Duggie Brown

Duggie Brown

Born: August 7, 1940
Died: August 16, 2022
in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Duggie Brown...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Title: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Character: Dog Walker
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
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Funny Cow
Title: Funny Cow
Character: Old Man
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
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Title: Hotel Babylon
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: TV
Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
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Between Two Women
Title: Between Two Women
Character: Mr Britchenor
Released: August 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1957, Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten-year-old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art. As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home.
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A Is for Acid
Title: A Is for Acid
Character: Morrison
Released: September 9, 2002
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Brian Neale
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Tommy Davis
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Wilfred
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Bullseye
Character: Self
Released: September 28, 1981
Type: TV
Bullseye was a popular British television programme. It was first made for the ITV network by ATV in 1981, then by Central from 1982 until 1995, and was hosted by Jim Bowen.
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Title: The Glamour Girls
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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Title: Minder
Character: Club Member
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Take My Wife
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: TV
Take My Wife is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Television. It had a short run in 1979. The cast included Duggie Brown as a stand-up comic and Elisabeth Sladen as his wife. The series was written by Anthony Couch, directed by Gordon Flemyng and produced by John G. Temple. It ran for only one series of six episodes.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Brian Appleby
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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The House That Jack Built
Title: The House That Jack Built
Character: Jack
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: Movie
For Jack, the dream was to live in a castle with grounds big enough to ride a horse for two hours. For Lu, it was the dream of love. Shelagh Delaney's drama Charts 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present day
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Title: The House That Jack Built
Character: Jack
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: TV
Serial in six parts charting 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present time. Eight Years Ago - Winter Lu's dream is that Jack should be happy. Their hopes are hatched in a little two up, two down house. Starred Duggie Brown as Jack and Sharon Duce as Lu.
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The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Title: The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Character: Geoff Carter
Released: April 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
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The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
Title: The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
Character: Geoff Carter
Released: March 29, 1977
Type: Movie
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.
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Title: The Cuckoo Waltz
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: TV
The Cuckoo Waltz was a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1977 and in 1980. The series which was set in 1970s and Manchester, written by Geoffrey Lancashire, produced and directed by Bill Gilmour, dealt with the comic complications that ensue when impoverished newlyweds Chris and Fliss Hawthorne take in a lodger, Gavin Rumsey, to ease their financial problems. Collins left after 3 series and was replaced by Ian Saynor as Adrian Lockett in the fourth series. The series was re-screened by now defunct Satellite TV channel, Granada Plus, in the late 1990s and early-mid-2000s.
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Title: Days of Hope
Character: Soldier in Ireland
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: TV
Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.
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Leeds United!
Title: Leeds United!
Character: Bus Conductor
Released: October 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
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Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Title: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Character: Albion Coach
Released: January 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
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For the Love of Ada
Title: For the Love of Ada
Character: Duggie
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them.
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Title: The Comedians
Released: June 12, 1971
Type: TV
The comedians is a British television show of the 1970s produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television. The show gave a stage to nightclub and working men's club comedians of the era, including Russ Abbot, Lennie Bennett, Stan Boardman, Jim Bowen, Jimmy Bright, Duggie Brown, Mike Burton, Dave Butler, Brian Carroll, Frank Carson, Mike Coyne, Jimmy Cricket, Colin Crompton, Pauline Daniels, Charlie Daze, Vince Earl, Steve Faye, Eddie Flanagan, Stu Francis, Ken Goodwin, Jackie Hamilton, Jerry Harris, George King, Bobby Knutt, Bernard Manning, Mike McCabe, Paul Melba, Mick Miller, Hal Nolan, Tom O'Connor, Tom Pepper, Bryn Phillips, Mike Reid, George Roper, Harry Scott, Sammy Thomas, Johnny Wager, Roy Walker, Charlie Williams, Lee Wilson and Lenny Windsor. Also featured on the TV show, were Shep's Banjo Boys, a 7-piece band comprising Charlie Bentley, John Drury, Andy Holdorf, John Orchard, John Rollings, Graham Shepherd and Howard Shepherd. In 1973, the line up was Mike Dexter, Tony "Tosh" Kennedy, Ged Martin, Tony Pritchard, Graham Shepherd and Howard "Shep" Shepherd.
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The Rank and File
Title: The Rank and File
Released: May 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
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Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
Title: Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
Character: Phil
Released: October 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.
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Kes
Title: Kes
Character: Milkman
Released: April 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.