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==Selected works== ===Singles=== * "[[On with the Motley]]" ([[Vesti la giubba]]) (1955) UK #6 * "[[Bless This House (song)|Bless This House]]" * "[[If I Ruled the World]]" (1963) UK #18 * "[[This Is My Song (1967 song)|This Is My Song]]" (1967) UK #2<ref name="Singles">''[[Guinness Book of British Hit Singles]]'', 7th ed., 1989</ref> ===Albums=== * ''Sacred Songs'' (1962) UK #16 * ''Pickwick'' (Original Cast Album) (1965) * ''Secombe's Personal Choice'' (1967) UK #6 * ''If I Ruled the World'' (1971) UK #17 * ''The Magnificent Voice of Harry Secombe'' (1972) AUS #14<ref name=aus/> * ''With a Song In My Heart'' (1977) AUS #24<ref name=aus/> * ''Captain Beaky and His Band'' (1977)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.captainbeaky.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Itemid=60 |title=Captain Beaky – Beaky Happenings! |access-date=2007-05-15 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608113136/http://www.captainbeaky.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Itemid=60 |archive-date=8 June 2007}}</ref> * ''Bless This House: 20 Songs of Joy'' (1978) UK #8, AUS #28<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=267}}</ref> * ''This Is My Song'' (1983) AUS #9<ref name=aus/> * ''All Things Bring and Beautiful'' (1983) AUS #31<ref name=aus/> * ''Songs for Everyone'' (1986) AUS #43<ref name=aus/> * ''Highway of Life'' (1986) UK #45 * ''Count Your Blessings'' (1988) AUS #93<ref name=aus/> * ''Yours Sincerely'' (1991) UK #46<ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web |title=Harry Secombe |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2786/harry-secombe/ |website=Official Charts |access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Albums">''Guinness Book of British Hit Albums'' 1st ed., 1983 {{ISBN|0-85112-246-9}}</ref> ===Books=== ====Fiction==== * ''[[Twice Brightly]]'' (1974) Robson Books {{ISBN|0903895234}} * ''Welsh Fargo'' (1981) Robson Books {{ISBN|0903895870}} ====Children's==== * '' Katy and the Nurgla'' (1980) {{ISBN|0140311890}} ====Autobiographical==== * ''Goon for Lunch'' (1975) M. J. Hobbs {{ISBN|0718112830}} * ''Goon Abroad'' (1982) Robson Books {{ISBN|0860511936}} * ''Arias and Raspberries'' (1989) Robson Books {{ISBN|0860516245}} * ''Strawberries and Cheam'' (1998) Robson Books {{ISBN|1861050488}} * {{citation |year=2001 |title=An Entertaining Life |series=Foreword by [[HRH]] [[Charles, Prince of Wales]] |place= London |publisher=[[Robson Books]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLmlEAvqwrYC&q=harry+secombe |access-date=24 August 2010 |isbn= 1-86105-471-8}} Alternative ISBNs for 2004 publication: {{ISBN|978-1-86105-811-9}}; {{ISBN|1-86105-811-X}} (paperback). ===Partial filmography=== {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;" ! style="width:30px;"|Year ! style="width:150px;"|Title ! style="width:100px;"|Role ! style="width:100px;"|Director ! |Co-stars ! style="width:150px;"|Notes |- | 1949 | ''[[Helter Skelter (1949 film)|Helter Skelter]]'' | Alf | [[Ralph Thomas]] | | Uncredited |- | 1951 | ''[[Penny Points to Paradise]]'' | Harry Flakers | [[Tony Young (director)|Tony Young]] | | |- | 1952 | ''[[Down Among the Z Men]]'' | Harry Jones | [[Maclean Rogers]] | | |- | 1953 |''[[Forces' Sweetheart (film)|Forces' Sweetheart]]'' | Harry Llewellyn | [[Maclean Rogers]] | | |- | 1954 |''[[Svengali (1954 film)|Svengali]]'' |Barizel |[[Noel Langley]] |[[Hildegard Knef]], [[Donald Wolfit]], [[Terence Morgan]] | |- | 1957 |''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' |Davy Morgan |[[Michael Relph]] |[[Ron Randell]], [[Susan Shaw]], [[Alexander Knox]] | |- | 1959 |''[[Jet Storm]]'' |Binky Meadows |[[Cy Endfield]] |[[Richard Attenborough]], [[Stanley Baker]] | |- | 1968 |''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' | Mr. Bumble | [[Carol Reed]] | | |- | 1969 |''[[The Bed Sitting Room (film)|The Bed Sitting Room]]'' | Shelter Man | [[Richard Lester]] | | |- |1969 |''[[Pickwick (1969 film)|Pickwick]]'' | [[The Pickwick Papers|Mr. Pickwick]] | [[Terry Hughes (director)|Terry Hughes]] | [[Roy Castle]], [[Hattie Jacques]] | |- |1970 |''[[Doctor in Trouble]]'' | Llewellyn Wendover | [[Ralph Thomas]] | | |- | 1970 |''[[Song of Norway (film)|Song of Norway]]'' | {{nowrap|[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]}} | [[Andrew L. Stone]] | | |- |1971 | {{nowrap|''[[The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins]]''}} |Stanley |[[Graham Stark]] | |(segment "Envy") |- | 1972 |''[[Sunstruck]]'' | Stanley Evans | [[James Gilbert (producer)|James Gilbert]] | | |- |}
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