David Lodge
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David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 in Rochester, Kent - 18 October 2003 in Northwood, Middlesex) was a British character actor.
Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown. He also appeared in Gang Shows and variety before making his screen debut in The Cockleshell Heroes and going on to feature in many British films usually portraying military types, and often comedic roles. He was a close friend of Peter Sellers and appeared as part of Spike Milligan's team on his Q programmes.
Amazingly, in 1958 he appeared in ten films, possibly a record.
He appeared in a 1969 episode of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased ("Who Killed Cock Robin?"), and continuing with his military-type roles, appeared alongside Windsor Davies as Company Sergeant-Major Sharp in an episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum in 1976. He appeared as a policeman in the opening episode of the legal drama The Main Chance.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.315 |
| Birthday | 1921-08-19 |
| Place of Birth | Rochester, Kent, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1976
Carry On England
4.667/36
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardm...
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Carry On England
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
6.794/575
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
1974
Carry On Dick
5.8/54
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enli...
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Carry On Dick
1973
Carry On Girls
5.7/54
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidabl...
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Carry On Girls
1972
Mutiny on the Buses
7.5/51
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever...
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Mutiny on the Buses
1962
Trial and Error
6.5/11
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his w...
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Trial and Error
1960
Never Let Go
6.583/24
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic org...
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Never Let Go
1964
The Long Ships
6.01/52
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent...
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The Long Ships
1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
5.8/26
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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The Cockleshell Heroes
1960
The League of Gentlemen
7/87
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa...
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The League of Gentlemen
1968
Corruption
5.8/36
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitar...
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Corruption
1960
Two Way Stretch
6.413/40
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perf...
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Two Way Stretch
1965
Catch Us If You Can
5.2/16
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat...
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Catch Us If You Can
1962
Captain Clegg
6.2/63
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and...
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Captain Clegg
1971
On the Buses
6.3/33
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus...
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On the Buses
1972
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
6.8/14
Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she canno...
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1989
Edge of Sanity
5.3/53
When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wi...
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Edge of Sanity
1962
The Pirates of Blood River
6/22
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it...
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The Pirates of Blood River
1961
The Hellfire Club
5.2/5
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Th...
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The Hellfire Club
1960
Watch Your Stern
5.7/10
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to sho...
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Watch Your Stern
1959
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
5.4/25
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1969
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
5.714/7
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
1964
A Shot in the Dark
7.2/520
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic ser...
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A Shot in the Dark
1972
The Fiend
5.1/16
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny,...
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The Fiend
1960
Jazz Boat
6/3
A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
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Jazz Boat
1965
San Ferry Ann
6.9/9
A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family le...
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San Ferry Ann
1965
Cup Fever
8.3/3
The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants...
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Cup Fever
1971
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
5.6/4
Mary Bunting is sitting alone when to her surprise and delight a rabbit six foot tall - elegantly dressed in frock coat and fancy waistcoat - appears....
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Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1960
The Bulldog Breed
5.9/13
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, h...
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The Bulldog Breed
1964
Guns at Batasi
7/23
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Guns at Batasi
1959
Idol on Parade
7/5
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
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Idol on Parade
1962
Time to Remember
5.5/2
A gang of jewel thieves rob a house which has just become empty following the recent death of it's rich lady owner. The robbery is not a complete succ...
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Time to Remember
1962
The Boys
8/3
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of...
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The Boys
1971
Bachelor of Arts
0/0
An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.
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Bachelor of Arts
1959
Life In Emergency Ward 10
7/2
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Life In Emergency Ward 10
1959
The Ugly Duckling
5.8/5
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrive...
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The Ugly Duckling
1961
Raising the Wind
6.563/8
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...
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Raising the Wind
1967
The Sky Bike
6/1
Competition between rival inventors endeavouring to win a prize for the first flight by a man-powered flying machine.
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The Sky Bike
1968
Headline Hunters
0/0
Children decide to keep the local newspaper running while their father is ill.
