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Hello Shirley,
Never a celebrity, just a man working in the job that he loved for 32 years...We all have to work for a living and this was better than 9-5 and I got to work with the best in the biz.
I am retired now (never say never) and am writing my story. I've got some on my web www.harryfielder.co.uk but still a long way to go....
Best wishes.....

Aitch,

Oh wow!!! A true celebrity then!!! Just seen you worked on the chinese detective!!! Wish they would put it back on. They showed a couple of episodes a few weeks ago on itv3 then nothing else!! What you doing these days or are you retired now?

Shirly, Imdb is where all actors have thier work stored. You can find anyone and even the silent movie stars...

[link] . You might have to copy and past..
When you find IMDB just put the name of the show or the actor at the top of the page and then enjoy....
You can also Google Harry Fielder.

Aitch,

harryfielder

I was lucky enough to work on some of the best 70s comedies and had a great time doing it.... see my IMDB.
Harry Fielder.

Harry , or Aitch as you sign yerself, what does IMDB ,mean??

I was lucky enough to work on some of the best 70s comedies and had a great time doing it.... see my IMDB.
Harry Fielder.

In reply to Jillywilly you can buy all the series' of Love Thy Neighbour from HMV or Play.com.

HI JillyWIlly, The only place I have seen a Love thy Neighbour video or dvd is in a shop in Fleetwood lancs. I agree with you about the rascism, it seems that today no one can take a joke of anything!! I mean if we cant laugh at ourselves then what can we laugh at?? I used to get called names as I have always been on the larger size shall we say but does anyone get taken to court!!! Seems to me that nowadays we are tooo scared to say what we want for fear of offending others. Lifes to short to be serious all the while..... lighten up and enjoy life is what I say cos youre a long time dead!!!

Yes, I agree with Shirley about Love Thy Neighbour and the political correct manner. But on the other hand, Love Thy Neighbour just shows how stupid it is to be racist! A real send-up of racism. But I do notice that it's hard to buy DVD's of Love Thy Neighbour and it's never shown on TV. Everything seems to be taken too seriously these days.
In the 70's there was a much more "fun" attitude to general life.

I am glad Jillywilly metioned Love thy Neighbour as I liked that even though i was quite young when it came on. I said in another forum that I wondered how it would go down today in the politically correct manner in which we have to live!!!!!

The 70's were definitely the best for comedy on TV. I love "On The Buses", I've got the whole collection on DVD and never tire of watching it.
Bless This House, Man About the House, Robin's Nest and Love Thy Neighbour - they don't make comedy like they used to. Only Fools & Horses is the best recent comedy as well as Vicar Of Dibley and Keeping Up Appearances. But the 70's were just the funniest.

The 70's is easily the best decade for Comedy.
Morecambe & Wise being my all time faveourite when it comes to comedy, but i have to congratulate every other sitcom that was shown during this amazing decade.

Being 15, i am a long "age" away from being able to watch them shows the first time, but thanks to DVD's and G.O.L.D i can watch these magic memories and build my own empire of true classic comedy!

Morecambe & Wise, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Steptoe & Son, Dad's army and Open all Hours

Just the best of my faveourites. I think it is obvious why the 70's is the best decade for REAL comedy!

Surprised there was no Dave Allen in the selected 30 e.g. the race for the last funeral plot in the cemetary (4/4/75).

If I think back over the moments that have had me splitting my sides, more have come from the 1970's than any other decade.

The biggest laugh that I recall from the 1970's, the very first time it was screened, was "Don't tell him Pike !" from Dads Army. That was a really well thought out use of ordinary everyday language. It is still a talking point 35 years later. I'm chuckling about it now, as I think of that scene.

Then we had Morecambe and Wise, with their wonderful song and Dance send-ups and, of course, their memorable Breakfast to the Stripper.

"Some Mothers do 'Ave em", was compulsive viewing, for its slapstick comedy. I don't think there was any significant bad language in it, but you knew exactly what Frank Spencers victims were feeling and thinking from their physical reactions and expressions. Much cleverer than what we see today.

And what about Dave Allens sketches. I really used to look forward to those, particularly those that featured Funerals !

We mustn't forget to mention Fawlty Towers, and the memorable episode with the Germans.

Norman Stanley Fletcher in Porridge was compulsive viewing and it is still popular today.

The Carry-on films were starting to go a bit too far in the 1970's, but there are still some fabulous laughs to look back on. Private Widdle in Carry-on up the Khyber was a funny enough name, but discovering much later in the film, just as we were getting used to the silly name, that his Christian name was James, Jimmy to his friends, was really good use of humour developed over an extended period. I haven't seen anybody get two laughs out of the same joke in the same sort of way for a very long time.

Monty Python had one or two sketches of pure genius, I'm thinking of the Dead Parrot, the Fish-slapping Dance, Ministry of Silly Walks and the LumberJack song, but most of it wasn't that funny really and was setting the scene for the dross that was served up as "alternative comedy" in the 1980's and beyond. It was all downhill after Monty Python. Comedians saw what they'd been able to get away with and tried to outdo them. The quality of humour on TV, generally speaking, has spiralled downwards since then. Shame. The 70's were undoubtedly the best overall.