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Eric Sykes is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Additional Dialogue British born on 4 may 1923 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Eric Sykes CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on The Goon Show scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.
Disciform macular degeneration, brought about by age and possibly smoking, left Sykes partially sighted, and he was registered as blind. He was a patron of the Macular Disease Society. He stopped smoking cigarettes in November 1966, but continued to smoke cigars until 1998. In 2002 he suffered a stroke and underwent heart bypass surgery.
He married Edith Eleanore Milbrandt on 14 February 1952 and they had three daughters, Catherine, Julie, Susan, and a son, David. In the year Sykes died they marked their 60th wedding anniversary.
In the 2005 New Year Honours List, Sykes was promoted within the Order of the British Empire from Officer (OBE) to Commander (CBE) level. He had been awarded an OBE in 1986 for services to drama, following a petition by MPs. Sykes was an honorary president of the Goon Show Preservation Society.
Sykes was a follower of Oldham Athletic and was an honorary director of the club in the 1970s.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 may 1923 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Death 4 july 2012 (at 89 years) at Esher (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Birth 4 may 1923 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Death 4 july 2012 (at 89 years) at Esher (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Biography
Sykes became partially deaf as an adult. His hearing started to deteriorate in the Second World War, and he had an operation in 1952 followed by another two years later. Recovering from the second procedure he discovered he was profoundly deaf. His spectacles contained no lenses but were a bone-conducting hearing aid.Disciform macular degeneration, brought about by age and possibly smoking, left Sykes partially sighted, and he was registered as blind. He was a patron of the Macular Disease Society. He stopped smoking cigarettes in November 1966, but continued to smoke cigars until 1998. In 2002 he suffered a stroke and underwent heart bypass surgery.
He married Edith Eleanore Milbrandt on 14 February 1952 and they had three daughters, Catherine, Julie, Susan, and a son, David. In the year Sykes died they marked their 60th wedding anniversary.
In the 2005 New Year Honours List, Sykes was promoted within the Order of the British Empire from Officer (OBE) to Commander (CBE) level. He had been awarded an OBE in 1986 for services to drama, following a petition by MPs. Sykes was an honorary president of the Goon Show Preservation Society.
Sykes was a follower of Oldham Athletic and was an honorary director of the club in the 1970s.
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Hallowe'en Party (2010)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Zoë Wanamaker, David Yelland, Amelia Bullmore, Sophie Thompson, Georgia King
Roles Mr Fullerton
Rating77%
Ariadne Oliver prépare Halloween avec une amie et des enfants. L'une d'elles, Joyce, prétend avoir assisté à un meurtre il y a quelques années. Personne ne la croit, sauf qu'elle est retrouvée noyée dans un seau d'eau un peu plus tard. Ariadne fait appel à son ami Poirot pour trouver le meurtrier. Celui-ci est particulièrement intéressé par l'anecdote de la jeune fille...
Son of Rambow (2007)
, 1h36Directed by Garth Jennings
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Films about religion
Actors Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Hynes, Adam Godley, Neil Dudgeon
Roles Frank
Rating69%
Will (Bill Milner) is quiet and shy, and comes from a family that belongs to the strict Plymouth Brethren church. Will is forbidden to watch films or television and is made to leave his classroom when the teacher puts on a documentary. In the corridor, he meets Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the worst-behaved boy in school, thrown out of another class for bad behaviour. They accidentally break a fish bowl in the corridor; Lee volunteers to take the blame, pretending that the punishment is torture, in exchange for Will's watch, which belonged to his dead father. Moreover, Lee demands that Will performs the stunts in a film Lee is making with home video equipment owned by his bullying older brother, Lawrence (Ed Westwick), which Lawrence uses in his video pirating enterprise. He intends to enter the Screen Test Young Film-Makers' Competition.
, 2h37Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Mermaids in film, Harry Potter, Films about dragons, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robert Pattinson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes
Roles Frank Bryce
Rating77%
Harry Potter dreams of Frank Bryce, who is killed after overhearing Lord Voldemort discussing plans with Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew and Barty Crouch Jr. At the Quidditch World Cup, Death Eaters terrorise the spectators, and Crouch Jr. summons the Dark Mark, otherwise known as the curse "Morsmordre".
The Others (2001)
, 1h44Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann
Roles Mr. Edmund Tuttle
Rating76%
Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a devout Roman Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), have an uncommon disease, characterized by photosensitivity, so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules to protect them from inadvertent exposure to sunlight. The arrival of three servants at the house — aging Mrs. Bertha Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), elderly gardener Edmund Tuttle (Eric Sykes), and a mute girl named Lydia (Elaine Cassidy) — coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear they are not alone.
