Dick Emery

Dick Emery

Born: February 19, 1915
Died: January 2, 1983
in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK

Movies for Dick Emery...

The Best Of Dick Emery
Title: The Best Of Dick Emery
Released: July 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.
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Title: Jack Of Diamonds
Character: Bernie Weinstock
Released: June 3, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Dick Emery - The Thames Television Specials
Character: Self
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: TV
Three hour-long television specials filmed for Thames Television during Dick Emery's brief hiatus from his 15 successful years at the BBC. The shows feature all of Emery's best-loved comic characters, including favourites such as Hettie the sex-starved spinster, Gaylord the bovver boy, camp Clarence with his catchphrase 'Hello, honky-tonk!', and busty middle-aged blonde Mandy ('Ooh, you are awful!'). Guest stars include Lulu, Lynda Carter, Richard Todd, the Three Degrees, Gemma Craven and Beryl Reid.
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To See Such Fun
Title: To See Such Fun
Released: November 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
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Find the Lady
Title: Find the Lady
Character: Leo
Released: November 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Two hoodlums, Trigger (Mickey Rooney) & Leo (Dick Emery) are hired by the unscrupulous J.K. (Peter Cook) to kidnap his niece Victoria (Alexandra Bastedo). The daughter of a wealthy businessman has been kidnapped, and the chief of police, under a lot of pressure to find her as soon as possible, assigns officers Kopek (John Candy) and Broom (Lawrence Dane) to track her down and bring her back safe and sound.
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Ooh... You Are Awful
Title: Ooh... You Are Awful
Character: Charlie Tully
Released: December 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.....
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Livin' Easy
Title: Livin' Easy
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Dick Emery and dance troupe The Young Generation invite you to "simply pay through Giro" in this musical money promo.
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Loot
Title: Loot
Character: Mr. Bateman
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
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Baby Love
Title: Baby Love
Character: Harry Pearson
Released: March 19, 1969
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
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Yellow Submarine
Title: Yellow Submarine
Character: Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D. - Nowhere Man / Lord Mayor / Max (voice)
Released: July 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
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Title: Cilla
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1968
Type: TV
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.
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River Rivals
Title: River Rivals
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Two families and their children are rivals in a forthcoming race for do-it-yourself boat builders. (7 episodes, each 14-21 minutes.)
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The Big Job
Title: The Big Job
Character: Frederick 'Booky' Binns
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
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Title: Harry's Girls
Released: September 13, 1963
Type: TV
Harry's Girls is an American situation comedy which appeared on NBC from September 13, 1963, to January 3, 1964. The series stars Larry Blyden portraying Henry Burns, the leader of a vaudeville troupe consisting of three young women. The co-stars were Dawn Nickerson as Lois, Susan Silo as Rusty, and Diahn Williams as Terry.
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Title: The Dick Emery Show
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: TV
A British sketch comedy show broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981, with frequent performers including Pat Coombs, Deryck Guyler, Roy Kinnear, Joan Sims and Josephine Tewson.
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Just for Fun
Title: Just for Fun
Character: Juke Box Jury Member
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
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The Fast Lady
Title: The Fast Lady
Character: Shingler
Released: December 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
Title: The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
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Crooks Anonymous
Title: Crooks Anonymous
Character: Reginald Cundell
Released: March 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
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Title: It's a Square World
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: TV
It's a Square World was a groundbreaking British comedy show starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC. It ran from 1960 till 1964. The series led Bentine to a BAFTA award in 1962 for Light Entertainment and a compilation show, screened by the BBC in 1963, won that year's Press Prize at the Rose d'Or Festival in Montreux. The shows were devised and written by Michael Bentine and John Law. Some sketches were released on an LP.
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Light Up the Sky!
Title: Light Up the Sky!
Character: Harry - Driver
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
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A Taste of Money
Title: A Taste of Money
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
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Title: After Hours
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: The Army Game
Character: Pvt. 'Chubby' Catchpole
Released: June 19, 1957
Type: TV
The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about National Service conscription to the post-war British Army. It was created by Sid Colin. Many stars, like Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Bernard Bresslaw, Alfie Bass and Dick Emery became household names, and appeared in the Carry On films, which began with Carry On Sergeant, virtually a spin-off. It was made for the ITV network by Granada Television.
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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.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Character: Ballot Teller
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.
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Title: The Tony Hancock Show
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: TV
The Tony Hancock Show was a black-and-white British sketch show starring Tony Hancock that was broadcast for two series from 1956 to 1957. It was written by Eric Sykes, Larry Stephens, John Jose and Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. All the episodes were shown live.
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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
Title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
Character: Mr. Nodule
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.
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Thirty Miles an Hour
Title: Thirty Miles an Hour
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Short road safety film.