
March 14, 1914 · 112 years old
British born actor known for playing working class characters on film and TV. Born William Rowbotham, the son of a tram driver and laundress, he started playing drums in London nightclubs and toured music halls with his own cabaret act to pay for acting classes. He entertained at Butlin's holiday…

A young woman juggles an unwanted suitor's advances and her desire for an exciting life envying by her free-spirited roommate's social whirlwind.

An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!

A taxi company is threatened when an all-female firm sets itself up in business and starts to steal their customers.

Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.

The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.

When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.

A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.

A London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market.

Comedy in which two dustmen (BIll Owen, Leslie Dwyer) come into possession of a valuable book, but the donor's sister (Joy Nichols) wants it back.