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Vestboy Started conversation Aug 20, 2008
As Harry Corbett had already registered his own name as an entertainer the other famous Harry Corbett had to use a middle initial - so Harry H Corbett was created, famous as the ever tormented son in Steptoe and Son and various other comedy programmes.
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Aug 20, 2008
for telling me that, but it would have been nice if you had told me in Peer Review.
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Vestboy Posted Aug 20, 2008
It might have been, but I didn't read the article in peer review.
It doesn't matter does it? 
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CRich70 Posted Aug 21, 2008
Interesting but certainly not unique. An actor by the name of Michael Douglas had to change his last name to Keaton for movie work as there was already a Michael Douglas working in Hollywood at the time. So the actor who played Batman in the 1989 movie is really Michael Douglas but goes by the name of Michael Keaton. 
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Aug 21, 2008
Vestboy
There must be other cases of that too
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CRich70 Posted Aug 22, 2008
I imagine there are, and actors whose names didn't match their hollywood image. I mean there was Marion Michael Morrison (John Wayne), Archibald Leach (Cary Grant), Roy Fitzgerald (Rock Hudson) and Emmanual Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson)just to name a few. One of my favorites is William Henry Pratt (Boris Karloff).
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