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Ooh… You Are Awful
''Ooh... You Are Awful'' is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen. It is a feature-length adaptation of ''The Dick Emery Show''. It starred Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser and Cheryl Kennedy. Its alternative title on its North American release was ''Get Charlie Tully''. It was Emery's sole starring vehicle. Before his death, Reggie Campbell Peek deposited a stolen £500,000 into a Swiss bank account. But Peek left a record of the account number: the digits tattooed on the bottoms of four young women, none of whom knows the value of her asset. His friend and partner-in-crime Charlie Tully, using his talent as a "master of disguise", sets out to locate those women and gain sight of the digits. Meanwhile, Tully is being watched by other - more dangerous - criminals. Plot summary Conmen Charlie Tully and Reggie Peek have successfully conned a couple of Italian men, and are making an easy escape with £500,000. Flushed with success, Tully is unable to resist ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Owen
Cliff Owen (22 April 1919 – November 1993) was a British film and TV director best known for his comedy ''The Wrong Arm of the Law'' which starred Peter Sellers. He also directed two of the three films, made in the mid-1960s, featuring the double act Morecambe and Wise, and the big-screen version of the BBC sitcom, ''Steptoe and Son''. Owen was born in London. He died in Oxfordshire in November 1993 aged 74. Selected filmography *'' Brighton Rock'' (1947) - 3rd assistant director *''Noose'' (1947) - 2nd assistant director *''Under Capricorn'' (1949) - 2nd assistant director *''The Hasty Heart'' (1949) - 3rd assistant director *''Landfall'' (1949) - 2nd assistant director *''The Magic Box'' (1951) - assistant director *''Young Wives' Tale'' (1951) - 2nd assistant director *'' Castle in the Air'' (1952) - assistant director *''Father's Doing Fine'' (1952) - assistant director *'' The Yellow Balloon'' (1953) - assistant director *''Valley of Song'' (1953) - assistant director *''Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Louis Negin
Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011. Career Born in London, England, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Negin had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series ''First Performance'', and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthrie's 1957 film of the Stratford Festival production of ''Oedipus Rex''. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of '' Tamburlaine'', which had a run on Broadway in 1956,Louis Negin at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. and later appeared in London productions of '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' and his own play '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Plytas
Phokion Stavros Plytas, known professionally as Steve Plytas (9 January 1913 – 27 December 1994), was a Greek film and television actor based in the United Kingdom. His stage work included West End appearances in Tennessee Williams' ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1965) and Agatha Christie's ''The Mousetrap'' (1970s). Credited film roles include '' Passport to Shame'', ''Beyond the Curtain'', ''The Moon-Spinners'', '' The Spy Who Came In from the Cold'', ''Theatre of Death'', ''Interlude'', '' Ooh... You Are Awful'', ''Silver Bears'', '' Revenge of the Pink Panther'', ''Carry On Emmannuelle'', '' The Bitch'', '' Eleni'', '' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'' and ''Batman''. TV credits include: '' The Avengers'', ''Danger Man'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''The Saint'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''The Tenth Planet''), ''Z-Cars'', ''The Champions'', '' Department S'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Man About the House'', ''Fawlty Towers'', ''Who Pays the Ferryman?'', '' The Professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Healy (actor)
David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor and singer who appeared in Television in the United Kingdom, British and Television in the United States, American television shows. Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include Voice acting, voices for the Supermarionation series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', ''Joe 90'' and ''The Secret Service'', as well as parts in ''UFO (TV series), UFO'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''Strange Report'', ''Dickens of London'', ''Space Precinct'', and ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas''. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of ''The Sign of Four (1983 film), The Sign of Four''. His big screen credits include ''The Double Man (1967 film), The Double Man'' (1967), ''Only When I Larf (film), Only When I Larf'' (1968), ''Assignment K'' (1968), ''Isadora (film), Isadora'' (1968), ''Patton (film), Patton'' (1970), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Oulton
Brian Oulton (11 February 1908 – 13 April 1992) was an English character actor. Biography Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, Oulton made his acting debut in 1939 as a lead actor. During the Second World War he served in the British Army, and returned to acting playing character roles in 1946; he made a name for himself playing the same pompous character in numerous films, ranging from '' Last Holiday'' (1950) to ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985). Many of his film roles were in comedies, and he went on to appear in several ''Carry On'' films. In 1969, he appeared as an eccentric psychic medium in ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' in the episode "Never Trust a Ghost"; as a hypochondriac GP in '' Doctor at Large''; and in the 1981 hit serial ''Brideshead Revisited''. He was also a stage actor and playwright, writing and starring in productions such as ''Births, Marriages and Deaths'' (1975), and ''For