TV Legend. Comedy actor who first made a mark as the member of the David Frost team before graduating to his own series in 1968 with The Ronnie Barker Playhouse, the triple whammy of The Two Ronnies, Porridge and Open All Hours made Barker a major presence throughout the seventies and eighties Retired whilst still at the height of his profession to indulge his real love of antiques and Victoriana.
Ronnie Barker proves his versatility with Seven Of One, a 1973 collection of seven single comedies, two of which would lead to his best known series....
Long running, popular BBC comedy sketch series The Two Ronnies starred portly Ronnie Barker and diminutive Ronnie Corbett. Regular segments included Corbett telling a long winded...
The Gamblers was an anthology series which was about people taking a gamble on something – and not necessarily a monetary gamble. Writers included C.P. Taylor,...
In Sitcom Barney Is My Darling, Barney Pank (Bill Fraser) retires from a life at sea. His wife Romana (Irene Handl) is less than impressed at...
Sitcom Bold as Brass detailed the exploits of brass band mad Ernie Briggs (Jimmy Edwards) and his put upon wife Bessie (Beryl Reid). The series grew...
In sitcom Going Straight, after three years, eight months and four days of residing at her majesty’s pleasure at HMP Slade Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker)...
Sitcom The Magnificent Evans was another Roy Clarke vehicle for Ronnie Barker (the two had hit big with Open All Hours) but one that didn’t quite...
A five minute trailer made by the BBC to celebrate their comedy output, with over 40 of the biggest names in comedy each telling one line...
Richard Lester is very much the archetypal British director and also a director par excellence of historical dramas (Four Musketeers, Royal Flash). He also provided flair...
In highly popular sitcom Open All Hours Arkwright, the brown-coated, stuttering, Northern shop-keeper likes to open his corner-shop for as long as the law will permit....
Following on from Hark at Barker and the earlier Ronnie Barker Playhouse, Barker returned with another series of six individual comedies, each written by individual writers...
A collection of sketches (introduced by Angus Deayton) taking an off kilter look at history, the majority of the sketches had been seen throughout the BBC’s...
In Children’s Film Foundation spooky comedy A Ghost of a Chance, a trio of children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark...
Richard Loncraine’s film stars Maggie Smith as Emily Delahunty, a spinster of a certain age who lives in Umbria. Boarding a train for a shopping trip...
Under the steady hand of Ralph Thomas, who directed the other Doctor… films, Dr Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) returns to St Swithins in Doctor in Distress...