Dick Emery
Also Known As: Richard Gilbert Emery
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 19, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 02, 1983
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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

Overview: Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Baby Love

Overview: When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-19
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The Big Job

Overview: A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ooh...You Are Awful

Overview: Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss bank and after Charlie is released, is about to tell him where...when he is suddenly killed by Sid Sabbath's gang, whose girlfriend was dating the (now) deceased! The only leads are four tattoos on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail, but Sabbath is on Charlie's trail, and the tricked Italians have contracted the mob - to find the money, and then kill him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Loot

Overview: Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Thirty Miles an Hour

Overview: Short road safety film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Livin' Easy

Overview: Dick Emery and dance troupe The Young Generation invite you to "simply pay through Giro" in this musical money promo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Find the Lady

Overview: Two hoodlums, Trigger (Mickey Rooney) & Leo (Dick Emery) are hired by the unscrupulous J.K. (Peter Cook) to kidnap his niece Victoria (Alexandra Bastedo). The daughter of a wealthy businessman has been kidnapped, and the chief of police, under a lot of pressure to find her as soon as possible, assigns officers Kopek (John Candy) and Broom (Lawrence Dane) to track her down and bring her back safe and sound.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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River Rivals

Overview: Two families and their children are rivals in a forthcoming race for do-it-yourself boat builders. (7 episodes, each 14-21 minutes.)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Taste of Money

Overview: An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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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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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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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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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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Just for Fun

Overview: When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Yellow Submarine

Overview: The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
Genres: Music Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-17
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The Best Of Dick Emery

Overview: Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-11
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To See Such Fun

Overview: Compilation of classic British comedy moments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-01
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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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The Super Secret Service

Overview: Burlesque comedy dealing with "MI-15", the Super Secret Service, on the trail of a mysterious foreign spy named Q.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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