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  • Hancock: The Best Of Hancock
  • Hancock: The Best Of Hancock review by from norfolk
    Rated - 4 stars A lesson in sitcom 11 August 2004
    ...n though these are solo shows, that followed his earlier (and better) work with Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams et al, they are still an object lesson in sit...  
  • Carry On Cleo
  • Carry On Cleo review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars brilliant...... 28 October 2006
    ...ilms. the cast are all on top form with Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar and Sid James as Mark Anthony. Also included in the cast are Amanda Barrie as Cleo, Joan Sims...  
  • Carry On At Your Convenience
  • Carry On At Your Convenience review by A customer from Ipswich, UK
    Rated - 3 stars Whimsical historical humour 23 July 2004
    ...e depiction of the Union Steward as petty and ill-informed, the honest foreman (Sid James) as working for the company's interests (even lending them money !), and the ow...  

Sid James - filmography


  • Carry On Dick on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sid James,  Barbara Windsor,  Kenneth Williams
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In CARRY ON DICK, infamous outlaw Dick Turpin (otherwise known as "Big Dick") terrorises the land, running rings around the authorities. Consequently, dimwits Captain Desmond Fancey, Sir Roger Daley, and Sergeant Jock Strapp launch a hilarious attempt at bringing this criminal to justice.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,545 member
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  • Carry On Girls on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Sid James,  Joan Sims,  Kenneth Connor
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The gang returns with Sidney Fiddler conning the local council into running a beauty pageant to promote their community. He's thrilled with the prospect of entertaining all the lovely young contestants, but his girlfriend has a different plan in mind.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2,432 members
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  • Bless This House (1972)
    Starring: Sid James,  Diana Coupland,  Terry Scott
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The feature-length comical adventures of the two generations of the Abbott family, beloved by television audiences since the 1970s. Two straightlaced suburbanites, Sid and Jean Abbott, try to deal with their more unconventional children from across the generation gap.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 244 members
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  • Bless This House - Complete Series 1 (2 discs) (1971)
    Starring: Sid James,  Diana Coupland
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Sid James plays Sid Abbott - Mr Average Married Man. A representative for a stationery firm. Sid's interest in live are the three C's: Chelsea, Courage bitter and Crumpet, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 554 members
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  • Sitcom Classics (1968)
    Starring: Sid James,  Richard O'Sullivan,  Yootha Joyce
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.Compilation of episodes from memorable sitcoms of the 70s and 80s: 'Bless This House', 'Man About The House', 'Father, Dear, Father', 'George And Mildred' and 'Never The Twain'...read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 93 members
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  • Carry On Camping on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Sid James,  Kenneth Williams,  Charles Hawtrey
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Carry On boys try to spice up their girlfriends by taking them on an outdoor vacation... at a nudist camp. Temptation is placed in front them with the arrival of Dr. Soaper and the young girls from the Chayste Place Finishing School. Soon the campsite is the scene of the usual Carry On chaos.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,866 member
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  • Carry On Doctor on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Sid James,  Kenneth Williams
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A certain hospital, bordering on mental institution, is headed up by the slightly crazy medical team of Dr. Kilmore and Dr. Tinkle. Their abnormal patients and love-starved nurses make for a prescription of laughter as the best medicine in this British production.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,576 member
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  • Carry On Cowboy on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Sid James,  Kenneth Williams,  Jim Dale
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In CARRY ON COWBOY, a group of lewd and comic characters take the viewer on a hilarious romp through the saloon bars (and bedrooms) of Stodge City in the Old West. The film stars Sid James as the Rumpo Kid; Joan Sims as the luscious Mae West character Belle ("Ding Dong!") and Angela DOUGLAS as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,473 member
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  • The Big Job on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Sid James,  Sylvia Syms,  Dick Emery
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Big Job stars James as George the Brain, leader of a gang of inept bank robbers who end up in prison for 15 years, with only the thought of the stolen money that remains hidden keeping them going until their release. However, when the time comes, it seems the tasking of recovering the loot won'..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 336 members
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  • Carry On Cleo on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Joan Sims,  Sid James,  Kenneth Williams
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This jocular spoof of Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA is filled with numerous puns, plots, and double-meanings. Ancient history was never so much fun. The film stars Amanda Barrie, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, and other Carry On regulars.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,827 member
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  • Carry On Cabby on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Sid James,  hattie Jacques,  Kenneth Connor
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this CARRY ON film, Hattie Jacques stars as Peggy, a young wife unhappy with her workaholic husband, Charlie (Sidney James), who owns a cab company. Peggy decides to get back at Charlie by starting her own cab company--one that hires beautiful girls as the taxi drivers. Needless to say, business ..read more »
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  • Carry On Cruising on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Kenneth Connor,  Liz Fraser,  Esma Cannon
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The captain (Sidney James) of a large cruise ship, the S.S. Happy Wanderer, discovers that his able crew has been replaced by totally inexperienced men--the Carry On bunch. High seas hijinks ensue...
