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Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes


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  • Billy Liar
  • Billy Liar review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars British Comedy Classic 26 June 2005
    ...d fantasy sequences clearly influenced the Beatles' films which followed it and Rodney Bewes presence is almost a trial run for The Likely Lads TV series. Tom Courtney is m...   Read customer review
  • Spring and Port Wine
  • Spring and Port Wine review by A customer from Staffordshire, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars A REAL SLICE OF ENGLISH FAMILY LIFE 28 January 2010
    ... that struck me. James Mason heads an excellent cast including: Diana Coupland, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon and Susan George : who would all go on to stardom in films or TV...   Read customer review

Rodney Bewes - filmography


  • Jabberwocky on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Annette Badland,  Rodney Bewes,  Harry H. Corbett
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in the medieval period, this light-hearted comedy was written by Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson and stars Michael Palin, supported by the Monty Python team. Dennis Cooper (Palin), a cooper's apprentice, is mistaken for a prince and declared the Dragonslayer. However, he must live up to his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,220 members
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  • The Likely Lads on DVD (1976)
    Starring: James Bolam,  Rodney Bewes,  Brigit Forsyth
    Director: Michael Tuchner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam) find their lifelong friendship beginning to change as Terry becomes involved with a new woman and the lads' weekly drinks sessions stop. Bob is dismayed, but his wife sees the opportunity to get Terry married off and put a wedge between the friends. Of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 714 members
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  • Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - S... (2 discs) on DVD (1974)
    Starring: James Bolam,  Rodney Bewes,  Brigit Forsyth
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Complete second series of the sitcom classic, the follow-up to the earlier 'The Likely Lads', where Terry Collier (James Bolam) has returned from the army to find his northern home town and its inhabitants changed beyond recognition. Out of contact during the intervening years, his best friend Bob ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 486 members
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  • Billy Liar on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Ethel Griffies,  Rodney Bewes,  Gwendolyn Watts
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play visualizes some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,957 members
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  • Billy Liar - Blu-ray (1963)
    Starring: Ethel Griffies,  Rodney Bewes,  Gwendolyn Watts
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play visualizes some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 11 members
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  • Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Patrick Magee,  Rodney Bewes,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Cliff Owen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    British heist thriller. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen with the intention of stealing a £250 000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin (Stanley Baker) recruits Fenner (Tom Bell) and Swavek (Helmut Schmid) to make ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 217 members
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  • The Likely Lads - Series 1 To 3 on DVD
    Starring: James Bolam,  Rodney Bewes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All three series of the classic 1960s British sitcom, about northern lads Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam) as Bob tries to better his life, while Terry is content to live it to the full, pursuing the ladies, or supporting the local team. Episodes from series one are: 'Entente Cordiale'; '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 961 members
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Rodney Bewes facts

5 most recent films

Jabberwocky - 3.0 stars
The Likely Lads - 3.5 stars
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of - 3.5 stars
Dear Mother, Love Albert - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of - 3.5 stars
Spring and Port Wine - 3.5 stars
The Likely Lads - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dear Mother, Love Albert - 1.5 stars
Billy Liar - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Jabberwocky - 3.0 stars
Billy Liar - 3.5 stars
The Likely Lads - Series 1 To 3 - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Bolam - 9 times - show films
Brigit Forsyth - 7 times - show films
Gwendolyn Watts - 3 times - show films
Ethel Griffies - 3 times - show films
Julie Christie - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 7 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 3 times - show films
David Mallet - 2 times - show films
Derrick Goodwin - 2 times - show films
Michael Tuchner - 1 times - show films