Entertainment Only'' (1976). Brian Oulton's radio credits include the role of Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Ambrosine Phillpotts (13 September 1912 – 12 October 1980) was a British actress of theatre, TV, radio and film. ''The Times'' wrote, "She was one of the last great stage aristocrats, a stylish comedienne best known for playing on stage and screen a succession of increasingly 'grandes dames' with an endearing mixture of Edwardian snobbery and eccentric absent-mindedness". Partial filmography * '' This Man Is Mine'' (1946) - Lady Daubney * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) - Lady Fielding * '' The Franchise Affair'' (1951) - Miss Spence * ''Happy Go Lovely'' (1951) - Lady Martin * ''Mr. Denning Drives North'' (1952) - Miss Blade * '' Angels One Five'' (1952) - Mother at Party (uncredited) * '' Stolen Face'' (1952) - Miss Patten - Fur Department Clerk * ''Father's Doing Fine'' (1952) - Nurse Pynegar (uncredited) * '' The Captain's Paradise'' (1953) - Marjorie (with the major) * '' Aunt Clara'' (1954) - Sylvia Levington (uncredited) * ''The Adventures of Quentin Durward'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Goddard
Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950) professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.Before 1 April 1974 Smethwick was in Staffordshire She is the daughter of David Goddard (1925–1992), who produced and directed numerous TV shows and programmes. She attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before her father moved the family to Australia, when she was 15, upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Career Goddard made early television appearances in Australia, including episode 100 of ''Homicide'' ("The Traveller", 1966), and the ABC drama play ''Romanoff & Juliet'' (1967), and a brief (non-speaking, uncredited) appearance in the feature film ''They're A Weird Mob'' (1966). However, she is best remembered in Australia for her role as Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick in '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Curram
Roland Curram (born 1932) is an English actor and novelist. Curram was educated at Brighton College and has had a long film, television and theatre career. His appearances include Julie Christie's travelling companion in her Oscar-winning film '' Darling'' and expatriate Freddie in the BBC soap opera ''Eldorado''. In 1979, he played Brian Pilbeam in the first series of ''Terry and June''. The Pilbeams were Terry and June's annoying neighbours until the Sprys moved in. He also starred as Harold Perkins in the acclaimed BBC TV series ''Big Jim and the Figaro Club'' which was broadcast in July and August 1981. He was married from 1964 until 1985 to the actress Sheila Gish, with whom he had two daughters, the actors Lou Gish (1967–2006) and Kay Curram (born 1974). Curram came out as gay in the early 1990s, and has since left acting to carve out a second career as a novelist. Selected filmography * ''Up to His Neck'' (1954) * ''The Admirable Crichton'' (1957) * ''Dunkirk'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Bird
John George Norman Bird (30 October 1924 – 22 April 2005) was an English character actor. Early life Bird was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England. A RADA graduate, he made his West End theatre, West End debut in Peter Brook's production of ''The Winter's Tale'' at the Phoenix Theatre in 1951. He was also a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company."Radio and audio book companies", in Lloyd Trott, ed., ''Actors and Performers Yearbook 2016'', pp. 353-354 His first film appearance was as the foreman in ''An Inspector Calls'' (1954). Film career He was a familiar face to British cinema audiences of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in nearly 50 films such as ''The Angry Silence'' (1960), ''The League of Gentlemen (film), The League of Gentlemen'' (1960), ''Whistle Down the Wind (film), Whistle Down the Wind'' (1961), ''Victim (1961 film), Victim'' (1961) and ''Term of Trial'' (1962) with Laurence Olivier and The Hill (film), The Hill with Sean Connery (1965). Television a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Franklyn
William Leo Franklyn (22 September 1925 – 31 October 2006) was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from Peter Jones as "The Book" (the narrator) in the third, fourth and fifth radio series of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. He is also known for his portrayal of Sexton Blake for BBC Radio 4 in 1967. Early life Franklyn was born in Kensington into an acting family: his maternal grandfather, Arthur Rigby, Sr and uncle, Arthur Rigby, Jr, mother, Mary Rigby, and father, Leo Franklyn, were all actors. He was taken to Australia as a baby, where his father toured with musical comedies. The young Franklyn attended Wesley and Haileybury Colleges, both in Melbourne, and developed an abiding love of cricket. He later trialled as a fast bowler for Essex, and opened the bowling for the Stage Cricket Club. He also became a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Coombs
Patricia Doreen Coombs (27 August 1926 – 25 May 2002) was an English actress. She specialised in the portrayal of the eternal downtrodden female, comically under the thumb of stronger personalities. She was known for many roles on radio, film and television sitcoms and Children's ITV's '' Playbox'' and ''Ragdolly Anna''. Her authorised biography, written by Andrew Ross, was published in 2021. Early life Born in Camberwell, South London, Coombs was one of three children; her father worked in insurance for the Employers' Liability, the forerunner of Commercial Union. Coombs attended the County School for Girls in Beckenham, Kent. After leaving school, she began her working life as a student kindergarten teacher, but soon a keenness to act prompted her to take drama lessons during the Second World War with her friend and neighbour Vivien Merchant. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
