Michael Bentine

Michael Bentine

Nascimento : 1922-01-26, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Morte : 1996-11-26

História

Michael Bentine CBE (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996) was a British comedian, actor and founding member of the Goons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bentine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Michael Bentine

Filmes

O Lixo e a Fúria
Himself (archive footage)
Os Sex Pistols existiram por apenas 26 meses e gravaram um único álbum, mas mudaram a cara da música para sempre. Este filme documenta sua história, do surgimento à implosão da banda. Tendo como pano de fundo a cena política, econômica e social de Londres em meados dos anos 70, descreve um momento chave de transição na história social inglesa. A essência do movimento punk, resultando numa envolvente experiência cultural.
Spike
Himself
Spike personally tells the story of his life from India, World War II to The Goons and his Q series
Rentadick
Husein
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Bachelor of Arts
Writer
An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.
Bachelor of Arts
Miklos Durti
An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.
The Sandwich Man
Writer
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
The Sandwich Man
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
We Joined the Navy
Psychologist
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.
Mildred
Narrator
Comic cartoon for BP.
Mildred
Writer
Comic cartoon for BP.
I Only Arsked
Fred
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
Raising a Riot
The Professor
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
Forces' Sweetheart
John Robinson
Wartime musical comedy.
Down Among the Z Men
Prof. Osrick Pureheart
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.
Lights Out... and the Stars Appear
Narrator (voice)
Here is a short film produced by the UK 9.5mm film club 'Group 9.5' to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 9.5mm 'home movie' film size in 1972. Entitled "Lights Out ... And The Stars Appear", (the title is based on a Pathescope advertisement fron the 1930s), it describes the start and history of this unique film gauge originally developed by the French Pathe-Freres company.
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Self
This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants and mediums to help him make key decisions in his life and work. Many of Sellers important decisions were influenced by Maurice Woodruff - a clairvoyant and astrologer based in London. Advice from the other side was taken on his marriage to Britt Ekland, accepting film roles such as Inspector Clouseau and dealing with his near fatal heart attack.