Max Miller

Max Miller

Born: November 21, 1894
Died: May 7, 1963
in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
From Wikipedia

Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963), best known by his stage name Max Miller and also known as 'The Cheeky Chappie', was a British front-cloth comedian who was probably the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation. He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors.

Movies for Max Miller...

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Title: Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 16, 1989
Type: Movie
A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec McCowen, Tommy Trinder , Max Wall, Bernie Winters and Max Miller 'I'm ready for bed - anybody?' Max Miller , dazzling in chintz and gaudy plus-fours, one foot on the footlights, leering and howling with delight, confronted his audience. Sexual innuendo was his game. He trod a dangerous line, just this side of respectability, across the Music Halls of the 30s and 40s. On the stage of the Hackney Empire, with chorus girls and full supporting acts, Gerald Scarfe re-creates Max Miller 's rise from the back streets of Brighton to the top of the bill. The most outrageous comedian of his day, Max was banned by the BBC, in trouble over the Royal Command Performance, admired and hated by the comics of his age - and ours
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Title: Wogan
Character: Self (archive material)
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: TV
Wogan is a British television chat show
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Asking for Trouble
Title: Asking for Trouble
Character: Dick Smith
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiancé, a big game hunter from Africa. Comedy.
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Hoots Mon
Title: Hoots Mon
Character: Harry Hawkins
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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Thank Evans
Title: Thank Evans
Character: Educated Evans
Released: October 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
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Don't Get Me Wrong
Title: Don't Get Me Wrong
Character: Wellington Lincoln
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
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Educated Evans
Title: Educated Evans
Character: Educated Evans
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
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Get Off My Foot
Title: Get Off My Foot
Character: Herbert Cronk
Released: November 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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Things Are Looking Up
Title: Things Are Looking Up
Character: Joey
Released: June 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
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Princess Charming
Title: Princess Charming
Character: Walter Chuff aka Sam
Released: April 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Joe
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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Channel Crossing
Title: Channel Crossing
Character: James
Released: October 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Millbrau
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.