Tom Clegg was an English actor, who had a number of small roles in film and television during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for appearing in a number of Carry On films, especially Carry On Screaming!, where he played the role of Oddbod.
Biography Born in Hackney, Clegg was first a member of the Household Cavalry. From 1937 to 1943, he was a professional boxer (using the name Tommy Clegg), taking part in 14 professional contests before getting into films as a stuntman in films such as Ivanhoe (1952).
His size and tough guy persona led to film roles, including The Flanagan Boy (1953), The Fake (1953), John of the Fair (1954), The Stateless Man (1955), The Extra Day (1956), Moby Dick (1956), The Hideout (1956), Saint Joan (1957), Battle of the V-1 (1958), Mark of the Phoenix (1958), This Sporting Life (1963) and Thunderball (1965).
He was also cast as a number of toughs and henchmen on television, including supporting turns in Quatermass II, Sword of Freedom, The Four Just Men, Dixon of Dock Green, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Saint and The Sweeney.
His appearances in comedy series include Hancock's Half Hour (The Cold, Football Pools, The Big Night and The Two Murderers), The Benny Hill Show, Corrigan Blake, and Till Death Us Do Part. Comedic film roles include Raising the Wind (1961), Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher, and Great Catherine (both 1968).
Clegg's comedy roles led him to become a semi-regular in the Carry On films, appearing in Carry On Regardless (1961), Carry On Spying (1964), Carry On Cleo (1964), Carry On Cowboy (1965) and Carry On Loving (1970). In the horror spoof Carry On Screaming (1966), he played the lumbering half-Frankenstein monster, half-werewolf Oddbod.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1953 The Flanagan Boy Tattooed Fighter Uncredited1953 Street of Shadows Removal man Uncredited1953 The Fake Thug Uncredited1954 John of the Fair Valdar 1954 Dangerous Cargo Thug Uncredited1955 One Way Out Thief at garage Uncredited1955 Scotland Yard (The Stateless Man) Fenton 1956 The Extra Day Slasher Smales 1956 The Hideout Vince 1956 Moby Dick Tashtego Uncredited1956 Zarak Mahmud Uncredited1956 The Hideout Vince 1958 Battle of the V-1 Anton 1958 Mark of the Phoenix Strong Man 1961 Carry On Regardless Massive Mickey McGee 1961 Raising the Wind Street Musician 1961 Offbeat Dropkick 1963 This Sporting Life Gower 1964 Carry On Spying Doorman 1964 Carry On Cleo Sosages 1965 Carry On Cowboy Blacksmith 1965 Thunderball Largo henchman Uncredited1966 Carry On Screaming Oddbod 1968 Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher Fourth Warder 1968 Great Catherine Mongol Uncredited1968 The Fiction Makers Monk 1970 Carry On Loving Trainer (final film role)
References
External links