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Jack Smethurst is a Actor British born on 9 april 1932
Jack Smethurst (born 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English TV and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.
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Jack Smethurst
Jack Smethurst (born 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English TV and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.
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King Ralph (1991)
, 1h37Directed by David S. Ward
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Phillips
Roles Miranda's Father
Rating54%
The entire House of Wyndham (based on the House of Windsor), the ruling family of the United Kingdom in the film, is electrocuted in a freak accident while posing for a family photograph, after a cable becomes wet during a storm. The British government immediately begins a search led by courtier and royal private secretary Sir Cedric Willingham to look for any surviving heirs to whom to pass the crown. A researcher finally locates a living heir named Ralph Jones, an American rock and roll musician.
Chariots of Fire (1981)
, 1h59Directed by Hugh Hudson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Athletics films, Films about the Olympic Games, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Ian Holm
Roles Sleeping Car Attendant
Rating70%
In 1919, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club. He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12. Abrahams achieves an undefeated string of victories in various national running competitions. Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil (Alice Krige).
Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
, 1h25Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams, Bill Fraser, Charles Hyatt, Patricia Hayes
Roles Eddie Booth
Rating59%
Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour. Unbeknown to their husbands Joan and Barbie enter a Love Thy Neighbour competition to win a cruise, but are unsure how to get around the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to the problems Joan's Mother In Law is coming to stay, and Barbie has her Father In Law Coming from Trinidad. What will Bill and Eddie do when they realise their parents get on?
For the Love of Ada (1972)
, 1h28Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Handl, Jack Smethurst, Patsy Kensit, Arthur English, Larry Martyn, Hilda Braid
Roles Leslie Pollitt
Rating57%
An elderly couple are about to celebrate the first anniversary of their wedding, and their friends and neighbours plan a surprise party.
Please Sir! (1971)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
Roles Bus Driver
Rating60%
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistic teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues Penny Wheeler, the local barmaid, and the class indulge in their usual activities.
Doctor in Clover (1966)
, 1h41Directed 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 Long-Haired Patient (Uncredited)
Rating57%
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.
A Kind of Loving (1962)
, 1h47Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Dame Thora Hird, James Bolam, Jack Smethurst, Patsy Rowlands
Roles Conroy
Rating72%
Victor 'Vic' Brown (Bates) is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her. When he learns he has made her pregnant Vic proposes marriage and the couple move in with Ingrid's domineering mother, Mrs Rothwell (Thora Hird), who disapproves of the match. Ingrid has a miscarriage, Vic has regrets and comes home drunk. The couple then consider the possibility of making do with 'a kind of loving'.
On the Fiddle (1961)
, 1h26Directed by Cyril Frankel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King, Eric Barker
Roles Dai Tovey
Rating58%
During the Second World War, spiv Horace Pope is taken to court for street peddling. In mitigation he tells the judge he is only working in the black market while waiting to enlist in the war effort. On hearing this plea, the judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up.
, 1h29Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington, Peter Madden
Roles Waiter (uncredited)
Rating74%
Arthur Seaton is a young machinist at a Nottingham factory. He is determined not to be tied down to living a life of domestic drudgery like the people around him, including his parents, whom he describes as "dead from the neck up". He spends his wages at weekends on drinking and having a good time.
Watch Your Stern (1960)
, 1h30Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims
Roles Sailor
Rating58%
When the crew of a British warship lose the plans for a top-secret torpedo, they try and hide the fact from an Admiral and an Admiralty scientist.
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
, 1h24Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen
Roles First Recruit
Rating62%
Newly married Mary Sage (Shirley Eaton) is distraught when her husband Charlie (Bob Monkhouse) receives his call-up papers during their wedding breakfast. He travels to Heathercrest National Service Depot, meeting fellow recruit Horace Strong (Kenneth Connor), a terminal hypochondriac who is devastated at having been passed as fit.