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The Odd Job
''The Odd Job'' is a 1978 British comedy film starring Monty Python member Graham Chapman. It tells the story of a man named Arthur Harris who is recently abandoned by his wife. He becomes so depressed that he hires an "odd job man" to kill him. Once his wife returns, Harris finds himself unable to cancel the contract. Cast *Graham Chapman as Arthur Harris *David Jason as The Odd Job Man * Diana Quick as Fiona Harris * Simon Williams as Tony Sloane * Edward Hardwicke as Inspector Black * Bill Paterson as Sergeant Mull * Michael Elphick as Raymonde *Stewart Harwood asa Bernard * Carolyn Seymour as Angie * Joe Melia as head waiter *George Innes as caretaker * James Bree as Mr. Kemp * Zulema Dene as Mrs. Kemp *Richard O'Brien as Batch * Carl Andrews as taxi driver * Dave Atkins as milkman *John Judd as police driver *Nick Edmett as Police Constable *Toby Salaman as barman *Tiny Keeling as Boston Startler *David Hatton as old man *Anthony Milner as waiter *Mark Penfold as ambulancema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Medak
Péter Medák (born 23 December 1937) is a Hungarians in the United Kingdom, Hungarian-British film and television director. Early life Born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary, he was the son of Elisabeth (née Diamounstein) and Gyula Medak, a textile manufacturer. His family was Jewish. In 1956, he fled his native country for the United Kingdom due to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Uprising. There he embarked on a career in the film industry, starting as a trainee and gradually rising to the position of film director. Career Medak was signed to direct television films for Music Corporation of America, MCA Universal Pictures in 1963. In 1967, he signed with Paramount Pictures to make feature films. His first such film was ''Negatives (1968 film), Negatives'' (1968). Some of his most notable other works are ''The Ruling Class (film), The Ruling Class'' (1972), ''The Changeling (film), The Changeling'' (1980), ''The Krays (film), The Krays'' (1990) and ''Let Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series ''Survivors (1975 TV series), Survivors'' (1975) and Queen Myrrah in the ''Gears of War (series), Gears of War'' franchise. Career She was born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire to an Estonian father of Russian descent and an Irish mother. One of her early television roles was as Jenny in the BBC drama series ''Take Three Girls'', and an early film appearance was as Zita in the film ''Steptoe and Son (film), Steptoe and Son'' (1972) alongside Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell. Her best-known movie role remains Grace Gurney in ''The Ruling Class (film), The Ruling Class'' (1972), opposite Peter O'Toole. She left ''Survivors'' at the end of its first series due to disagreements with the producers over the direction the show and her character were taking. She appeared in the ''Space: 1999'' episode "The Seance Spectre", and with Joan Collins in ''The Bitch (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including '' Do Not Adjust Your Set'' and '' The Frost Report'', before creating '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'' with Cambridge graduates Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle and American animator-filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Jones was largely responsible for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. He made his directorial debut with ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'', which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films '' Life of Brian'' and '' The Meaning of Life''. Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutland Weekend Television
''Rutland Weekend Television'' (''RWT'') is a television sketch show written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast on BBC2, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975. It was Idle's first television project after ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which had ended the previous year, and was the catalyst for The Rutles. ''Rutland Weekend Television'' ostensibly centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest (and mainly rural) county, Rutland. Rutland had been abolished as a county in April 1974 so, supposedly, there were tax advantages to broadcasting from somewhere that did not legally exist. This framework allowed for a range of sketches and material to be presented, all as part of the fictional network's hosted programming. Nevertheless, even this very loose concept was frequently ignored, and material was prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band the Rutles. Idle studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined Cambridge University Footlights. He has received a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. Idle reached stardom in the 1970s when he co-created and acted in the Python sketch comedy series '' Flying Circus'' (1969–1974) and the films '' Holy Grail'' (1975), '' Life of Brian'', (1979) and '' The Meaning of Life'' (1983) with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Known for his elaborate wordplay and musical numbers, Idle composed and performed many of the songs featured in Python projects, including " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". After ''Flying Circus'' ended, Idle created another sketch show '' Rutland Weekend Television'' (1975–1976), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawlty Towers
