Jerold Wells
Nascimento : 1908-08-08, Wallington, Hampshire, England
Morte : 1999-07-19
História
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Jerold Wells (8 August 1908 - 19 July 1999) was an English actor. He appeared primarily in British comedies. Some of his best-known roles were in Time Bandits, where he played Benson, a mentally disturbed follower to Evil, and in Jabberwocky, where he played a footless man known as Wat Dabney. He also had a career in television, where he appeared in The Two Ronnies, The Old Curiosity Shop, and The Benny Hill Show. He was born in Wallington, Hampshire and died in Bath, Somerset.
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Herbert
A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.
Kramer
Fisher chega ao Cairo depois de ter conduzido um inquérito sobre um homicídio na Europa. Ele mal se lembra do que aconteceu e procura a ajuda de uma terapia. Sob hipnose, viaja através da memória e da sua dor... pela Europa.
Benson
Seis anões, perseguidos por um certo Ser Supremo, escoltam um adolescente inglês através do tempo. Usando um mapa, eles viajam no tempo ao mesmo tempo em que fogem dos perigos. Ótimo roteiro, repleto de idéias originais e engraçadas, com direção brilhante de Terry Gilliam e o humor típico do grupo Monty Python.
Wat Dabney
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Landlord
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Foulkes
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.
Sergeant
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Waiter (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Uma antologia de cinco histórias de horror compartilhadas por cinco homens presos no porão de um prédio de escritórios.
Tramp
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Landlord
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Boleyn Axeman (uncredited)
O rei Henrique VIII (Richard Burton) apaixona-se pela jovem Anna Bolena (Geneviève Bujold). Casado com Catarina de Aragão, que não lhe deu um herdeiro homem, não mede esforços para ficar com Anna, rompendo com a Igreja Católica e criando a Igreja Anglicana. Mas Anna também não consegue lhe dar seu tão esperado filho homem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Ball and Chain Man
Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
Convict
Sailing too far from shore, the Robinson children are marooned on a deserted Island. Their fight for survival is hampered by mysterious events, and the even more mysterious 'Ghost of Monk's Island'.
Giles
Jeff Farrell está de férias no sul da França quando se apaixona por Eve e ao mesmo tempo cultiva uma atração pela filha da mulher, Annette. O marido de Eve está preso há quatro anos por ter violentado Annette, mas ela planeja ajudá-lo a fugir. Jeff, achando que garantiria o amor de Eve, colabora com o plano sem saber que a mulher tem idéias completamente diferentes.
Penal Colony Master
Um homem, exilado por seu pai em uma colônia penal, retorna e tem que enfrentar os piratas que inadvertidamente conduziu a sua aldeia.
Sydney - Large Nightwatchman
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
George Burling / Ned Barrett
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Charlie Spence
Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.
1st Irishman (uncredited)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Wally
This film contains three short stories about life in Australia in the 1950's.
