Victoria Wood
Biography: From Wikipedia Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanied on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life, and included references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes. She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently worked with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie. Victoria Wood died on 20 April 2016 after a short battle with cancer. She was 62.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 19, 1953
Deathday: April 20, 2016
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Ballet Shoes
2008-08-26
Ballet Shoes
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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The Wind in the Willows
1996-10-16
The Wind in the Willows
Overview: Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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Housewife, 49
2006-12-10
Housewife, 49
Overview: Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-10
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Personal View: Victoria Wood
1985-05-09
Personal View: Victoria Wood
Overview: Victoria Wood discusses her career and her writing, and gives a glimpse of life backstage on her comedy tour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-09
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The Borrowers
2011-12-25
The Borrowers
Overview: Family adventure based on Mary Norton's classic children's books about a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards, resourcefully surviving by borrowing bits and pieces from the large residents who dwell above. After being discovered by 'human beans', borrower Arrietty and her parents are forced to leave their home while attempting to evade the clutches of obsessive scientist Professor Mildeye.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Eric & Ernie
2011-01-01
Eric & Ernie
Overview: Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016-05-14
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
Overview: Friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular Victoria Wood, who died of cancer in April 2016 at age 62. Victoria wrote some of television's greatest comedy sketches and musicals, won two BAFTAs for her drama Housewife, 49, and was once voted by the British public as the person they would most like to have as their next door neighbour.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-14
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Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays
2009-12-30
Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays
Overview: Victoria Wood delves into the making of her Mid-Life Christmas, with behind the scenes footage from sketches including Lark Pies to Cranchesterford and the Midlife Olympics. The making of Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-30
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Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28
Parkinson at 50
Overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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Pat and Margaret
1994-09-11
Pat and Margaret
Overview: Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-11
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Talent
1979-08-04
Talent
Overview: A play with music by Victoria Wood. Julie (Julie Walters) is a young woman seeking escape, with the help of her frumpish friend Maureen (Wood) she prepares for her singing debut at a seedy Manchester club's talent show.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
2000-05-27
Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
Overview: Victoria Wood presents the true story behind Britain's timeless comedy. Includes footage of the cast on location and incredible personal tales about the making of the series. Was Arthur Lowe really just like Captain Mainwaring? Why did the warden always end up in the water? And how did Corporal Jones find a bomb down his trousers? Find out why Dad's Army was the Queen Mother's favourite show.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988-12-10
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Overview: British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch her crack jokes, play the piano and answer light-hearted questions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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Not Now Bernard
1991-10-01
Not Now Bernard
Overview: Bernard's got a problem: he's found a monster in the back garden but his mum and dad are just too busy to notice. So Bernard tries to befriend the monster… and that doesn't go quite to plan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Acorn Antiques
1987-12-18
Acorn Antiques
Overview: Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity announcer played by Susie Blake, Acorn Antiques was a mini soap opera set in a shop on the outskirts of Manchesterford. Viewers were gripped with the everyday dramas that beset Miss Babs (Celia Imrie), Berta (Victoria Wood) and the glamorous Mrs Overall (Julie Walters). Now each thrilling episode is available together for the first time on DVD, including "Babs and the Cup of Coffee", "Mrs Overall and her Apron" and the memorable classic "Berta coming through the Doorway". Re-live the drama as Mrs Overall serves up another batch of macaroons and Babs discusses the future of the shop. What will be this week's riveting cliff hanger? Will the set survive? Written by Victoria Wood, Acorn Antiques was Produced and Directed by Geoff Posner and first transmitted as part of Victoria Wood as Seen on TV… in January 1985.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982-03-01
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011-01-01
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Overview: A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Victoria Wood: Sold Out
1991-01-01
Victoria Wood: Sold Out
Overview: A live performance of the comedienne from 1991. Starting out on the working mens' club circuit, Victoria Wood graduated to performing her one-woman act in the country's biggest theatres. This show at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton features her usual mix of observational comedy and songs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Fungus The Bogeyman
2015-12-27
Fungus The Bogeyman
Overview: Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door comes to life on Sky 1. Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes star
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-27
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Victoria Wood - Live
1997-11-13
Victoria Wood - Live
Overview: Over half a million people packed into over 200 venues throughout the country during 1997 to see her best show ever. This tour included an unprecedented fifteen night sell-out run at the Royal Albert Hall, which the media hailed as the best stand-up show of the decade. With her cheek, charm and dazzling wordplay, she reduced her audience to a state of delerium. Recorded during her record-breaking tour, Victoria Wood Live is your opportunity to see the queen of humour at her most brilliant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-13
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Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009-12-24
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Overview: This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-24
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000-12-25
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Overview: The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Comedians Do It On Stage
1986-02-01
Comedians Do It On Stage
Overview: A Group of Britain's top comedy and music performers gather at a London Theater, to give their support to the Oncology Club Fund. The Fund is a charitable organization which provides training for young doctors in the practical day to day care of patients with cancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Victoria at the Albert - Live
2002-11-25
Victoria at the Albert - Live
Overview: Victoria Wood seen performing live at her sold-out show in the Albert Hall using her usual anecdotal humour and amusing songs to cheer the huge audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-25
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Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014-12-26
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
Overview: That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film she wrote and directed, and also looks at the real events which inspired her story. She goes back to Manchester to find out about the original choir of the 1920s, and the children who sang on the record of Nymphs and Shepherds. And in between unpeeling the history and sharing the fun of the shoot, she tries to work out how a piece of writing can evolve. Victoria unpicks the process in an attempt to understand how what started as a straightforward account of a day in the life of a children's choir in 1929 ended up as a middle-aged love story about the power of music to reconnect lonely people and give them a second chance to fall in love.
Genres: TV Movie Music Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-26
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Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992-12-25
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Overview: A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show to be hosted by a popular husband-and-wife team. There are tips on female problems like seriously split ends, calorie reports, keep-fit with Jolly Polly, Agony Uncle Gerard's phone-in and Britain's first four times daily soap, set in a cosy corner of a shopping mall.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home
1994-12-25
Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home
Overview: Filmed at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1994, the much loved comedienne presents a special show featuring stand up, monologues and sketches in her own inimitable style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Dying Laughing
2017-02-24
Dying Laughing
Overview: The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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The Angina Monologues
2010-12-10
The Angina Monologues
Overview: Victoria Wood takes to the stage with an all female bill for a night of comedy in support of The British Heart Foundation to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Happy Since I Met You
1981-08-08
Happy Since I Met You
Overview: A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Nearly a Happy Ending
1980-05-31
Nearly a Happy Ending
Overview: A play by Victoria Wood. Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months. Now the weeks of endless crispbreads have paid off - but is her optimism misplaced? Sequel to Wood's earlier play Talent, featuring the same characters of lifelong friends Maureen and Julie.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-31
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Julie Walters and Friends
1991-12-29
Julie Walters and Friends
Overview: Julie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006-03-13
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
Overview: Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End production brought together Julie Walters (Mrs Overall), Celia Imrie (Miss Babs) and Duncan Preston (Mr Clifford) - the original cast of the series. It was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn ("Les Miserables", "Woman in White", "Starlight Express") and written by Julie's understudy, the award-winning Victoria Wood. Filmed during the sell-out run at the beautiful Haymarket Theatre, the musical features an all-star supporting cast of Josie Lawrence, Neil Morrissey & Sally Ann Triplett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-13
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005-06-03
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Overview: The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
2020-11-30
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
Overview: A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-30
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Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea
2013-04-10
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea
Overview: Comedy legend Victoria Wood travels the globe to explore Britain's love affair with tea in a two part special on the little plant that changed the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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