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Sidney James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; May 8, 1913 – April 26, 1976) was a South African-born English-based actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona. Bruce Forsyth summed up his talent thus: "He was a natural at being natural."
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22 September 1953
An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they're still married.
01 January 1955
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera.
15 August 1952
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine.
05 December 2000
A profile of the comedy actor, best known for starring in many films of the Carry On franchise, with contributions from family, friends, co-stars and fans.
02 February 1954
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts.
08 June 1954
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
30 November 1953
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
25 August 1953
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up.
15 April 1952
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
01 January 1965
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow.
31 October 1956
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
01 July 1947
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld.
22 August 1968
A little travelogue feature presenting Torbay - new resort along the 20 mile stretch of South Devon coast.
11 July 1957
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
22 November 1954
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara.
21 December 1959
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter.
19 May 1952
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
06 November 1957
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is persuaded to help educate and possibly heal Esther.
01 February 1960
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.
15 August 1955
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr.
02 November 1959
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic.
04 March 1958
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours.
01 December 1953
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
13 July 1953
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
01 November 1977
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
05 January 1959
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group.
01 January 2001
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry On' films.
20 April 1961
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell.
24 December 1973
Sid James as Father Christmas recounts times of the festive season through the ages, from life in stone age times.
28 October 1958
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals.
12 May 1965
A young African boy is rescued from a witchdoctor's death curse. He travels to the big city where a blind white man becomes his protector.
17 October 1961
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster.
01 July 1952
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister.
12 November 1952
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan.
17 May 1963
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
01 January 1976
Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.
28 June 1951
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
08 March 1959
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off.
05 March 1952
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) .
09 April 1966
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
01 September 1956
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman.
15 February 1955
Multiple stories unfold over the course of twenty-four hours in and around a bustling central airport.
21 February 1949
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
03 September 2022
Celebrating the nearly 50-year-long career of one of Britain's most loveable celebrities.
13 March 1959
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
31 January 1950
A woman conspires to steal her stepdaughter's inheritance following the mysterious death of her millionaire husband.
12 March 1951
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
09 November 1973
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest.
12 September 1957
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity.
30 May 1956
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
06 September 1966
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy fr,
01 December 1972
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful.
15 September 1961
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives.
23 July 1957
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
06 September 1961
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker.
25 August 1964
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
09 April 1957
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough.
16 April 1954
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs.
01 February 1953
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
