Cardew Robinson
Also Known As: Douglas John Cardew Robinson
Biography: Douglas John Cardew Robinson (14 August 1917 – 28 December 1992) was a British comic, whose craft was rooted in the music hall and Gang Shows.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 14, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 28, 1992
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Carry On Up the Khyber
Overview: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-12
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Three Bites of the Apple
Overview: A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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The Nine Ages of Nakedness
Overview: A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-01
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The Navy Lark
Overview: An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Hoverbug
Overview: The young inventors Dick and Jenny Brewster, build their own 'Hoverbug' and hope to win the race which has been organised for home-made Hovercraft, but their arch rivals, Charlie and Sydney, bend the rules by enlisting professional help and by employing devious means to sabotage the Hoverbug.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-01
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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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A French Mistress
Overview: The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-25
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Light Up the Sky!
Overview: Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Overview: Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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Calling All Cars
Overview: Comedy documentary centring on the Dover Harbour car terminal.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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What's Up Nurse
Overview: When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Come Play with Me
Overview: Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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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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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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Shirley Valentine
Overview: Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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Where's Jack?
Overview: Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
Genres: Adventure Crime History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Ladies Who Do
Overview: The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-01
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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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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Alfie
Overview: A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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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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I Was Happy Here
Overview: Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Three on a Spree
Overview: A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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Hair of the Dog
Overview: Fred Tickle is commissionaire at a razor blade factory, and grows a beard after developing a shaving rash, but his new appearance doesn't go down well with management.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-19
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The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time
Overview: When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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