Stanley Baxter
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: May 24, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
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The Fast Lady
Overview: A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-14
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Very Important Person
Overview: Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-24
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Crooks Anonymous
Overview: A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-31
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Father Came Too!
Overview: When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-11
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Joey Boy
Overview: While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Overview: Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper
Overview: Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
Overview: Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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Stanley Baxter in Person
Overview: Documentary profile of Stanley Baxter featuring his first in-depth interview for forty years and extracts from his comedy series and specials. With contributions from Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry and Clive James.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Ooh the Banter!
Overview: Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-31
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Overview: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Geordie
Overview: Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Overview: Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-30
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