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''Not Only But Always'' is a British TV movie, originally screened on the
Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...
network in the UK on 30 December 2004.


Description

Written and directed by playwright Terry Johnson, the film tells the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians
Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishmen ...
and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing primarily on Cook, the film traces the pair from their first meeting through their career as part of the '' Beyond the Fringe'' review, their television series '' Not Only... But Also'' (from which the film takes its title) and various other projects before their later estrangement as Moore became a successful Hollywood film star and Cook remained in the UK. Although some events are fictionalised and condensed, and the film was criticised in some quarters for an unsympathetic portrayal of many of Cook's faults, it was generally well-received critically.


Cast

* Rhys Ifans as
Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishmen ...
* Aidan McArdle as Dudley Moore * Jodie Rimmer as Wendy Snowden * Camilla Power as Judy Huxtable * Daphne Cheung as Lin Chong * Jonathan Aris as
Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, comedian and physician. After training in medicine and specialising in neurology in the late 19 ...
* Alan Cox as Alan Bennett * Josephine Davison as Eleanor Bron


Awards

*At the 2005 British Academy Television Awards, ''Not Only But Always'' was nominated for Best Single Drama, with Rhys Ifans winning the Best Actor for his portrayal of Peter Cook.


See also

*'' Pete and Dud: Come Again''


External links

*{{IMDb title, id=0408046, title=Not Only But Always Channel 4 television films 2004 biographical drama films 2004 television films 2004 films British biographical drama films Dudley Moore Peter Cook 2000s British films British drama television films 2000s English-language films English-language biographical drama films