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Bill Owen
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Filmography
Bill Owen - what members say
review by A customer from KENT ENGLAND
Last of the summer wine 14 June 2006
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Theatre at its Finest 22 August 2005
review by A customer from Doncaster
Vintage Wine 8 November 2010
Bill Owen - filmography
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 21 and ...
(2000)
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton
Director: Alan J. W. Bell
Certificate: 
Two more series of the long running BBC comedy. Three elderly delinquents have a series of wacky misadventures as they enjoy their retirement. The envy of their hen-pecked married friends, they embark on mischievous stunts as if in their second childhood. Old age never seemed so much fun!
 
63%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Laughterhouse
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Ian Holme, Bill Owen, Penelope Wilton
Director: Richard Eyre
Certificate: 
This gentle comedy relates the story of one man's determination in the face of unsurmountable odds and five hundred pairs of webbed feet that waddled their way into the heart of a nation.
45%
from 12 members
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In Celebration
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Brian Cox, Alan Bates, Bill Owen
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Made as part of the 'American Film Theatre' in which plays were filmed and then shown at the cinema. This is the story of an English family and their gathering together for the parents' wedding anniversary. Three grown sons argue while Mum wanders about aimlessly and Dad waits for the next crisis.
63%
from 168 members
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 1 And 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Bill Owen, Kathy Staff, John Comer
Director: Alan J.W. Bell
Certificate:
The complete first and second series of the televsion comedy. Features the episodes 'Short Back And Palais Guide', 'Inventor Of The Forty Foot Ferret', 'Pate And Chips', 'Spring Fever', 'The New Mobile Trio' and 'Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts', 'Forked Lightning', 'Who's That Dancing With Nora ..read more »
65%
from 1,119 member
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Carry On Cabby
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Sid James, hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor
Director: Gerald Thomas
Certificate:
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 »
68%
from 1,723 member
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Carry On Regardless
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Director: Gerald Thomas
Certificate:
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.
64%
from 1,522 member
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Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna), a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France...
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a ..read more »
72%
from 428 members
Not available for rental
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Carry On Sergeant
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Barker
Director: Gerald Thomas
Certificate: 
This is the classic first CARRY ON film. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell) hopes to retire in a blaze of glory by winning the Star Squad prize with his final platoon. However, these recruits (Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, and other CARRY ON regulars) turn out to be a ..read more »
66%
from 1,588 member
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Carry On Nurse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Shirley Eaton, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor
Director: Gerald Thomas
Certificate:
CARRY ON NURSE, the second film in the classic comedy series, focuses on a men's hospital ward. When the patients tire of the intimidating matron (Hattie Jacques), they revolt, leading to plenty of silliness. The movie also stars Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Shirley Eaton, Joan Sims, Kenneth ..read more »
59%
from 2,183 members
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen
Director: Ralph Thomas
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A Day to Remember is a 1953 British comedy drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring an ensemble cast including Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen and Thora Hird. The darts team of a London public house go on a day trip to Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. Members of the party have ..read more »
61%
from 15 members
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Odile Versois, Donald Sinden
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate: 
Arts history programme following the sculptor Paul Day as he creates the Battle of Brtain Monument sited on London's Victoria Embankment. As well as exploring Day's career and his thoughts on his commission, the programme also focuses on the Battle of Britain itself and includes interviews with ..read more »
22%
from 5 members
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Once A Jolly Swagman
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Renee Asherson
Director: Jack Lee
Certificate:
Bill Fox is a factory worker in the 1930s who leaves his job to become a motorbike rider. He soon becomes succesful but his ego expands until a tragedy on the racecourse brings him back to his senses...
70%
from 40 members
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My Brother's Keeper
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson
Director: Alfred Roome
Certificate:
George Martin (Jack Warner) and Willie Stannard (George Cole) are handcuffed together and on their way to a West Country jail when they escape and go on the run. Martin is a hardened, dangerous criminal, but Stannard is a simple-minded youth who claims he is innocent of the crime for which he is ..read more »
62%
from 31 members
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Easy Money
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Jack Warner, Petula Clark, Dennis Price
Director: Bernard Knowles
Certificate:
Be careful what you wish for: as this compendium about the perils of getting rich quick shows, money doesn’t always buy happiness.
Here are four stories that show the down side to high living: a family scoops the pools but it nearly tears them apart and a mild mannered clerk wins the jackpot with ..read more »
63%
from 22 members
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When the Bough Breaks
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Patricia Roc, Rosamund John, Patrick Holt
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Certificate:
A young working mother, Lily Bates (Patricia Roc), is nursing her new-born baby in a London maternity hospital when a police inspector informs her that ‘her husband’ has been arrested as a bigamist. Despite living in a society that frowns upon single mothers, Lily decides to overcome these ..read more »
65%
from 19 members
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 15 And ...
(4 discs)
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde
Director: none
Certificate:
Two more series of the long running BBC comedy. Three elderly delinquents have a series of wacky misadventures as they enjoy their retirement. The envy of their hen-pecked married friends, they embark on mischievous stunts as if in their second childhood. Old age never seemed so much fun! Features ..read more »
79%
from 78 members
Not available for rental
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Not So Dusty
on DVD
Starring: Bill Owen, Leslie Dwyer, Dandy Nichols
Director: Maclean Rodgers
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Two Dustmen come into possession of a valuable book - thanks to a good deed. The subsequent plot centres on their attempts to sell the book and the donor's sister's devious attempts to retrieve it.
58%
from 41 members
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 9 And 10
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis
Director: Alan J.W. Bell
Certificate:
With Foggy off to pastures new, it's time to welcome a new face to Holmfirth - that once quiet backwater in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales - in the form of Seymour Utterthwaite, former headmaster and amateur inventor. And invent he certainly does. So look out shoppers, there could soon be some new ..read more »
77%
from 192 members
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 19 and ...
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton
Director: Alan J. W. Bell
Certificate:
Two more series of the long running BBC comedy. Three elderly delinquents have a series of wacky misadventures as they enjoy their retirement. The envy of their hen-pecked married friends, they embark on mischievous stunts as if in their second childhood. Old age never seemed so much fun!
60%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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...This is classic comedy. Bill Owen made this series, the latest summer wines are not a patch on the old ones. This was one fantastic comedy series, no matter how many tim...
