''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
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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