Wilfrid Brambell
Also Known As: Wilfred Brambell, Wilfred Bramble
Biography: Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: March 22, 1912
Deathday: January 18, 1985
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Gender: Male
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A Hard Day's Night
Overview: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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Steptoe & Son
Overview: Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Witchfinder General
Overview: England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-17
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In Search of the Castaways
Overview: Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Death and Transfiguration
Overview: A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-22
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The Terence Davies Trilogy
Overview: In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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Holiday on the Buses
Overview: Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-19
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Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Overview: Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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Crooks in Cloisters
Overview: Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Some Will, Some Won't
Overview: Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Another Shore
Overview: A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Where the Bullets Fly
Overview: In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-06
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San Ferry Ann
Overview: A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge and Joan Sims) create chaos from the moment they set their tires on the shore resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarme, while Lewd Grandad (Wilfred Brambell) finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend, a mad German ex-soldier (Ron Moody). Also aboard for the ride is a saucy hitchhiker (Barbara Windsor) who causes a few heads to turn including that of a fellow traveller (Ronnie Stevens) who pursues her affection with comic results. By the end of this weekend the French may well be wishing to say 'au revoir' to these trouble-making tourists. San Ferry Ann is a humorous take on the tradition of the British get-away. A classic sound effect comedy that sits with the likes of similarly praised titles such as 'The Plank', 'Futtock's End' and 'Rhubarb Rhubarb'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Captured
Overview: Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Urge to Kill
Overview: A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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The Salvage Gang
Overview: Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Overview: Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
Genres: Romance Drama History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young ward, Cecily. And he intends to propose to Gwendolyn--that is until he discovers that she loves him because his name is Ernest.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-15
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The Sinister Man
Overview: When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Boys
Overview: A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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What a Whopper
Overview: A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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Cry WoIf
Overview: A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a dangerous situation.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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High Rise Donkey
Overview: The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by providing a temporary stable for the donkey in the block of high-rise flats.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Lionheart
Overview: A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Go Kart Go
Overview: Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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Catch Me a Spy
Overview: While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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Serious Charge
Overview: Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-30
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Overview: A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Flame in the Streets
Overview: Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-19
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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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The Island of Adventure
Overview: Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Break-In
Overview: A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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Carry On Again Doctor
Overview: Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Odd Man Out
Overview: Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-30
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