Bruce Lacey
Biography: Bruce Lacey was a British artist, performer and eccentric. After completing his national service in the Navy he became established on the avant-garde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. He has been closely associated with The Alberts performance group and The Goon Show. He made the props and had an acting part in Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1927
Deathday: February 18, 2016
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The Alberts’ Channel Too
1964-04-21
The Alberts’ Channel Too
Overview: The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre show, ‘An Evening of British Rubbish’. It’s Rubbish, but by Jingo – it’s British Rubbish!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-21
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959-10-31
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Overview: A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-31
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968-09-11
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Overview: Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Just Like a Woman
1967-02-26
Just Like a Woman
Overview: Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-26
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The Preservation Man
1962-05-20
The Preservation Man
Overview: The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into his art with their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum, preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend a quarter of an hour in Lacey's amiable company.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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The Bruce Lacey Experience
2012-01-02
The Bruce Lacey Experience
Overview: A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Everybody's Nobody
1960-01-01
Everybody's Nobody
Overview: Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Agib and Agab
1953-01-01
Agib and Agab
Overview: Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks forward to FLAMING CREATURES and other underground movies from the 60s that merge lush fantasy with grimy reality. Art director Bruce Lacey stars as the ghoulish witch doctor who brings a dead body back to life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Battle of New Orleans
1960-01-01
Battle of New Orleans
Overview: Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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One Man Band
1965-01-01
One Man Band
Overview: An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Uncle's Tea Party
1962-01-01
Uncle's Tea Party
Overview: A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Head in Shadow
1952-07-01
Head in Shadow
Overview: A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of Camden and Islington.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
1974-10-08
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
Overview: A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Double Exposure
1975-01-05
Double Exposure
Overview: '.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-05
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How to Have a Bath
1971-01-05
How to Have a Bath
Overview: An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-05
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Kissing Film
1967-01-05
Kissing Film
Overview: An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-05
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The Lacey Rituals
1973-01-05
The Lacey Rituals
Overview: Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely interesting and funny. So I decided to make that film myself. All the members of the family wrote down all the different day-to-day things that they wanted to be seen doing.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-05
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The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
1965-01-01
The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
Overview: The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits of this film, both with their own distinct ending.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Humanoid Race
1965-01-01
The Humanoid Race
Overview: Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Castlerigg
1981-01-01
Castlerigg
Overview: Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Breaking Away to Come Together
1984-01-01
Breaking Away to Come Together
Overview: Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into that of a woman. Like archetypal statues, the images disintegrate, solidify and slowly re-assemble.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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British Landing on the Moon
1973-01-01
British Landing on the Moon
Overview: The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Heads, Bodies and Legs
1973-01-01
Heads, Bodies and Legs
Overview: Experimental cutout piece
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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If I Had a Talking Picture of You
2002-01-01
If I Had a Talking Picture of You
Overview: Bruce Lacey performance
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Stella Chase
1974-01-01
Stella Chase
Overview: A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema techniques turn it into something truly beautiful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Flying Alberts
1963-01-01
The Flying Alberts
Overview: The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits to this film, both with their distinct ending. The other version is edited by Bruce Lacey and is four minutes shorter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value
1961-09-05
Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value
Overview: Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy actor Mario Fabrizi, who died 18 months later, aged just 38.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-05
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The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
1962-11-01
The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
Overview: A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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It's Trad, Dad!
1962-03-30
It's Trad, Dad!
Overview: The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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Help!
1965-07-29
Help!
Overview: An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits
1987-01-01
The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits
Overview: A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Smashing Time
1967-12-20
Smashing Time
Overview: Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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L'art pour l'art
1966-01-01
L'art pour l'art
Overview: Art for art's sake.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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