Editing Terry Scott (section)

==Career==
Scott began his acting career with appearances on radio shows such as ''[[Workers' Playtime (radio programme)|Workers Playtime]]'', which were followed by appearances on television. He gained an opportunity to perform in [[farce]] when he joined the [[Whitehall farce|Whitehall Theatre Company]]. With [[Bill Maynard]] he appeared at [[Butlins|Butlin's Holiday Camp]] in [[Skegness]], [[Lincolnshire]] and partnered him in the TV series ''[[Great Scott - It's Maynard!]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1367370/index.html |title = BFI Screenonline: Scott, Terry (1927–1994) Biography}}</ref> During the 1960s he appeared alongside [[Hugh Lloyd]] in ''[[Hugh and I]]'' (1962–1967).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/16/television.television|last=Lloyd|first=Hugh|title=Much-loved comedy actor, he went on to more serious roles |newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 July 2008|access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref> They both appeared as Ugly Sisters in pantomime at The London Palladium; Scott reappeared in later years in the same role alongside [[Julian Orchard]]. Scott and Lloyd later appeared in ''[[Hugh and I Spy]]'' (1968) and, as [[gnome]]s, in the sitcom ''[[The Gnomes of Dulwich]]'' (1969).

Scott's novelty record "My Brother" (written by [[Mitch Murray]], and released in 1962 on [[Parlophone]]) was based on a schoolboy character (he dressed in school uniform to sing it on TV). In the 1970s he had a role in TV commercials for [[Curly Wurly]] caramel bars, in which he again appeared dressed as a schoolboy, with short trousers and cap. He repeated this performance several times on BBC TV's long-running variety show ''[[The Good Old Days (UK TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''. Scott had played a small role in the very first of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On films]]'' series of films, ''[[Carry On Sergeant]]'' in 1958. In 1968 he returned to the series with a role in ''[[Carry On Up the Khyber]]'' (1968), playing main roles in six of the later films.

Scott starred alongside <!-- Not a DBE until 2017. -->[[June Whitfield]] in several series of the comedy ''[[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|Happy Ever After]]'' and its successor ''[[Terry and June]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/11/june-whitfield-interview|title=June Whitfield Interview|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 December 2011|access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref> They had first worked together making a series of the sketch show ''Scott On'' (1968).<ref name="U"/> They also featured in supporting roles together (as a couple) in the film version of ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]''. Although both Scott and Whitfield made several ''Carry On'' appearances, they never appeared in the same film. From 1981 to 1992, Scott was the [[Voice actor|voice]] of [[Penfold (character)|Penfold]] the [[hamster]] in the [[animated series]] ''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]''.