''Fawlty Towers'' is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil ( Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth), and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel ( Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople. The idea of ''Fawlty Towers'' came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon, in 1970 (along with the rest of the Monty Python troupe), where he encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald Sinclair. Stuffy and snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and Television presenter, presenter. Emerging from the Footlights, Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ''The Frost Report''. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show ''Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Along with his Python costars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), ''Monty Python's Life of Brian, Life of Brian'' (1979), and ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Meaning of Life'' (1983). In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth cowrote the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' is a 1975 British comedy film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC Television series ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''. While the group's first film, ''And Now for Something Completely Different'', was a compilation of sketch comedy, sketches from the first two television series, ''Holy Grail'' is an original story that parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical ''Spamalot''. ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' grossed more than any other Cinema of the United Kingdom, British film screened in the US in 1975, and has since been considered one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Atkins (actor)
David James Atkins (11 October 1940 – 23 April 2008) was an English actor mostly known for portraying Sharkey in '' Britannia Hospital'', Moving Man No.1 in Clive Barker's '' Hellraiser'' in 1987, and pub landlord Les in ''Men Behaving Badly''. Atkins died of heart failure in 2008, at age 67. Filmography * '' The Odd Job'' (1978) – Milkman * '' Britannia Hospital'' (1982) – Sharkey * '' P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang'' (1982) – Fish Shop Owner * '' Mr. Love'' (1985) – Undertaker * '' Personal Services'' (1987) – Sydney * '' Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987) – Mr. Sugden * '' Hellraiser'' (1987) – Moving Man No.1 Television * ''Men Behaving Badly ''Men Behaving Badly'' is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang ( Martin Clunes) and his flatmates Dermot Povey ( Harry Enfield; series 1 only) and Tony Smart ( Neil Morrissey; series ...'' (1992–1995) Les the dribbly landlord of the Crown pub * '' Minder'' (1982) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Andrews (actor)
Carl Andrews (1947 – 1990) was a British character actor. Andrews' most notable role was as garage mechanic Joe MacDonald, British soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ...'s first, and one of the longest serving, recurring black characters in the original version of the popular motel soap '' Crossroads''. Andrews remained in the role from 1978 until 1986. Personal life He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 43. References External links * 1947 births 1990 deaths British male soap opera actors 20th-century British male actors AIDS-related deaths in the United Kingdom {{UK-tv-actor-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith; 25 March 1942) is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, musician, and television presenter. He wrote the musical stage show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' in 1973, which has since remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay along with director Jim Sharman for the film adaptation, ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' (1975), and appeared on-screen as Riff Raff. The film became an international success and has received a large The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following, cult following. O'Brien co-wrote the musical ''Shock Treatment'' (1981) and appeared in the film as Dr. Cosmo McKinley. From 1990 to 1993, O'Brien presented the Channel 4 game show ''The Crystal Maze.'' He also provides the voice of List of Phineas and Ferb characters#Lawrence Fletcher, Lawrence Fletcher in the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'' (2008–2015; 2025–present), as well as its Phineas and Ferb Films, two films (2011 and 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulema Dene
Zulema Noel Walliker (21 May 1934 – 16 September 2022) was an English actress. Life She was an alumnus of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Dene's career included West End productions, such as Tonight at 8.30 by Noël Coward at Lyric Theatre and Motherdear by Royce Ryton at Ambassadors Theatre, television, movies and, in later years, she did many voice overs. Partial filmography Movies * ''The Odd Job'' (1978) - Mrs. Kemp * ''The Pirates of Penzance'' (1983) - Pinafore Company * '' Playing Away'' (1987) - Miss Rye * ''Willow'' (1988) - Ethna Television * '' Emergency-Ward 10'' (1965, 1967) - Sister Wright * '' Mrs Thursday'' (1967) (1 episode) - Margaret Lever * ''No Hiding Place'' (1967) (1 episode) - Nurse Brodie * ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' (1968–69) (2 episodes) - Mrs. McKay * ''Coronation Street'' (1973) (3 episodes) - Muriel Chaplin * '' Yanks Go Home'' (1976–77) (3 episodes) - Marjorie Mortimore * ''Crown Court'' (1978) (3 episodes) - Jane Levine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
