Harry H. Corbett - Personal Life

Personal Life

Corbett married twice, first to the actress Sheila Steafel, and then to Maureen Blott, who bore him two children, one of whom, Susannah Corbett, is an actress best known for the role of Ellie Pascoe in the BBC's television adaptations of Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe detective novels. She has also written a biography of her father, Harry H. Corbett: The Front Legs of the Cow which was published in March 2012.

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