Matthew Corbett
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Peter Graham Corbett (born 28 March 1948), also known as Matthew Corbett, is an English television writer and puppeteer best known for presenting The Sooty Show and later Sooty and Co.
He is the son of Sooty's creator, Harry Corbett.
In 1976, he took over Sooty from his father and then resigned in 1998.
Early life
Corbett was born in Guiseley, West Riding of Yorkshire, on March 28. Since there was already a Peter Corbett registered in the late 1960s, he had to choose another name when joining Equity. He retained his surname and went by first name Matthew, keeping the spelling throughout his television career.
Corbett appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Dmons (1971) as a character named Jones and was a regular performer and writer in the Thames Television children's show Rainbow, where he performed and wrote with Rod Burton and Jane Tucker as Rod, Jane and Roger, later known as Rod, Jane and Freddy.
Corbett, a retired father who was resigning, left Rainbow to take over The Sooty Show from his father Harry, who was retiring (he made a special guest appearance on Rainbow with Sooty in the episode "The VIP"). Corbett resigned in 1998 after 22 years, and Richard Cadell was drafted to replace him.
Personal life
Corbett has been out of public view since retiring in 1998. However, he returned to television in January 2008, presenting Locks and Quays, a regional interest programme on television in the ITV Granada area (North West England), taking a tour from east to west coast of England, including airways such as the River Humber, the Aire and Calder Navigation, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
On Sooty's 60th birthday in 2012, he said the bear was "in, or should I say, the right hands."
As shown on Locks and Quays, Corbett's great-uncle was the fish and chip shop chain owner Harry Ramsden.
Corbett contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and he died as a result of the disease but had to spend ten days in intensive care.
He and his wife now live in a retirement village in West Sussex.