Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell

Nacimiento : 1912-03-22, Dublin, Ireland

Muerte : 1985-01-18

Historia

Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney.

Perfil

Wilfrid Brambell

Películas

El caballero verde
Porter
Gawain es un escudero del rey Arturo. Un día, irrumpe en Camelot un extraño caballero verde, armado con un hacha, desafiando a que alguien luche con él. Gawain sale en defensa de su rey y decapita al caballero, pero este resucita.
The Terence Davies Trilogy
Robert Tucker (old age)
Trilogía compuesta por los tres primeros cortometrajes de Davies ("Children" (1976), "Madonna and Child" (1980) y "Death and Transfiguration" (1983)), que corresponden a distintas etapas de la vida de Robert Tucker: su opresiva infancia, marcada por los malos tratos de su padre y de sus compañeros de colegio; su madurez como gris oficinista atormentado por su homosexualidad, siempre al lado de su madre; y sus últimos días, en los que se ve asaltado por dolorosos recuerdos del pasado.
Death and Transfiguration
Robert Tucker
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back.
The Island of Adventure
Uncle Jocelyn
Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.
High Rise Donkey
Ben Foxcroft
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by providing a temporary stable for the donkey in the block of high-rise flats.
Las aventuras de Picasso
Alice B. Toklas
Ya en su infancia, Pablo Picasso mostraba talento por la pintura, y por ello es enviado a la Academia de Artes de Madrid. Allí se convierte en pintor, pero ha de vivir en París en la pobreza. Un día es descubierto por un millonario y empieza a ganar dinero conociendo de esta manera a gente famosa de la década de 1920 como Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler y Churchill.
Holiday on the Buses
Bert Thompson
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
Steptoe and Son Ride Again
Steptoe / Albert
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Steptoe and Son
Albert Steptoe
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
Con los dedos cruzados
Beech
Un matrimonio de recién casados se marcha de luna de miel a Bucarest, donde el marido es detenido por los servicios secretos acusado de ser un espía al servicio de Rusia.
Some Will, Some Won't
Henry Russell
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Carry On Again Doctor
Mr. Pullen (uncredited)
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Infancia, vocación y primeras experiencias de Giacomo Casanova, veneciano
Malipieri
Filme en torno a las primeras andanzas del legendario seductor Giacomo Casanova.
Cry WoIf
Delivery man
A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a dangerous situation.
El general Witchfinder
Master Loach
Inglaterra, 1645. La cruenta guerra civil entre monárquicos y parlamentarios que asola el país provoca una época de caos y arbitrariedad jurídica que permite a hombres sin escrúpulos sacar provecho explotando las absurdas supersticiones de los campesinos; como Matthew Hopkins, un monstruo disfrazado de hombre que vaga de pueblo en pueblo ofreciendo sus servicios como cazador de brujas.
Lionheart
Dignett
A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
White Rabbit
Esta película rodada para la televisión se considera la obra que mejor refleja el mundo malsano de la novela de Lewis Carroll.
Where the Bullets Fly
Train Guard
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
San Ferry Ann
Grandad
A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge and Joan Sims) create chaos from the moment they set their tires on the shore resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarme, while Lewd Grandad (Wilfred Brambell) finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend, a mad German ex-soldier (Ron Moody). Also aboard for the ride is a saucy hitchhiker (Barbara Windsor) who causes a few heads to turn including that of a fellow traveller (Ronnie Stevens) who pursues her affection with comic results. By the end of this weekend the French may well be wishing to say 'au revoir' to these trouble-making tourists. San Ferry Ann is a humorous take on the tradition of the British get-away. A classic sound effect comedy that sits with the likes of similarly praised titles such as 'The Plank', 'Futtock's End' and 'Rhubarb Rhubarb'.
The Importance of Being Earnest
TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young ward, Cecily. And he intends to propose to Gwendolyn--that is until he discovers that she loves him because his name is Ernest.
¡Qué noche la de aquel día!
Grandfather
Por primera vez los Beatles han decidido romper todas las reglas: saltarse el programa, ignorar sus obligaciones y saborear la libertad. Pero, para ello, tendrán que dar esquinazo a sus admiradores, esquivar a los periodistas y desobedecer a sus mánagers.
Go Kart Go
Junkman Fred
Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.
Crooks in Cloisters
Phineas
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Harry
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Los hijos del capitán Grant
Bill Gaye
Mary y Robert, hijos del capitán Grant, reciben un día la visita del profesor Panagel, que ha encontrado en una botella un mensaje del capitán. Pronto organizarán una expedición para intentar rescatar a su padre. Los jóvenes se verán envueltos en una aventura llena de situaciones peligrosas en la que tendrán que enfrentarse a crueles indígenas, traficantes de armas e inclemencias de la naturaleza, entre otros peligros.
The Boys
Norman Albert Brewer
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
The Sinister Man
Lock-Keeper
When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
What a Whopper
Postie
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
Fuego en las calles
Mr. Palmer senior
A finales de los años cincuenta, la sociedad británica experimenta un cierto clima de odio racial, que afecta sobremanera a los trabajadores de color, inmigrantes en su mayoría, que sienten la animadversión de algunos de sus jefes y de sus compañeros. Este no es el caso de Jacko Palmer, un artesano que realiza su oficio en una fábrica londinense, siempre dispuesto a ayudar a la comunidad negra. No obstante, la actitud que adopta Jacko Palmer en relación a este tema, se pone nuevamente a prueba cuando su hija Kathie se enamora de un colega suyo, el maestro de escuela de raza negra, originario de Jamaica, Peter Lincoln. Su convicción personal lleva a Jacko a aceptar la relación, pero encuentra la oposición de su esposa Nell. Tan sólo una revuelta que enfrenta a una banda de hampones con un grupo de jamaicanos indefensos hace recapacitar a Nell y, de esta forma, aceptar el futuro matrimonio entre su hija y el joven antillano.
Serious Charge
Verger
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
Captured
Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
The Salvage Gang
Tramp
Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.
Break-In
A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Old Man / Thin Prisoner
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
La isla soñada
Arthur Moore
El joven dublinés, Gulliver Sheils, fantasea sobre como escaparía de su vida monótona y se iría a los Mares del Sur, a Tahiti. Careciendo del dinero para tal empresa, empieza a merodear por fuera del Colegio de Trinidad con la esperanza de rescatar a una persona rica de un accidente de tráfico que lo recompensará para su heroísmo.
Larga es la noche
Standing Passenger on Tram (uncredited)
Irlanda, principios del siglo XX. Johnny McQueen es uno de los militantes más importantes del Sinn Fein, el brazo político del IRA (1905), cuyo objetivo es la independencia de Irlanda. La necesidad de conseguir fondos para financiar la lucha armada lo lleva a elaborar un plan para atracar un banco.