Splitting Heirs (1993)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Young, Roger Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Sadie Frost
Roles Jobson the Doorman
Rating54%
The movie centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth (England), upon which misfortune has befallen throughout history, leading it to believe itself cursed. The most recent heir, Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace, was left in a restaurant as an infant in the 1960s, by the time his parents remembered him, he had disappeared. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, Tommy Patel (Eric Idle) has grown up in an Asian/Indian family in Southall, never doubting his ethnicity despite being taller than anyone else in the house, fair-haired, blue-eyed, light-skinned - and not liking curry. From the family corner-shop he commutes to the City, where he works for the Bournemouth family's stockbroking firm, handling multimillion-pound deals.
Absolute Beginners (1986)
, 1h48Directed by Julien Temple
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, James Fox, Mandy Rice-Davies, Edward Tudor-Pole, Bruce Payne
Roles Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Rating56%
The film takes place in 1958, a time in which pop culture is transforming from 1950s jazz and early rock to a new generation on the verge of the 1960s. London is post-World War II, but pre-Beatles/Stones. The storyline incorporates elements of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots.
The Boys in Blue (1982)
, 1h19Directed by Val Guest
Genres Comedy
Actors Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle, Roy Kinnear, Eric Sykes, Jack Douglas
Roles Chief Constable
Rating45%
Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidentally stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
, 1h18Directed by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Sykes, Robin Bailey, Norman Bird, Glyn Houston, Roy Kinnear, Marc Sinden
Roles Mr. Pangbourne
Rating57%
A Boy Scout troop led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash. It later transpires that the money is just a smokescreen for a top-secret document that the gang's leader - actually a KGB officer - is trying to smuggle out of the country. Despite an escalation of security in which the police are eventually joined by the army, navy and air force, it is the scoutmaster's chaotic bungling that leads him to discover the money and flush out the ringleader. At the end it is revealed that the scoutmaster was in fact an undercover police officer and that his bungling was a ruse.
Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980)
, 28minutesDirected by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Bond-Owen
Rating65%
A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite his lack of ability at the game, that he employs his constable to furtively disentangle his ball from the odd spots in which it usually comes to rest - while his opponent looks for help from a higher power...
The Plank (1979)
, 30minutesDirected by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Lionel Blair, Bernard Cribbins, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors
Roles Taller Workman
Rating73%
Theatre of Blood (1973)
, 1h44Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Serial killer films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Rachael Stirling, Coral Browne
Roles Le sergent Dogge
Rating70%
Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) appears to have committed suicide by diving into the Thames, after being humiliated at an awards ceremony. But he has been secretly rescued by vagrants, who welcome him into their circle. Weakened by meths-addiction, they prove to be a docile crew, that he will use in a campaign of revenge on the drama-critics who failed to salute his genius.
The Alf Garnett Saga (1972)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis, Adrienne Posta, John Le Mesurier, John Bird, Joan Sims
Rating51%
With the Garnetts Wapping home up for demolition, Alf and his family are installed in a high-rise council flat. Alf struggles with ‘living in the sky”, using elevators (which frequently break down due to power cuts "caused by the striking miners") and walking long distances to the local pub.
Rhubarb (1970)
, 37minutesDirected by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry Secombe, Kenneth Connor, Jimmy Edwards, Hattie Jacques, Gordon Rollings, Johnny Speight
Roles Insp. Rhubarb
Rating56%
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Police Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat by removing his golf ball from awkward situations, and the vicar ultimately requests divine intervention.
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
, 2hDirected by Ken Annakin
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Tony Curtis, André Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari, Peter Cook, Terry-Thomas
Roles Perkins
Rating60%
An international car rally in the 1920s attracts competitors from all over the world to compete in the Monte Carlo Rally. The arch rivals from England, Italy, France and Germany find that their greatest competition comes from the United States in the form of Chester Schofield (Tony Curtis), who had won half of an automobile factory in a poker game with the late father of baronet Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas). Ware-Armitage has entered the race in a winner-take-all to exact revenge and win back the lost half of the company.
Shalako (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck
Roles Mako
Rating56%
In 1880 in New Mexico, guide Bosky Fulton leads a hunting party composed of European aristocrats into Apache territory. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar, wanders off alone, she is confronted by Apache men on horseback. She is rescued by Shalako, a former cavalry officer in the American Civil War, sent by the Army to guide the party off Indian land.