Frankie Howerd
Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.417 |
Birthday | 1917-03-06 |
Place of Birth | York, Yorkshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Francis Alick Howard, |
1967
Carry On Doctor
6.449/68
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his...
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Carry On Doctor
1972
Up the Chastity Belt
3.789/19
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity...
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Up the Chastity Belt
1971
Up Pompeii
6/31
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listin...
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Up Pompeii
1966
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
5.8/20
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
1978
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4.4/49
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must...
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1970
Carry On Up the Jungle
5.904/52
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the...
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Carry On Up the Jungle
1972
Up the Front
4.1/15
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. B...
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Up the Front
1982
H.M.S. Pinafore
9/1
The D'Oyly Carte production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Love blossoms between members of different social classes among a general lampooning...
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H.M.S. Pinafore
1982
Trial By Jury
0/0
In a breach of promise case, the Learned Judge and Jury are somewhat smitten by the pretty Plaintiff's charms, and the Defendant is hard pressed to ex...
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Trial By Jury
1953
The Runaway Bus
5.9/10
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airpo...
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The Runaway Bus
1979
The Plank
7.4/10
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless d...
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The Plank
1969
Carry on Christmas
6.5/10
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances....
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Carry on Christmas
1973
The House in Nightmare Park
6.6/28
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring H...
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The House in Nightmare Park
1990
Frankie Howerd on Campus
0/0
Recording of Frankie Howerd's one man show given at Oxford University in which he returned to many of his most famous routines.
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Frankie Howerd on Campus
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
1975
Further Up Pompeii
7.8/4
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie...
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Further Up Pompeii
1963
The Cool Mikado
0/0
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yan...
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The Cool Mikado
1956
A Touch of the Sun
5.6/5
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
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A Touch of the Sun
1970
Cucumber Castle
4.5/2
The plot revolves around two heirs, Prince Frederick (Barry Gibb) and his brother Prince Marmaduke (Maurice Gibb), and their dying father (Frankie How...
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Cucumber Castle
1955
The Ladykillers
7.278/450
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia...
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The Ladykillers
1956
Jumping for Joy
6.5/2
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back i...
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Jumping for Joy
1991
Further Up Pompeii!
6/2
This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot Rothwell & Sid Colin. In my opinion a brilliant come-back fo...
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Further Up Pompeii!
1962
The Fast Lady
5.6/16
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Fast Lady
1961
Watch It, Sailor!
6.5/2
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-...
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Watch It, Sailor!
1955
An Alligator Named Daisy
6.2/6
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and wh...
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An Alligator Named Daisy
1963
The Mouse on the Moon
5.87/27
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new s...
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The Mouse on the Moon
1977
That's Carry On!
5.7/19
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
1983
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
0/0
Special featuring Cilla Black and her guests Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, the Bee Gees, Julio Iglesias and George Benson.
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Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1968
The Frankie Howerd Show
0/0
A one off Frankie Howerd Special
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The Frankie Howerd Show
1982
Desert Island Discs
0/0
Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking...
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Desert Island Discs
1990
Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
0/0
Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.
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Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
2004
Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
0/0
A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.
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Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
1996
Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost
0/0
Recording of a 1991 Frankie Howerd stage show, previously released on VHS.
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Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost
2013
Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes
0/0
Using items from his preserved house in Somerset, Channel Four provides a look into Frankie Howerd's career trajectory and his life behind-the-scenes.
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Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes
2024
Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments
0/0
The celebrated British comedian Frankie Howerd’s six-decade-long career in showbusiness is the subject of this documentary narrated by his long-time f...
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