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Sid Colin is a Scriptwriter British born on 1920 at England (United-kingdom)
Sid Colin (1920 – 1989) was an English screenwriter, working for both television and the cinema. He is best rememberd for the television comedies The Army Game (1957–59), Up Pompeii! (1969–1970) and the film Percy's Progress (1974). On Up Pompeii! and Carry On Spying (1964), he collaborated with regular Carry On series writer Talbot Rothwell.
Colin also other sitcom include Meet the Champ (1960), On the House (1970–71) and Whoops Baghdad (1973).
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Colin, Sid
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Date of birth
1920
Place of birth
England, UK
Date of death
1989
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Birth name Sid Colin
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1920 at England (United-kingdom)
Death 1989 (at 69 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1920 at England (United-kingdom)
Death 1989 (at 69 years)
Sid Colin (1920 – 1989) was an English screenwriter, working for both television and the cinema. He is best rememberd for the television comedies The Army Game (1957–59), Up Pompeii! (1969–1970) and the film Percy's Progress (1974). On Up Pompeii! and Carry On Spying (1964), he collaborated with regular Carry On series writer Talbot Rothwell.
Colin also other sitcom include Meet the Champ (1960), On the House (1970–71) and Whoops Baghdad (1973).
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Name
Colin, Sid
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
1920
Place of birth
England, UK
Date of death
1989
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Filmography of Sid Colin (8 films)
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Percy's Progress (1974)
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Judy Geeson, Denholm Elliott, Adrienne Posta, Anthony Andrews
Rating38%
Percy is well known in England as the man with the world's first penis transplant, and is exceptionally well endowed. His rampant conquests of married women cause him to escape incarceration by local authorities.
Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser, Norman Beaton, David Prowse, Roy Hudd
Rating51%
Howerd played dual roles as King Richard the Lionheart and cowardly peasant Lurkalot (his character in Up Pompeii was the slave Lurcio). The plot served as an excuse to serve up the usual collection of puns and double entendres that characterised most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "A Knight for My Nights" and Hugh Paddick (of Julian and Sandy fame in the Round the Horne BBC radio series) as a notable Robin Hood, leader of a band of men who were camp homosexual rather than merry.
Up the Front (1972)
, 1h29Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, William Mervyn, Hermione Baddeley, Jonathan Cecil, Madeline Smith
Rating45%
Set during World War I, Lurk, a lowly servant in the household of Lord and Lady Twithampton (William Mervyn & Linda Gray), is hypnotised by The Great Vincento (Stanley Holloway) and travels to the Western Front to 'save England'. Lurk is inspired to bravery, and upon receiving the German master plan for the entire war, which has through an unlikely series of events been tattooed onto his posterior, is pursued across France by German intelligence. After breaking into the British military headquarters to deliver the plans into the hands of General Burke (Robert Coote), he is confronted by the sensuous German spy Mata Hari (Zsa Zsa Gabor). After foiling Mata Hari's scheme to relieve him of the plan, a hilarious scene develops in which he is pursued by the nefarious Von Gutz (Lance Percival) and his henchmen Donner and Blitzen (Gertan Klauber and Stanley Lebor). Accompanied by the Can-Can, performed by the Famous Buttercup Girls, Lurk is pursued around the Allied headquarters.
Up Pompeii (1971)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Julie Ege
Rating60%
Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern) who mistakenly reads the contents of the scroll to the Senate. Farcical attempts are made to retrieve the scroll before Pompeii is eventually consumed by the erupting Vesuvius.
Carry On Spying (1964)
, 1h27Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
Rating62%
A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans). Fearful of what would happen if that formula fell into the wrong hands, the Chief of the Secret Service reluctantly sends the only agent he has left, the bumbling and snide Agent Desmond Simpkins, (Kenneth Williams), and his three trainees, Agent Harold Crump, (Bernard Cribbins), Agent Daphne Honeybutt, (Barbara Windsor), and Agent Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey), to find the formula.
The Navy Lark (1959)
, 1h18Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Nicholas Phipps, Cardew Robinson, Gordon Jackson
Rating60%
The Ugly Duckling (1959)
, 1h24Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith, Jean Muir, Maudie Edwards, Richard Wattis
Rating55%
Henry Jekyll (Bernard Bresslaw) is a bungling, awkward and socially inept buffoon working in his uncle's pharmacy. One day he discovers an old formula created by his uncle which claims to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. He eagerly mixes the formula, takes one drink, and is transformed into the suave, dashing and self-confident Teddy Hyde. Teddy immediately becomes a darling of society and a big hit with the ladies. However he also craves the thrill of becoming a master criminal, and recruits a gang of expert crooks to join him in carrying out a series of daring and ambitious jewel robberies.
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
, 1h30Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Bernard Cribbins, Sid James, Noel Purcell, Virgílio Teixeira
Rating50%