Eric Sykes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: 'Eric Sykes' started as a radio scriptwriter but he soon found he could perform as well as write. The slight handicap of being very hard of hearing doesn't interfere with his wonderful comic timing. The spectacles he wears have no lenses but contain a bone conducting hearing aid.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: May 04, 1923
Deathday: July 04, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Overview: When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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The Others
Overview: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-02
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Overview: In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-16
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The Liquidator
Overview: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Overview: Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-28
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Shalako
Overview: Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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The Plank
Overview: A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers
Overview: With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long and successful career in the theatre, on radio and television. He pays tribute to his friends in showbusiness and in particular to Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and the team of his long-running Sykes series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-10
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The Bargee
Overview: After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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It's Your Move
Overview: A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes. It features an all-star cast including Tommy Cooper, Bernard Cribbins, Jimmy Edwards, Irene Handl, Bob Todd and Andrew Sachs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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Watch Your Stern
Overview: When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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Orders Are Orders
Overview: An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Tommy the Toreador
Overview: Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing a VERY angry bull and cheered on by the crowd. What will he do now?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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The Plank
Overview: Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-17
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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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The Big Screen
Overview: Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, hopes and risks experienced by those involved with the movie industry. The Big Screen follows the production of four British films: the eighth James Bond film Live and Let Die, The Optimists of Nine Elms, science fiction-thriller The Final Programme and The 14. Actors Peter Sellers, David Hemmings, Jon Finch, Roger Moore and Jenny Runacre are among those seen at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-20
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Overview: A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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One Way Pendulum
Overview: A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-21
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Village of Daughters
Overview: A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-13
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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The Big Freeze
Overview: A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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The Spy with a Cold Nose
Overview: A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-19
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Kill or Cure
Overview: A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Overview: During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and the vicar's into hazardous ones. when the vicar discovers this he prays for divine intervention which turns the tables.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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Rotten to the Core
Overview: Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Mavis and the Mermaid
Overview: A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Three Sisters
Overview: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-13
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Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Overview: Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
Overview: Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Entertaining the Troops
Overview: Documentary telling the story of the ENSA performers who kept up the troops' morale during World War II, with contributions from Dame Vera Lynn, Eric Sykes and Tony Benn.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-20
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Charley Moon
Overview: A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Gabrielle and the Doodleman
Overview: A wheelchair bound little girl gets involved with characters from her computer game that help her though a difficult time.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute
Overview: One of many tributes following the death of Spike Milligan. Comedians, actors and musicians join forces to present a live tribute featuring a selection of comic highlights from Spike's life. From recreations of his most famous sketches to readings of Milligan's own poems and extracts from his controversial wartime memoirs, these are all interspersed with archive film clips of the great man himself, showcasing his inimitable comic genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
Overview: Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts from his classic TV series. The guests include Penny Meredith, Eric Sykes, Henry Cooper and Norman Rossington.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Absolute Beginners
Overview: A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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The Boys in Blue
Overview: Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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Splitting Heirs
Overview: A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Mr. H Is Late
Overview: A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-15
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Rhubarb
Overview: A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Overview: A documentary about Spike Milligan
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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A Tribute to Tommy Cooper
Overview: A retrospective of the comedy genius of Tommy Cooper, with tributes from the likes of Eamonn Andrews, Ronnie Barker, Max Bygraves, Cannon & Ball, Jim Davidson, Benny Hill, Eric Sykes and Mike Yarwood
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-16
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Charley's Aunt
Overview: Eric Sykes stars in his own adaptation of the world famous stage play Charley's Aunt. When Donna Lucia is unable to chaperone Amy and Kitty to lunch, Charley and Jack must find somebody to act as Donna Lucia if the girls they love are to attend their tea party. Anybody will do, which means the farce has only just begun...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-29
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