Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell

Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney.

  • Title: Wilfrid Brambell
  • Popularity: 15.229
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-03-22
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Wilfred Brambell, Wilfred Bramble
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Wilfrid Brambell Movies

  • 1964
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    A Hard Day's Night
    A Hard Day's Night

    7.371 1964 HD

    Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Lennon

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  • 1984
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    Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    5.26 1984 HD

    Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Sean Connery

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  • 1972
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    Steptoe & Son
    Steptoe & Son

    6.4 1972 HD

    Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1968
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    Witchfinder General
    Witchfinder General

    6.505 1968 HD

    England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Vincent Price

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  • 1962
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    In Search of the Castaways
    In Search of the Castaways

    6.4 1962 HD

    Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Maurice Chevalier

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  • 1983
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    Death and Transfiguration
    Death and Transfiguration

    5.9 1983 HD

    A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1983
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    The Terence Davies Trilogy
    The Terence Davies Trilogy

    6.267 1983 HD

    In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Terry O'Sullivan

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  • 1973
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    Holiday on the Buses
    Holiday on the Buses

    7.7 1973 HD

    Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Reg Varney

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  • 1973
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    Steptoe & Son Ride Again
    Steptoe & Son Ride Again

    6.633 1973 HD

    Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1970
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    Some Will, Some Won't
    Some Will, Some Won't

    6 1970 HD

    Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronnie Corbett

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  • 1964
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    Crooks in Cloisters
    Crooks in Cloisters

    5.5 1964 HD

    Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Barbara Windsor

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  • 1959
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    Captured
    Captured

    4.6 1959 HD

    Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1948
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    Another Shore
    Another Shore

    5.1 1948 HD

    A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Beatty

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  • 1966
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    Where the Bullets Fly
    Where the Bullets Fly

    4.5 1966 HD

    In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,

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    Cast: Tom Adams

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  • 1965
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    San Ferry Ann
    San Ferry Ann

    6.9 1965 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Lodge

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  • 1958
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    The Salvage Gang
    The Salvage Gang

    6.5 1958 HD

    Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Christopher Warbey

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  • 1969
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    Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
    Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

    6 1969 HD

    Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Leonard Whiting

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  • 1964
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    The Importance of Being Earnest
    The Importance of Being Earnest

    1 1964 HD

    TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1961
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    The Sinister Man
    The Sinister Man

    1 1961 HD

    When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Bentley

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  • 1962
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    The Boys
    The Boys

    8 1962 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Todd

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  • 1963
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    The Small World of Sammy Lee
    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    6.118 1963 HD

    The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Newley

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  • 1961
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    What a Whopper
    What a Whopper

    6.2 1961 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adam Faith

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  • 1964
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    Go Kart Go
    Go Kart Go

    6.5 1964 HD

    Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Dennis Waterman

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  • 1968
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    Cry WoIf
    Cry WoIf

    6 1968 HD

    A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Kemp

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  • 1968
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    Lionheart
    Lionheart

    6 1968 HD

    A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Robert Dean

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  • 1980
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    High Rise Donkey
    High Rise Donkey

    1 1980 HD

    The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1971
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    Catch Me a Spy
    Catch Me a Spy

    4.6 1971 HD

    While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kirk Douglas

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  • 1966
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    Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland

    7.3 1966 HD

    Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Anne-Marie Mallik

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  • 1959
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    Serious Charge
    Serious Charge

    6.4 1959 HD

    Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Quayle

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  • 1954
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    7.4 1954 HD

    A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Cushing

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets
    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

    Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Mills

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  • 1978
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    The Adventures of Picasso
    The Adventures of Picasso

    7.1 1978 HD

    Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gösta Ekman

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  • 1981
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    The Island of Adventure
    The Island of Adventure

    4.5 1981 HD

    Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Norman Bowler

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  • 1956
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    Break-In
    Break-In

    1 1956 HD

    A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime.

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    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1969
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    Carry On Again Doctor
    Carry On Again Doctor

    6.157 1969 HD

    Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sid James

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  • 1947
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    Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out

    7.327 1947 HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: James Mason

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  • 1960
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    Urge to Kill
    Urge to Kill

    2.5 1960 HD

    A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Patrick Barr

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  • 1974
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    Steptoe and Son
    Steptoe and Son

    7.733 1974 HD

    Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Harry H. Corbett

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  • 1960
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood
    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.267 1960 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Richard Greene

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  • 1967
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    No Hiding Place
    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1967 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Johnny Briggs

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  • 1957
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.667 1957 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: William Russell

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  • 1980
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    Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith

    6.25 1980 HD

    Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Lindsay

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  • 1957
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    The Buccaneers
    The Buccaneers

    6 1957 HD

    The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Shaw

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  • 1959
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    The Adventures of William Tell
    The Adventures of William Tell

    6 1959 HD

    The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Conrad Phillips

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  • 1970
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    Never Say Die
    Never Say Die

    1 1970 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Reginald Marsh

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  • 1963
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    Maigret
    Maigret

    6.9 1963 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Rupert Davies

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  • 1957
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    Sunday Night Theatre
    Sunday Night Theatre

    3.5 1957 HD

    Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1955
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    Quatermass II
    Quatermass II

    6 1955 HD

    The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Robinson

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  • 1990
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    All Creatures Great and Small
    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.622 1990 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lynda Bellingham

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  • 1995
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    The Beatles Anthology
    The Beatles Anthology

    8 1995 HD

    A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Paul McCartney

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  • 1964
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    The Larkins
    The Larkins

    7 1964 HD

    'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Jackson

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