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Rising Damp - Series 1 To 4 - The Complete Works review by A customer from Norfolk

Great Series - Great Cast 5 January 2006
...r) a modern day Scrooge is the landlord, Alan (Richard Beckinsale), Miss Jones (Frances De La Tour) and Philip (Don Warrington) are his ever-suffering tenants. Mostly played out ... Read customer review

The History Boys review by from South Wales

Good grief, how simply awful m'dear 14 September 2007
...anted this film to deliver. It could have been so good. Richard Griffiths and Frances De La Tour - both genius when on their game, and I wish I could say they save the film....... Read customer review

Frances De La Tour - filmography

The Nutcracker on DVD (2010)
Starring: Hunyadi Aron, Pepe Balderrama, Jonathan Coyne
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Certificate:
1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a ..read more »

56% from 94 members

The Nutcracker - 3D Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Hunyadi Aron, Pepe Balderrama, Jonathan Coyne
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Certificate:
1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a ..read more »

44% from 57 members

Agatha Christie's Marple - The Moving Finger on DVD (2006)
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, James D'Arcy, Ken Russell
Director: Tom Shankland
Certificate:
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide...

68% from 584 members

The History Boys on DVD (2006)
Starring: Samuel Anderson, Jack Bagley, Samuel Barnett
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Certificate:
"The History Boys" tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), ..read more »

64% from 40,756 members

Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Deat... on DVD (2004)
Starring: David Suchet, Barbara Flynn, Judy Parfitt
Director: Andy Wilson
Certificate:
David Suchet's Poirot is enjoying a holiday in Egypt, but is called upon to solve a murder in his midst. It transpires that Jacqueline de Bellefort had hoped to get her fiance a good job by introducing him to her rich American school friend, the beautiful Linnet Ridgeway. But Linnet has married ..read more »

72% from 1,005 member

Eddy And The Bear - Silly Stories on DVD (2003)
Starring: Robert Lindsay, Rupert Garnsey, Frances De La Tour
Director: Tony Collingwood
Certificate:
EDDY & THE BEAR is a cute animated series for young children. Whilst looking for his lost teddy bear in the woods, Eddy finds a real bear instead, for whom Robert Lindsay provides the voice. The two quickly become friends and together they learn valuable lessons in the four episodes presented here: ..read more »

54% from 93 members

Tom Jones (2 discs) on DVD (1998)
Starring: Max Beesley, Samantha Morton, James D'Arcy
Director: Metin Huseyin
Certificate:
A ribald and rowdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England. Henry Fielding's fallen hero bed-hops his way out of a good home and almost into a hangman's noose, via a series of misadventures and misunderstandings. This big budget production boasts a strong supporting cast.

68% from 835 members

Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (2 discs) on DVD (1996)
Starring: Albert Finney, Frances De La Tour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Renny Rye
Certificate:
COLD LAZARUS is the second of two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live, Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared ..read more »

68% from 78 members

Rising Damp - The Movie on DVD (1980)
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Denholm Elliott, Frances De La Tour
Director: Joseph McGrath, Vernon Lawrence
Certificate:
This spin-off from the 1970's sitcom about a landlord and his oddball assortment of tenants was noticeable for it being made without it's co-star Richard Beckinsdale who sadly died before filming. The plot continues where the TV series left off with Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter) lusting after Miss ..read more »

63% from 721 members

Flickers - The Complete Series (1980)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Frances De La Tour, Fraser Cains
Director: Cyril Coke
Certificate:
An amiable Cockney rogue seeking out investors in a bid to break big in the silent-film industry finds that building a business out of make-believe isn't as easy as he might have thought in this comic yarn about life in the British film industry starring Bob Hoskins and Frances de la Tour. Arnie (..read more »

60% from 1 member
Not available for rental

Wombling Free (1977)
Starring: David Tomlinson, Frances De La Tour, Bonnie Langford
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Certificate:
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Based on the long running TV series, WOMBLING FREE has the adorable Wombles facing two struggles. Whilst they continue to wage their ongoing war against litter after being invited to a child's birthday party, they have to prove their existence to the people of Wimbledon common.

62% from 501 members
Not available for rental

The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - The C... (1977)
Starring: Richard Briers, Susan Baker, Roy Barraclough
Director: none
Certificate:
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have long been regarded as Britain's most successful comedy writing partnership, having created and written the long-running series Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son. Turning their hand to one-off stories, The Galton & Simpson Playhouse consisted of seven ..read more »

60% from 7 members
Not available for rental

Rising Damp - Series 1 To 4 - The Comple... (4 discs) on DVD (1976)
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Frances De La Tour, Richard Beckinsale
Director: Ian MacNaughton, Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
Rigsby, Miss Jones, Alan, Philip and Vienna the cat, are couped up in Rigsby's practically derelict hovel in this classic TV bed-sitcom. Leonard Rossiter's Rigsby is a mean, conservative and old-fashioned opinionated scruff. He's in love with the winsome, lonely and lovelorn Miss Jones (Frances De ..read more »

71% from 2,189 members

Rising Damp - The Best Of on DVD (1974)
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Frances De La Tour
Director: Vernon Lawrence, Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
Eric Chappell's wildly popular and hilarious comedy RISING DAMP stars Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Rigsby, the mean, bigoted, and boastful landlord of a decrepit boarding house. It charts Rigsby's constant romantic failure with Miss Jones (Frances De La Tour) and barely-disguised disgust for his 'lesser'..read more »

69% from 323 members

Our Miss Fred on DVD (1972)
Starring: Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival
Director: Bob Kellett
Certificate:
When Fred Wimbush is drafted into the army during WWII he entertains the troops with a show in which he appears in drag. But when the Nazi's suddenly advance he is forced to maintain his disguise or face getting shot as a spy. It isn't long before he is trying to escape in his new identity, ..read more »

60% from 85 members

Frances De La Tour facts

5 most recent films

The Nutcracker - 3.0 stars
The Nutcracker - 3D Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Marple - The Moving Finger - 3.5 stars
The History Boys - 3.0 stars
Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death On The Nile - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death On The Nile - 3.5 stars
Rising Damp - Series 1 To 4 - The Complete Works - 3.5 stars
Rising Damp - The Best Of - 3.5 stars
Tom Jones - 3.5 stars
Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
Flickers - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
The Nutcracker - 3D Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Eddy And The Bear - Silly Stories - 2.5 stars
The Nutcracker - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Leonard Rossiter - 9 times - show films
Don Warrington - 8 times - show films
Richard Beckinsale - 8 times - show films
James D'Arcy - 4 times - show films
Benjamin Whitrow - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ronnie Baxter - 6 times - show films
Ian MacNaughton - 5 times - show films
Vernon Lawrence - 3 times - show films
Renny Rye - 3 times - show films
Andrey Konchalovskiy - 3 times - show films