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Ronnie Barker - A Home Of Your Own review by A customer from Lake District, England.

A little tired after all this time 11 September 2006
...njoy the others (seaside etc) then you'll probably enjoy this but it IS dated. Bill Fraser is there (remember Snudge?) Bernard Cribbins, Richard Briers (looking extremel... Read customer review

Bill Fraser - filmography

Puccini on DVD (1984)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Robert Stephens, Bill Fraser
Director: Tony Palmer
Certificate:
The composer of some of the world's most popular operas became involved in an appalling scandal which nearly ruined his career. Puccini's tragic story unfolds in this dramatic programme.

53% from 23 members

Flesh And Blood - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD (1980)
Starring: Thora Hird, Bill Fraser, Michael Jayston
Director: Terence Dudley
Certificate:
Features the complete episodes from the first series of the television drama that follows a family at breaking point.

56% from 58 members

Flesh And Blood - Part 2 (2 discs) on DVD (1980)
Starring: Thora Hird, Bill Fraser, Michael Jayston
Director: Terence Dudley
Certificate:
Features episodes 6-10 from the television drama that follows a family at breaking point.

52% from 39 members

Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 (2 discs) on DVD (1979)
Starring: Leo McKern, Peter Whitaker, Edward de Souza
Director: Brian Farnham, Peter Hammond
Certificate:
Leo McKern stars in this long-running series as Horace Rumpole, an eccentric London defence lawyer. Rumpole must contend with various difficult cases as wekk as his wife. This release features the entire second series.

72% from 393 members

Not Now, Darling on DVD (1973)
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Julie Ege, Moira Lister
Director: David Croft, Ray Cooney
Certificate:
In order to give his prospective mistress a gift of an expensive mink coat without upsetting her husband, Gilbert Bodley agrees to sell it to her cheap and pay the majority of the price himself. However, things are never as simple as they seem and what appears at first to be a fairly uncomplicated ..read more »

53% from 105 members

Up The Front on DVD (1972)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley
Director: Bob Kellett
Certificate:
In Frankie Howerd's third UP... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow ..read more »

59% from 330 members

Up Pompeii / Up The Chastity Belt (2 discs) on DVD (1971)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Patrick Cargill, Michael Hordern
Director: Bob Kellett
Certificate:
A double helping of Frankie Howerd films on one saucy disc. UP POMPEII sees him reprise his role as Roman slave Lucio who accidentally discovers a scroll naming those Romans who are plotting to murder Emperor Nero. His attempts to infiltrate the group soon descend into a hilarious farce. In UP THE ..read more »

63% from 756 members

Ronnie Barker - A Home Of Your Own on DVD (1964)
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Bernard Cribbins, Richard Briers
Director: Jay Lewis
Certificate:
A groundbreaking comedy and a subtle satire of the UK building industry in the 1960s (which is still frighteningly relevant today!), an excellent cast of comedians in their early days (Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth, Bernard Cribbins) will have you rolling in the aisles!

66% from 309 members

Bootsie And Snudge - Series 1 - Complete (1960)
Starring: Clive Dunn, Alfie Bass, Robert Dorning
Director: none
Certificate:
Spinning off from Granada's phenomenally successful sitcom The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge charts the Civvy Street misadventures of former National Serviceman 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying sergeant, Claude Snudge, now employed within the august environs of a gentlemen's club. Alfie Bass ..read more »

50% from 6 members
Not available for rental

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 360 members

The Army Game - Vol. 1 (3 discs)
Starring: Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Frank Williams
Certificate:
A colossal success in its day, THE ARMY GAME featured the humorous shenanigans of a mismatched bunch of National Service conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping. The series - which ran for 154 episodes over five years - featured the talents of William Hartnell, ..read more »

54% from 191 members
Not available for rental

The Army Game - Vol. 2 (3 discs)
Starring: Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, William Hartnell
Director: Eric Fawcett, Gordon Flemyng
Certificate:
The second of two volumes containing every episode remaining in the archives of the immensely popular army-based sitcom from the 1950s in which a group of conscripts are determined to dodge duty and have fun while they are serving out their time.

63% from 74 members
Not available for rental

Bill Fraser facts

5 most recent films

Puccini - 2.5 stars
Flesh And Blood - Part 1 - 3.0 stars
Flesh And Blood - Part 2 - 2.5 stars
Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Not Now, Darling - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars
Ronnie Barker - A Home Of Your Own - 3.5 stars
Up Pompeii / Up The Chastity Belt - 3.0 stars
The Army Game - Vol. 2 - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bootsie And Snudge - Series 1 - Complete - 2.5 stars
Puccini - 2.5 stars
Flesh And Blood - Part 2 - 2.5 stars
Not Now, Darling - 2.5 stars
The Army Game - Vol. 1 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alfie Bass - 9 times - show films
William Hartnell - 4 times - show films
Dick Emery - 4 times - show films
Lance Percival - 4 times - show films
Ted Lune - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Terence Dudley - 6 times - show films
Mike Newell - 5 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Gordon Flemyng - 4 times - show films
Eric Fawcett - 4 times - show films