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Headline Hunters
1966
The Wrong Box
6.455/55
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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The Wrong Box
1972
Raising the Roof
0/0
Children's Film Foundation comedy.
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Raising the Roof
1972
Some Kind of Hero
0/0
The story of a U.S. deserter who comes in search of English sanctuary and turns out to be something of a negative cause, both for those who attempt to...
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Some Kind of Hero
1957
The Counterfeit Plan
5.2/2
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...
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The Counterfeit Plan
1970
The Railway Children
6.7/84
After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in s...
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The Railway Children
1958
Ice Cold in Alex
7.3/83
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader o...
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Ice Cold in Alex
1970
Crime Doesn't Pay
0/0
Compilation film made from extracts, "Headline Hunters", the Christmas Tree", "Operation Third Form", and "The Runaway Railway".
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Crime Doesn't Pay
1972
Nobody Ordered Love
0/0
During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from...
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Nobody Ordered Love
1958
The Silent Enemy
5.4/15
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to c...
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The Silent Enemy
1958
Tank Force!
6/8
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Tank Force!
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.5/38
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1958
Further Up the Creek
6/6
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
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Further Up the Creek
1966
After the Fox
6/67
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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After the Fox
1957
These Dangerous Years
6/2
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
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These Dangerous Years
1967
Smashing Time
6.3/9
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Smashing Time
1971
Blood Suckers
3.6/15
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever...
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Blood Suckers
1970
Hoffman
7.2/22
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
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Hoffman
1959
Yesterday's Enemy
7.1/33
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...
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Yesterday's Enemy
1970
Eyewitness
6.4/15
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
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Eyewitness
2000
The Unknown Peter Sellers
8/3
Documentary about the life and career of a comic genius, Peter Sellers.
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The Unknown Peter Sellers
1971
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
5.1/18
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Se...
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1965
The Intelligence Men
6.1/8
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5...
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The Intelligence Men
1962
Go to Blazes
6.3/9
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio...
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Go to Blazes
1965
The Alphabet Murders
5.9/36
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
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The Alphabet Murders
1958
I Was Monty's Double
6.8/22
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions befo...
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I Was Monty's Double
1961
No, My Darling Daughter
6.3/3
A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.
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No, My Darling Daughter
1957
The Naked Truth
6.5/25
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rat...
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The Naked Truth
1963
Two Left Feet
5/1
Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl wh...
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Two Left Feet
1964
Saturday Night Out
5.7/3
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
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Saturday Night Out
1974
A Killer With Two Faces
0/0
A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.
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A Killer With Two Faces
1972
Hide and Seek
4.6/4
A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada wit...
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Hide and Seek
1984
Bloodbath at the House of Death
5.5/66
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where...
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Bloodbath at the House of Death
1968
Only When I Larf
6.4/4
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
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Only When I Larf
1970
Scream and Scream Again
5.3/89
A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
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Scream and Scream Again
1966
Press for Time
5.821/14
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job...
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Press for Time
1957
Strangers' Meeting
0/0
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence h...
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Strangers' Meeting
1969
Crooks and Coronets
8.3/3
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
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Crooks and Coronets
1962
On the Beat
7.7/28
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform...
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On the Beat
1956
The Long Arm
7/17
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1962
Kill or Cure
4.8/6
A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
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Kill or Cure
1958
Up the Creek
5.8/4
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out...
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Up the Creek
1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
4.2/6
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more an...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.6/68
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr...
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I'm All Right Jack
1969
What's Good for the Goose
6/5
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frig...
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What's Good for the Goose
1966
The Sandwich Man
6.1/7
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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The Sandwich Man
1975
Carry On Behind
5.49/49
Professors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site wh...
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Carry On Behind
2001
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
0/0
This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants...
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
1961
Carry On Regardless
6.4/45
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
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Carry On Regardless
1959
Bobbikins
4/2
Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
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