Bert Parnaby

Bert Parnaby

Born: March 4, 1924
Died: July 30, 1992
in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Bert Parnaby...

Completely Bad News
Title: Completely Bad News
Character: Neighbour
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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Gas and Candles
Title: Gas and Candles
Character: Bill
Released: August 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
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Title: Nightingales
Character: The Inspector
Released: February 27, 1990
Type: TV
Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and produced by Alomo Productions for Channel 4 in 1990.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Dr. Jakob Strauss
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
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The Dressmaker
Title: The Dressmaker
Character: Mr Barnes
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Character: Father Christmas
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
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Prick Up Your Ears
Title: Prick Up Your Ears
Character: Magistrate
Released: April 17, 1987
Type: Movie
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
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On the Palm
Title: On the Palm
Character: Slatterthwaite
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Ben
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Billie Jennings
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Sorrel
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Daemon
Title: Daemon
Character: Mr. Crabb
Released: December 31, 1985
Type: Movie
11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are away in America. Nick is unhappy at his new school, where he is befriended by a boy named Sam and intimidated by scripture teacher Mr. Crabb, who is interested in the occult and demonology. Nick hears voices in the house and receives messages on his computer screen; he also suffers inexplicable blisters on his feet and grazes on his elbows and knees. When he dreams of burning and wakes up in a bed full of ashes, Nick tells a psychiatrist that he feels he is possessed by a demon.
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Unfair Exchanges
Title: Unfair Exchanges
Character: Phone Poet
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.
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Rainy Day Women
Title: Rainy Day Women
Character: Fleming
Released: April 10, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.
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Dirty Movie
Title: Dirty Movie
Character: Man
Released: January 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the cinema manager Terry Toadstool is using this as a smoke screen to view a pornographic film and that Bean's wife, traffic warden Monica, is the star.
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Cain, a Blind Beggar
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Dim Cain, a Peasant
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Cain, a Peasant
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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Title: My Cousin Rachel
Character: Seecombe
Released: March 7, 1983
Type: TV
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Bad News Tour
Title: Bad News Tour
Character: Neighbor
Released: January 24, 1983
Type: Movie
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Neighbour
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Man
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Doctor Ferns
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Colonel Jenkins
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.