Doris Hare

Doris Hare

Born: March 1, 1905
Died: May 30, 2000
in Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Movies for Doris Hare...

Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Benny and the Jests
Title: Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Benny and the Jests
Character: Various
Released: July 19, 2000
Type: Movie
Part 2 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics!
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Nuns on the Run
Title: Nuns on the Run
Character: Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.
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Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Title: Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Character: Self
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: Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: TV
Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.
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Title: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Character: Queenie
Released: January 5, 1987
Type: TV
The everyday traumas and emotional upheavals of the legendary teenage diarist as he struggles to come to terms with life in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s England.
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Title: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Character: Queenie
Released: September 16, 1985
Type: TV
A British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend.
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Title: Comrade Dad
Released: December 17, 1984
Type: TV
Comrade Dad was a BBC television comedy satire series set in 1999 in Londongrad, the capital of the USSR-GB. The UK has been invaded by the Soviet Union and turned into a Communist state. The programme centered around the Dudgeon family and their attempts to adapt to the new order.
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Title: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Character: Rose Pratt
Released: March 30, 1980
Type: Movie
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.
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Shooting the Chandelier
Title: Shooting the Chandelier
Character: Milena
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Title: Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Character: Mrs. Lea
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Title: Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Character: Mrs. Lea
Released: September 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.
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Confessions of a Pop Performer
Title: Confessions of a Pop Performer
Character: Mrs. Lea
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!
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Holiday on the Buses
Title: Holiday on the Buses
Character: Mrs. Mabel Butler
Released: May 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
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Mutiny on the Buses
Title: Mutiny on the Buses
Character: Stan's Mum
Released: June 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park
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On the Buses
Title: On the Buses
Character: Stan's Mum
Released: July 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of
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Granny Gets the Point
Title: Granny Gets the Point
Character: Granny
Released: January 2, 1971
Type: Movie
A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.
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Title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Character: Madame Hanska
Released: September 21, 1969
Type: TV
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.
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Title: On the Buses
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: TV
On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.
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The House That Jigger Built
Title: The House That Jigger Built
Character: Mary Barrett
Released: September 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Jigger has made money from dodgy building deals. Some of his family are grateful for what he has done for them, but some deplore his dishonesty.
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Title: The Ronnie Barker Playhouse
Released: April 3, 1968
Type: TV
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse was a series of six comedy half hours showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion in 1968. The series was written by Brian Cooke, Hugh Leonard, Johnnie Mortimer and Alun Owen. The producers were Stella Richman and actress Stella Tanner. The executive producer was David Frost.
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A Place to Go
Title: A Place to Go
Character: Lil Flint
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Mrs. Barlow
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Avengers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The League of Gentlemen
Title: The League of Gentlemen
Character: Molly Weaver
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Another Time, Another Place
Title: Another Time, Another Place
Character: Mrs. Bunker
Released: May 2, 1958
Type: Movie
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Lydia
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Customer
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
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Double Exposure
Title: Double Exposure
Character: Woman Police Sergeant
Released: March 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Mrs. Fisher
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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Luck of the Navy
Title: Luck of the Navy
Character: Mrs. Maybridge
Released: November 27, 1938
Type: Movie
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.