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Tommy Godfrey is a Actor British born on 20 june 1916 at London (United-kingdom)
Tommy Godfrey (20 June 1916 – 24 June 1984) was an English film and television actor, mostly playing working class Cockney characters.
His television credits included Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, The Avengers, Bless This House, Till Death Us Do Part, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Goodies and On the Buses.
His film appearances included Passport to Pimlico (1949), Work Is a Four-Letter Word (1968), If.... (1968), Ring of Bright Water (1969), The Best House in London (1969), Simon, Simon (1970), A Severed Head (1970), Bless This House (1972), Straight On till Morning (1972), The Love Ban (1973), Love Thy Neighbour (1973), The Vault of Horror (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1974), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), Come Play with Me (1977) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981).
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 june 1916 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 24 june 1984 (at 68 years)
Birth 20 june 1916 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 24 june 1984 (at 68 years)
Tommy Godfrey (20 June 1916 – 24 June 1984) was an English film and television actor, mostly playing working class Cockney characters.
His television credits included Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, The Avengers, Bless This House, Till Death Us Do Part, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Goodies and On the Buses.
His film appearances included Passport to Pimlico (1949), Work Is a Four-Letter Word (1968), If.... (1968), Ring of Bright Water (1969), The Best House in London (1969), Simon, Simon (1970), A Severed Head (1970), Bless This House (1972), Straight On till Morning (1972), The Love Ban (1973), Love Thy Neighbour (1973), The Vault of Horror (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1974), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), Come Play with Me (1977) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981).
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The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
, 1h30Directed by Jim Henson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Musical films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Jack Warden, Joan Sanderson
Roles Bus Conductor
Rating70%
Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo the Great play newspaper reporters for the Daily Chronicle. Kermit and Fozzie, specifically, are playing identical twin reporters, which becomes the source of a running gag - supposedly, nobody can tell they are twins unless Fozzie wears his hat. While Gonzo is too busy taking pictures of a chicken, prominent London fashion designer Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) gets robbed of her jewels. The trio are eventually assigned to investigate the theft of the valuable jewels from Lady Holiday, which they have to beg for after their supervisor Mike Tarkenian dismisses them following the Daily Chronicle 's headline about the twins joining the staff (while the other papers report on the jewel heist).
Come Play with Me (1977)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musical films
Actors Alfie Bass, Irene Handl, Ronald Fraser, Tommy Godfrey, Sue Longhurst, Cardew Robinson
Roles Blitt
Rating38%
Cornelius Clapworthy (Harrison Marks) and his sidekick Maurice Kelly (Alfie Bass) are two elderly forgers responsible for flooding the UK with fake banknotes. On the run from their gangster boss Slasher (Ronald Fraser) and effeminate, cross dressing government official Podsnap (Ken Parry) the pair escape to the Scottish Highlands and posing as musicians hide out at Bovington Manor, a B&B run by Lady Bovington (Irene Handl).
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
, 1h37Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Angela Pleasence, David Warner
Roles Mr. Jeffries
Rating65%
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits those who cheat the shop's Proprietor (Peter Cushing).
The Vault of Horror (1973)
, 1h23Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Terry-Thomas, Curd Jürgens, Daniel Massey, Tom Baker, Dawn Addams, Denholm Elliott
Roles Landlord
Rating64%
Framing Story Five strangers board a descending lift, one by one, in a modern office block in London. They reach the sub-basement, though none of them have pressed for that destination. There they find a large, elaborately furnished room which appears to be a gentlemen's club. The lift door has closed and there are no buttons to bring it back, nor any other exit. Resigned to waiting for help, they settle down with drinks and talk. The conversation turns to dreams, and each man tells of a recurring nightmare.
Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
, 1h25Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams, Bill Fraser, Charles Hyatt, Patricia Hayes
Roles Arthur
Rating59%
Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour. Unbeknown to their husbands Joan and Barbie enter a Love Thy Neighbour competition to win a cruise, but are unsure how to get around the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to the problems Joan's Mother In Law is coming to stay, and Barbie has her Father In Law Coming from Trinidad. What will Bill and Eddie do when they realise their parents get on?
The Love Ban (1973)
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors John Cleese, Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman, Milo O'Shea, Angharad Rees, Nicky Henson
Rating48%
Bless This House (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Diana Coupland, Sid James, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson
Roles Murray
Rating61%
1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
Straight On Till Morning (1972)
, 1h36Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam, Katya Wyeth, Annie Ross, Claire Kelly
Rating57%
Brenda is a plain young woman who lives at home with her mother in Liverpool and enjoys writing fairy tales for children. One day she tells her mother that she is leaving home and moving to London in order to find a father for her yet unborn baby.
Simon Simon (1970)
, 32minutesDirected by Graham Stark
Genres Comedy
Actors Graham Stark, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Julia Foster, Ernie Wise, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Rating59%
Two handymen, (Graham Stark and John Junkin) cause chaos on a new crane while haphazardly trying to accomplish jobs for their ever more frustrated boss. This 'silent' comedy features a host of cameos from the likes of Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise and Tony Blackburn.
Ring of Bright Water (1969)
, 1h47Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals
Actors Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Roddy McMillan, Christopher Benjamin
Roles Ticket seller
Rating70%
Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) in the window, eventually buying and naming the animal Mij. The otter wreaks havoc in his small apartment and together they leave London for a rustic cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers and make the acquaintance of Dr. Mary (Virginia McKenna) from the nearby village, and her dog Johnny. Mij and Johnny play in the water and bound across the fields together.
Till Death Us Do Part (1969)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth, Liam Redmond, Bill Maynard
Roles Knowledgeable man in pub
Rating61%
The film begins in September 1939 shortly before World War II begins. Alf Garnett, a dockyard worker, and his wife Else have been married for only a few weeks, and are already weary of one another. Alf gets called up for military duty but is turned down because he's in a reserved occupation. The film depicts their lives during the London Blitz. Else eventually gets pregnant to Alf and Else's shock, and they have a baby daughter, Rita, in 1942. The war ends in 1945 with a huge street party and Alf, characteristically, gets drunk.
if.... (1968)
, 1h51Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about school violence
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, David Wood, Peter Jeffrey, Christine Noonan, Mona Washbourne
Roles School porter
Rating73%
Set in a British public school (a fee-paying boarding school) in the late 1960s, the film opens as the pupils return for a new term. Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), Wallace (Richard Warwick), and Johnny (David Wood) are three non-conformist boys in the lower sixth form (the penultimate year). They are watched and persecuted by the "Whips", upper sixth formers given authority as prefects over the other boys, while younger boys (whom the prefects degradingly call "Scum") are made to "fag" (act as personal servants) for the Whips.
Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
, 1h33Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors David Warner, Cilla Black, Zia Mohyeddin, Elizabeth Spriggs, Alan Howard, Jan Holden
Roles Mr Thacker
Rating54%
Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose (Warner) would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms. However, his bedroom is too small and his fiancee Betty Dorrick (Black) wants him to settle down. Accordingly, Brose seeks a job in DICE's boiler-room, a suitable environment to grow his mushrooms.
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
, 1h24Directed by Henry Cornelius
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, Raymond Huntley, Sydney Tafler
Roles Bus Conductor
Rating70%
When some local children roll a tractor tyre down a hole, it sets off an unexploded bomb left over from the Second World War in Miramont Gardens in the Pimlico district of London. The explosion reveals a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient parchment document. Professor Hatton-Jones (Margaret Rutherford) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII ("the Rash"), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy. Local policeman P.