Ray Galton

Ray Galton

Born: July 17, 1930
Died: October 5, 2018
Writer who with his collaborator Alan Simpson created Steptoe & Son and Hancock's Half Hour.

Movies for Ray Galton...

The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Title: The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
Character: Himself
Released: December 23, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentary about Spike Milligan
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When Steptoe Met Son
Title: When Steptoe Met Son
Character: Self
Released: August 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The difficult off-screen relationship between actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen. It charts their rise to fame with 'Steptoe and Son' in the early 60's, to their final falling out during an Australian stage show in the late 70's.
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The Unforgettable Sid James
Title: The Unforgettable Sid James
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2000
Type: Movie
A profile of the comedy actor, best known for starring in many films of the Carry On franchise, with contributions from family, friends, co-stars and fans. The programme looks at his early life in South Africa, his start in films as a heavy in 1940s and 1950s crime thrillers, and his big break appearing in Hancock's Half Hour on radio and TV.
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Seriously Seeking Sid
Title: Seriously Seeking Sid
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.
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Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Title: Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Character: Self
Released: April 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.