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Eric Barker is a Actor and Writer British born on 12 february 1912

Eric Barker

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Birth name Eric Leslie Barker
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 february 1912
Death 1 june 1990 (at 78 years) at Faversham (United-kingdom)

Eric Leslie Barker (12 February 1912 – 1 June 1990) was an English comedy actor. He is most remembered for his roles in the popular British Carry On films, although he only appeared in the early films in the series, apart from returning for Carry On Emmannuelle in 1978.

Biography

He married the actress Pearl Hackney (b. 28 October 1916, d. 18 September 2009) with whom he often worked, though she also had a comedy career of her own. They had a daughter, Petronella Barker, in 1942, who also appeared in films and television between 1964 and 1983. Petronella married Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins in September 1967. They divorced in 1972 and had a daughter in 1967, Abigail Hopkins, who is a singer and actress. He died in Canterbury, Kent and is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Stalisfield Green near Faversham where he had lived for a number of years.

In 1971 Barker was the subject of the British ITV television show This Is Your Life.

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Filmography of Eric Barker (40 films)

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Actor

Carry On Emmannuelle, 1h28
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Jack Douglas, Peter Butterworth, Beryl Reid
Roles Ancient General
Rating32% 1.619031.619031.619031.619031.61903
Emmannuelle Prevert (Suzanne Danielle) relieves the boredom of a flight on Concorde by seducing timid Theodore Valentine (Larry Dann). She returns home to London to surprise her husband, the French Ambassador, Emile Prevert (Kenneth Williams) but first surprises the butler, Lyons (Jack Douglas). He removes her coat only to find she has left her dress on the 'plane! The chauffeur, Leyland (Kenneth Connor), housekeeper, Mrs Dangle (Joan Sims) and aged boot-boy, Richmond (Peter Butterworth) sense saucy times ahead ... and they are right! Emile is dedicated to his bodybuilding, leaving a sexually frustrated Emmannuelle to find pleasure with everyone from the Lord Chief Justice (Llewellyn Rees) to chat show host, Harold Hump (Henry McGee). Theodore is spurned by Emmannuelle, who has genuinely forgotten their airborne encounter and despite reassurances from his mother (Beryl Reid), Theodore exacts revenge by revealing Emmannuelle's antics to the Press. However, after a visit to her doctor (Albert Moses), she discovers she is pregnant and decides to settle down to a faithful marriage with Emile ... and dozens of children.
That's Carry On!, 1h35
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Eric Barker, Amanda Barrie, John Bluthal, Bernard Bresslaw
Roles Various Characters
Rating53% 2.6652352.6652352.6652352.6652352.665235
Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor are imprisoned in a Pinewood Studios projection room and trawl through film can after film can of the classic Carry On series. Kenneth is delighted with the slap-up food hamper and champagne, while Barbara loads the vintage clips. As the films remorselessly play out, Kenneth feels the need to relieve himself but Barbara is determined to plough through every film. Finally, scenes of speedy roadside urinating from Carry On at Your Convenience prove too much for Kenneth to bear but he holds back the flow to enjoy his finest role as the Khasi in Carry On... Up the Khyber. While Kenneth pontificates about the glories of the Empire, Barbara leaves the projection room and locks her co-star in. Unable to hold out any longer, Kenneth goes against the projection room door.
Twinky
Twinky (1970)
, 1h38
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Orson Bean, Honor Blackman
Roles Scottish Clerk
Rating53% 2.65272.65272.65272.65272.6527
A 38-year-old writer of pornographic novels Scott (Charles Bronson) meets and falls in love with a sixteen-year-old school girl (Susan George) whilst living in London.
There's a Girl in My Soup, 1h35
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors, Tony Britton, Gabrielle Drake, Nicky Henson
Roles Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.8505452.8505452.8505452.8505452.850545
Sellers appears as Robert Danvers, a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile cooking show. He meets Hawn's character, a no-nonsense American hippie living with an English rock musician in London, and, to everyone's surprise, falls for her.
Cool It, Carol!
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Robin Askwith, Eric Barker, Harry Baird, Martin Wyldeck, Stubby Kaye
Roles Signalman
Rating55% 2.7612552.7612552.7612552.7612552.761255
The cautionary tale of Joe and Carol, a couple of youngsters who leave the "sticks" behind and journey to swinging London in search of fame and fortune. Joe fails to find employment in the big city, but Carol enrols as a fashion model. As the naïve couple begin to enjoy the night life of London they are drawn ever deeper into a world of alcohol, pornography, drugs and prostitution.
The Best House in London, 1h45
Directed by Philip Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell, John Bird
Rating43% 2.178852.178852.178852.178852.17885
Dans l'Angleterre victorienne dans laquelle la prostitution est réprimée de manière sévère, des jeunes dandys londoniens persuadent le ministre de l'intérieur d'ouvrir un bordel de luxe…
Maroc 7
Maroc 7 (1967)

Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Gene Barry, Elsa Martinelli, Leslie Phillips, Cyd Charisse, Denholm Elliott, Alexandra Stewart
Roles Prof. Bannen
Rating51% 2.5804352.5804352.5804352.5804352.580435
Louise Henderson is the editor of a respected fashion magazine, but she has a hidden career as mastermind of a ring of thieves. With their professional operation as a front, Louise uses one of her models, Claudia, and a photographer, Raymond Lowe, to steal precious artifacts and jewels.
Doctor in Clover, 1h41
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding, Arthur Haynes, James Robertson Justice, Terry Scott
Roles Prof. Halfbeck
Rating57% 2.8576652.8576652.8576652.8576652.857665
The film is based at the (fictitious) St Swithin's Hospital, with Leslie Phillips as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke, an accident-prone doctor and cad, more interested in the nurses than the patients.
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, 1h30
Directed by Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about education, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, Richard Wattis
Roles Culpepper Brown
Rating58% 2.9009252.9009252.9009252.9009252.900925
"Alphonse" Askett (Frankie Howerd) is a hairdresser who is also the operational leader of a gang of crooks who are led behind the scenes by an invisible mastermind (voiced by Stratford Johns). He gives instructions to Askett about the robbery, Operation Windfall, using a variety of James Bond-like communications devices—including a converted showerhead.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes, 2h13
Directed by Don Sharp, Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films
Actors Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alberto Sordi
Roles French Postman
Rating69% 3.497493.497493.497493.497493.49749
A brief narration outlines man's first attempts to fly since the Stone Age due to inspiration by a bird's flight, seen with footage from the Silent Film Era, and man being represented by a "test pilot" (Red Skelton) encountering periodic misfortune in his attempts.
Three Hats for Lisa, 1h39
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, Sid James, Peter Bowles, Jeremy Lloyd
Roles Station Sergeant
Rating53% 2.670492.670492.670492.670492.67049
Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet an Italian movie star at Heathrow airport. She travels with them and their taxi driver in search of some typically British hats. The rule of the game is to steal a hat from its wearer. Lisa wants a bobby's helmet, a businessman's bowler, and the bearskin cap off a palace guard. A musical chase ensues around Swinging Sixties London, evading press and police.
Father Came Too!, 1h31
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Ronnie Barker, Eric Barker, Kenneth Cope
Roles Mr. Gallagher
Rating60% 3.0482853.0482853.0482853.0482853.048285
Dexter (Stanley Baxter) and Juliet (Sally Smith (actress)) Munro are a married couple who move to a run-down cottage in hopes of escaping from Juliet's overbearing father,Sir Beverly Grant (James Robertson Justice).
The Bargee
The Bargee (1964)
, 1h46
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Julia Foster, Miriam Karlin
Roles Mr Parkes, the Foreman
Rating62% 3.1007353.1007353.1007353.1007353.100735
Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett) and his cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Barker) are two boatmen operating a canal-boat and its butty for British Waterways. Though the canals are struggling due to declining traffic, Hemel refuses to leave the canals and is protective of his traditional lifestyle. He also has a reputation as a Don Juan, with girlfriends all across the canal network, something which Ronnie, always unlucky in love, is envious of.
Carry On Spying, 1h27
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
Roles The Chief
Rating62% 3.1027653.1027653.1027653.1027653.102765
A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans). Fearful of what would happen if that formula fell into the wrong hands, the Chief of the Secret Service reluctantly sends the only agent he has left, the bumbling and snide Agent Desmond Simpkins, (Kenneth Williams), and his three trainees, Agent Harold Crump, (Bernard Cribbins), Agent Daphne Honeybutt, (Barbara Windsor), and Agent Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey), to find the formula.