Warren Mitchell

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.

A modern version of the classic Dickens tale, in which Eddie Scrooge is a mean loan shark who sees the error of his ways.

Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.

In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) vents his spleen on all manner of sensitive subjects. He makes political correctness take a back seat as he gives his opinions on race relations, football, life, the government, sex, drugs and much more.

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'. It is a celebration - of Brahms' unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music. Warren Mitchell portrays the composer

Willy Loman clings to the belief that he is a success as a salesman, that he is a beloved family man, that he is well-liked; but, as he grows older, he is forced to contemplate the unpleasant reality of his existence.

Marking 40 years in show business, legendary comedian and entertainer Ken Dodd presents this comedy extravaganza, entertaining a host of celebrities including Frank Carson, Samantha Fox and Warren Mitchell.

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.

The grandson of a war veteran is found dead from an overdose of heroin. He and his old army buddies swing into action and stake out the drug dealer, only to discover a web of police corruption surrounding the drug dealing. Given police complicity in the matter, they take the law into their own hands.

A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he joins them, but being colour blind in this town makes life very difficult.

Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.

At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

La película narra la odisea de dos animales que se escapan de un centro biológico, donde son sometidos a todo tipo de ensayos y barbaridades. La historia transcurre en dos lineas paralelas que convergen en el mismo objeto; el destino de los perros fugados.

The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

Biografía de G.I. Gurdjieff a través de sus viajes y el descubrimiento de la música espiritual. En 1920, un hombre llegó a Europa procedente del Este... donde había vivido extraordinarias experiencias. Su nombre era George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Esta es la historia de sus años jóvenes.

Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.

Michael Palin interpreta a un campesino del medievo que tratará de matar a un monstruo que está arrasando los pueblos allá por donde pasa.

Charley Farthing is on the run, chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind.

TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".

Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.

Un agente de la organización británica K, especializada en espionaje, sufre un desequilibrio emocional debido a las torturas sufridas tras caer en poder del enemigo. A pesar de ello, lo eligen para llevar a cabo una peligrosa misión: se trata de encontrar a un científico ruso que ha escapado de una cárcel siberiana. El principal problema es que el KGB también lo está buscando.

Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife, rebellious daughter and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband.

Two-hander TV Play featuring Edward Woodward and Warren Mitchell

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russell. Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.

Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman he must make his family more socially acceptable.

En el 2021 un samurái del espacio es contratado por un magnate lunar para llevar a cabo una difícil misión. Un asteroide amenaza con introducirse en la órbita lunar y su cometido consiste en evitar este desastre. Sin embargo, las intenciones de su jefe son distintas.

Principios del siglo XX. Una intrépida periodista se propone desmantelar una organización internacional de criminales. Aunque su propósito parece descabellado y muy peligroso, la situación cambia cuando el jefe de la banda se enamora de ella.

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.

Los hermanos David y Michael Tremayne elaboran un plan para robar las joyas de la Corona, que se hallan dentro de una cámara blindada de la Torre de Londres. Mientras que David, que es arquitecto, estudia un mapa del edificio, Michael se ocupa de la estrategia, basándose en los conocimientos adquiridos en la escuela militar de la que acaba de ser expulsado. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nick planea matar a su mujer, pero no sabe que ella alberga las mismas intenciones.

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

Una joven viuda se propone consequir un nuevo marido y un padre para su bebé. Su jefe le parece el hombre ideal y decide enamorarlo. Para ello deja a su hijo al cuidado de un atractivo vecino que termina enamorándose de ella.

Un alienígena secuestra seres humanos de raza femenina para poder llevarlas a Ganímedes y que su raza no se vea condenada a la extinción.

A pesar de que sus últimas misiones son bastante irrelevantes, el agente secreto británico Alec Leamas no desea abandonar la clandestinidad para ocupar un despacho oficial. Su nueva misión en la Alemania Oriental parece más interesante: consiste en hacerse pasar por un desertor y para que su deserción resulte verosímil se las ingenia para desacreditarse y desacreditar a sus jefes hasta conseguir que lo expulsen de la agencia de inteligencia británica. De este modo no le resulta díficil entrar en los círculos de espionaje comunistas. Sin embargo, el agente acaba descubriendo que su misión es una simple tapadera y él un instrumento al servicio de un complot secreto.

"Help" fue la segunda película que Richard Lester hizo con los Beatles, una comedia que simboliza el cine más libre, enloquecido y pop de los años 60.

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'.

A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?

Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...

El Dr. Davidson (Neville) investiga junto al Dr. Monroe (Mitchell) y al Prof. Lancaster (Stone) una extraña fórmula. Cuando el Dr. Monroe fallece en circunstancias extrañas, un Superior del Gobierno, el Mayor Clarke (Newell), decide suspender a Davidson del proyecto y se interesa por la mujer de éste (Licudi) pensando que podría estar involucrada.

After spending a long time in prison, Kip is still willing to pull off one more big job

Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Mafia boss who has spilled the beans back in the States.

In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.

A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.

La crítica y el público dicen que Karen Stone es demasiado vieja - a medida que se acerca a los 50 años - para su papel en una obra de teatro que está a punto de estrenar en Broadway. Su esposo, un hombre de negocios 20 años mayor que ella, que ha sido el sostén de la obra, le da una salida: ir de vacaciones a Roma por motivos de salud. Él sufre un ataque cardíaco fatal en el avión. La Sra. Stone se queda en Roma y alquila un magnífico apartamento con vista a las siete colinas desde la terraza, comenzando a relacionarse con la sociedad romana. La condesa Magda le presenta a un joven llamado Paolo; la condesa conoce a muchos jóvenes presentables y muchas viudas americanas solitarias. Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor www.DeepL.com/Translator

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty

Tras ser violada, una joven sirvienta sordomuda da a luz a una criatura aparentemente normal. Pero a medida que el niño crece comienza a dar señales de un extraño comportamiento; sus incontrolables reacciones durante las noches de luna llena anuncian una terrorífica metamorfosis.

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

La prisión de Huntleigh es un auténtico paraíso para los reclusos, sobre todo para tres de ellos que incluso planean cometer un valioso robo de diamantes, sin que nadie llegue a sospechar de ellos.

Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.

Un joven que trabaja en un banco de Valencia toma "prestado" un millón de pesetas, con el fin de que su padre pueda pagar la reparación del taxi. Como resultado, le persigue no sólo la policía, sino una serie de hampones que desean apoderarse del botín.

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.

When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Eaton, a charming American girl; among the guests are Mary Carlton, Jill's American friend, and Antoinette, a vivacious redhead. However, when the last shore-boat is deemed unseaworthy, the girls are obliged to spend the night on ship. A series of hilarious complications ensue, as the officers attempt to keep the girls away from the beady eyes of Admiral Hewitt – who chooses this very night to board the Scotia.

En los Alpes suizos unos extraterrestes con forma de ojo, que se ocultan tras una nube radioactiva, se hacen con el dominio telepático de los lugareños, a los que terminan decapitando.

James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.

"Mountain" McClintock is over the hill as a boxer, but his corrupt manager keeps putting him back in the ring.

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.