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  • Carry On Regardless on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Sid James,  Kenneth Connor,  Charles Hawtrey
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This CARRY ON film features the bumbling workers at the Helping Hands agency--odd people who are capable of botching any task. The cast includes Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, and Kenneth Williams.
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  • Make Mine a Million on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Sid James
    Director: Lance Comfort
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Make Mine A Million stars Sid James as Sid Gibson, a washing detergent salesman, who decides to call on the help of his friend TV make-up artist Arthur (Arthur Askey) in order to obtain some much needed TV advertising time. Arthur slips a plug for Sid's suds into a primetime live TV extravaganza - ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 236 members
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  • Carry On Constable on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Sid James,  Eric Barker,  Kenneth Connor
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sidney James (in his first Carry On role) heads up the cast in this wacky take on law and order. This sorry lot of boys in blue can't seem to get anything right. CARRY ON CONSTABLE also features Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, and Shirley Eaton.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,462 member
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  • Another Time, Another Place on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Lana Turner,  Barry Sullivan,  Glynis Johns
    Director: Lewis Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Sara Scott's world comes crashing down when her romance with British journalist Mark Trevor comes to a tragic end. When Mark's plane crashes, Sara suffers a nervous breakdown before visiting his lover's widow to try and make sense of what's happened.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 85 members
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  • Quatermass 2 on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  John Longden,  Sid James
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which, on his arrival, he finds has been destroyed...
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  • Trapeze on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Gina Lollobrigida,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Carol Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This splashy Hollywood spectacular was a radical departure for a director who had specialized in socially conscious thrillers. Set against a circus backdrop, it stars Burt Lancaster as Mike Ribble, a crippled former acrobat. Tino Orsino (Tony Curtis), a young aerialist, seeks out the older man, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 304 members
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  • Park Plaza 605 on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Tom Conway,  Eva Bartok,  Sid James
    Director: Bernard Knowles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A private dick has a secret rendezvous with a mysterious blonde in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when he wakes up the following morning, she is nowhere to be found, and there's a dead body lying next to him. Now, with the cops--and a gang of gun-toting thugs--hot on his trail, he must solve ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 30 members
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  • Gift Horse on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Trevor Howard,  Richard Attenborough,  James Donald
    Director: Compton Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough star in this famous story of a Royal Navy destroyer and her officers and crew during the early years of the Second World War. H.M.S. Ballantrae is an ex-U.S. Navy destroyer - one of fifty lent by the Americans in 1940 to a desperate Royal Navy fighting to keep ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 23 members
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  • Two In Clover - The Complete Series (2 discs)
    Starring: Sid James,  Victor Spinetti
    Director: Alan Tarrant
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. The classic TV comedy Show featuring Sid James and Victor Spinetti about the men and life on the farm.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 265 members
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  • Bless This House - Complete Series 5 (2 discs)
    Starring: Sid James
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Sid Abbott is an average man, married with a family, employed and constantly finding that his enjoyment in life is sabotaged by the rest of the family. His pleasures are simple; ..read more »
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  • Bless This House - Complete Series 6 (2 discs)
    Starring: Sid James
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Sid Abbott is an average man, married with a family, employed and constantly finding that his enjoyment in life is sabotaged by the rest of the family. His pleasures are simple; ..read more »
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  • Father Brown
    Starring: Gerard Oury,  Joan Greenwood,  Alice Krige
    Director: Robert Hamer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alec Guinness stars as G.K. Chesterton's legendary detective Father Brown in this splendid comedy thriller directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets). When Father Brown hears that Flambeau (Peter Finch), an international art thief, is planning to steal a priceless cross once owned by ..read more »
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  • Legends Of British Comedy - The Very Bes... on DVD
    Starring: Sid James
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A career retrospective of British comedy legend Syd James. From his radio days on HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR, to his participation in the CARRY ON films, James has kept the British public entertained with his bawdy humour. This film provides an in-depth look at his career, as seen through the eyes of ..read more »
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Sid James facts

5 most recent films

Carry On Dick - 3.0 stars
Carry On Girls - 2.5 stars
Carry On Abroad - 3.5 stars
Bless This House - 3.5 stars
Carry On Matron - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 4 - 4.0 stars
Diana Dors - Icon Collection - 4.0 stars
Titfield Thunderbolt - 3.5 stars
Bless This House - Complete Series 5 - 3.5 stars
Bless This House - Complete Series 6 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Raising The Wind - 3 stars
Out of the Clouds - 2.5 stars
Park Plaza 605 - 2.5 stars
Father Brown - 3.0 stars
Will Any Gentleman...? - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Joan Sims - 24 times - show films
Kenneth Williams - 21 times - show films
Charles Hawtrey - 18 times - show films
hattie Jacques - 16 times - show films
Bernard Bresslaw - 15 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Gerald Thomas - 29 times - show films
none - 14 times - show films
Charles Crichton - 4 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 2 times - show films
Cy Endfield - 2 times - show films