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Paul Harris (choreographer)
English choreographer
Paul Harris is an English choreographer, dance teacher and movement director in film, television and theatre.[1]
His notable works include the famous laser scenes for Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie Entrapment, the BAFTA Award-winning Bleak House and the wand fight sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. An interactive hologram of Harris is a permanent feature of the Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden where Harris is described by Warner Bros. as being "the world's only wand combat choreographer".[2][3]
In the theatre, he choreographed the 50th-anniversary production of John Osborne's The Entertainer at London's Old Vic. He is also an author of dance books, having written Salsa and Merengue – The Essential Step by Step Guide and several dance syllabi for British awarding bodies in dance. Harris is an acknowledged authority and leading choreographer[4] in historical dance, period dance, tango, salsa, swing dance, ballroom dancing, Latin American dancing and theatre dance. He is the winner of the 2008 Carl Alan Award for choreography.[5]
Early career
[edit]Born in St Helens, Harris began dancing at the age of eight and as a dancer, was a success
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Sheppey comedian, Paul Harris, who grew up in Medway, dies at Canterbury home after cancer diagnoses
Additional reporting by John Nurden
Tributes have been paid to a “wonderfully generous, talented and hilarious” comedian.
Paul Harris, a veteran panto dame who was born in Rochester and performed and lived on Sheppey, died on Friday (December 8) after being diagnosed with lung cancer two months ago.
He passed away at his home in Canterbury aged 80.
When he was first told of his condition in October he broke the news to friends on social media saying: “After 60 years in the entertainment business, I have been diagnosed with lung cancer.
“Two tumours that can be managed but not cured.”
Paul was born in Rochester, left Chatham House Grammar School at 15 and signed up as an apprentice wheelwright at Chatham Dockyard.
However, after realising he wasn’t cut out for that type of work he saw a panto advert on a bus and applied.
His first role was in Sinbad The Sailor at the Palace Theatre, Plymouth, in 1961.
After that, he appeared in pantomimes up and down the country, as a stand-up in clubs and theatres, and on BBC Radio Kent with his friend and fellow comic, the late Paul James.
The pair quickly became a hit as “the two Ps” hosting the Saturday Carry On with showbiz