Please Sir! (film)
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Please Sir! is a 1971
British comedy film starring John Alderton
, spun off from the television series Please Sir!
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1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...
British comedy film starring John Alderton
John Alderton
John Alderton is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah and Please Sir!. Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins.-Early life:...
, spun off from the television series Please Sir!
Please Sir!
Please Sir! was a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies...
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Cast
- John AldertonJohn AldertonJohn Alderton is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah and Please Sir!. Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins.-Early life:...
as Bernard Hedges - Deryck GuylerDeryck GuylerDeryck Guyler was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes.-Early life:...
as Norman Potter - Noel HowlettNoel HowlettNoel Howlett was an English actor, principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme Please Sir!...
as Maurice Cromwell - Joan SandersonJoan SandersonJoan Sanderson was an English television and stage actress. During a long career she invariably played dragonish dowagers, stuck-up spinsters and suburban matrons.-Theatre:...
as Doris Ewell - Richard DaviesRichard Davies (actor)Richard Davies is a Welsh actor, from Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales whose film and TV work covers many years but is probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the LWT popular situation comedy Please Sir!.Davies uses a broad Welsh accent for much of his...
as Mr. Price - Erik ChittyErik ChittyErik Chitty , was an English film and television actor.-Early life:Chitty was the son of a flour miller. He attended Dover College and Jesus College, Cambridge where he was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Mummers, before training at RADA and becoming a professional actor...
as Mr. Smith - Patsy RowlandsPatsy RowlandsPatsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...
as Angela Cutforth - Peter CleallPeter CleallPeter Cleall is an actors' agent and former actor who is probably best known for his performance as Eric Duffy in the London Weekend Television comedy series Please Sir! which ran from 1968 to 1972....
as Eric Duffy - Carol HawkinsCarol HawkinsCarol Hawkins is an English actress.Carol trained at the Corona Stage School. London stage shows have included, Sextet, Run for Your Wife, See How They Run, Wife Begins at Forty, The Undertaking also including tours such as Time and Time Again, Bedroom Farce, Wait Until Dark, Dirty Linen...
as Sharon Eversleigh - Liz GebhardtLiz GebhardtLiz Gebhardt was an English actress, best known for playing the part of form 5C student Maureen Bullock in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! and in the subsequent spin-off show, The Fenn Street Gang ....
as Maureen Bullock - David BarryDavid BarryDavid Barry is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role as Frankie Abott, , in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang,...
as Frankie Abbott - Peter DenyerPeter DenyerPeter John Denyer was an English actor who was perhaps best remembered for playing Dennis Dunstable in London Weekend Television's Please Sir!, and its spin off series The Fenn Street Gang, taking on the role of a teenager when already into his 20s.Another semi-regular role, again for LWT, was as...
as Dennis Dunstable - Malcolm McFeeMalcolm McFeeMalcolm McFee was an English actor best known for his role as Peter Craven in the TV series Please Sir!, the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series The Fenn Street Gang.-Career:Malcolm McFee made his first appearance on television in 1967...
as Peter Craven - Aziz Resham as Feisal
- Brinsley FordeBrinsley FordeBrinsley Allan Forde is best known as the founding member of the reggae band, Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series, Here Come the Double Deckers ....
as Wesley - Jill Kerman as Penny Wheeler
- Norman BirdNorman BirdNorman Bird was a British character actor. Often sporting a moustache and an air of worried resignation, he seemed to specialise in downtrodden roles...
as Reynolds - Barbara MitchellBarbara MitchellBarbara Mitchell was an English actress who became a familiar face on British television in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her work in many classic sitcoms of the period.- Career :...
as Mrs. Abbott - Peter BaylissPeter BaylissPeter Bayliss was an English actor.Bayliss was born in Kingston-upon-Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company...
as Mr. David Dunstable - Eve PearceEve PearceEve Pearce is a Scottish actress. She has performed in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions.-Early life:Eve Pearce was born on 17 April 1929 in Aberdeen to a very poor family and was brought up in a one-roomed tenement, her mother dying when she was seven years old. When she was twelve her...
as Mrs. Daphne Dunstable - Jack SmethurstJack SmethurstJack Smethurst is an English TV and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.-Career:Smethurst made his film debut in 1958's Carry On Sergeant...
as Bus Driver - Brenda CowlingBrenda CowlingBrenda Rose Cowling was an English actress. A native of London, Cowling wanted to be a film actress from the time she was a child; however, upon leaving school, she trained instead as a shorthand typist.After a time she joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was a member of the same...
as Mrs. Duffy - Nicholas Locise as Nobbler
- Richard EverettRichard EverettRichard Everett was a founder of both Springfield, Massachusetts and Dedham, Massachusetts and an ancestor of many notable Americans....
as Malcolm - Hayden Evans as Parsons
- Fred Beauman as Joe (gypsy)
- Daphne HeardDaphne HeardDaphne Heard was an English actress. She was born in Plymouth, Devon.She had a long and distinguished career on the stage, especially in classical roles, but was perhaps best known to the general public in latter years as "Mrs...
as old gypsy lady - Graham Angell as kid
- Gregory ScottGregory Scott-Selected filmography:* Enoch Arden * The Harbour Lights * Lawyer Quince * The Answer * The Ware Case * Not Negotiable * A Great Coup * Trent's Last Case...
as teacher - Jenny Irvine as pupil
- George Georghiou as pupil
- Tony Allen as irate driver in Hillman Imp (uncredited)
- Richard CalderRichard CalderRichard Calder is a senior official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency .Calder holds a Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Connecticut and a Master's degree in information systems from George Washington University. He started his career with the CIA as a...
as pupil (uncredited) - Todd CartyTodd CartyTodd Carty is an Irish actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles. His stage work has varied from pantomime to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations, and films...
as boy in assembly wishing to be excused (uncredited) - Kevin Hudson as pupil (uncredited)