Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell

Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney.

  • Title: Wilfrid Brambell
  • Popularity: 7.542
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-03-22
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Wilfred Brambell, Wilfred Bramble
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Wilfrid Brambell Movies

  • 1964
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    A Hard Day's Night

    A Hard Day's Night

    7.3 1964 HD

    Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent...

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  • 1984
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    Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    5.2 1984 HD

    Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the...

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  • 1972
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    Steptoe & Son

    Steptoe & Son

    6.469 1972 HD

    Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk...

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  • 1968
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    Witchfinder General

    Witchfinder General

    6.4 1968 HD

    England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness...

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  • 1962
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    In Search of the Castaways

    In Search of the Castaways

    6.4 1962 HD

    Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the...

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  • 1983
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    Death and Transfiguration

    Death and Transfiguration

    5.9 1983 HD

    A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

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  • 1983
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    The Terence Davies Trilogy

    The Terence Davies Trilogy

    6.3 1983 HD

    In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood,...

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  • 1973
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    Holiday on the Buses

    Holiday on the Buses

    7.7 1973 HD

    Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers...

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  • 1973
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    Steptoe & Son Ride Again

    Steptoe & Son Ride Again

    6.7 1973 HD

    Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at...

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  • 1964
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    Crooks in Cloisters

    Crooks in Cloisters

    5.4 1964 HD

    Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a...

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  • 1970
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    Some Will, Some Won't

    Some Will, Some Won't

    6 1970 HD

    Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

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  • 1948
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    Another Shore

    Another Shore

    5.1 1948 HD

    A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

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  • 1966
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    Where the Bullets Fly

    Where the Bullets Fly

    4.5 1966 HD

    In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,

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  • 1965
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    San Ferry Ann

    San Ferry Ann

    6.9 1965 HD

    A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family...

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  • 1959
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    Captured

    Captured

    4.6 1959 HD

    Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British...

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  • 1960
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    Urge to Kill

    Urge to Kill

    5.25 1960 HD

    A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.

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  • 1958
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    The Salvage Gang

    The Salvage Gang

    6.3 1958 HD

    Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital.

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  • 1969
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    Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

    Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

    6 1969 HD

    Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century...

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  • 1964
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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    1 1964 HD

    TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young...

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  • 1961
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    The Sinister Man

    The Sinister Man

    1 1961 HD

    When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.

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  • 1962
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    The Boys

    The Boys

    7.75 1962 HD

    A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of...

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  • 1963
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    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    6.1 1963 HD

    The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

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  • 1961
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    What a Whopper

    What a Whopper

    6.2 1961 HD

    A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't...

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  • 1968
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    Cry WoIf

    Cry WoIf

    6 1968 HD

    A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a...

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  • 1980
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    High Rise Donkey

    High Rise Donkey

    1 1980 HD

    The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by...

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  • 1968
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    Lionheart

    Lionheart

    6 1968 HD

    A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.

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  • 1964
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    Go Kart Go

    Go Kart Go

    6.5 1964 HD

    Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.

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  • 1971
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    Catch Me a Spy

    Catch Me a Spy

    4.6 1971 HD

    While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture...

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  • 1966
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    7.375 1966 HD

    Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...

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  • 1959
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    Serious Charge

    Serious Charge

    6.4 1959 HD

    Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears...

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  • 1954
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    7.4 1954 HD

    A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a...

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets

    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

    Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets...

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  • 1978
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    The Adventures of Picasso

    The Adventures of Picasso

    7.1 1978 HD

    Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live...

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  • 1981
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    The Island of Adventure

    The Island of Adventure

    4.5 1981 HD

    Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.

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  • 1956
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    Break-In

    Break-In

    1 1956 HD

    A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime.

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  • 1969
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    Carry On Again Doctor

    Carry On Again Doctor

    6.1 1969 HD

    Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he...

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  • 1947
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    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out

    7.31 1947 HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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  • 1962
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    Steptoe and Son

    Steptoe and Son

    7.774 1962 HD

    Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who...

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  • 1977
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    Citizen Smith

    Citizen Smith

    6.25 1977 HD

    Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie...

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  • 1956
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    The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

    6 1956 HD

    The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1970
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Adventures of William Tell

    The Adventures of William Tell

    6.3 1958 HD

    The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC...

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

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  • 1955
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    Quatermass II

    Quatermass II

    6.1 1955 HD

    The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His...

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  • 1958
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    The Larkins

    The Larkins

    7 1958 HD

    'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to...

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1995
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    The Beatles Anthology

    The Beatles Anthology

    8.081 1995 HD

    A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.

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  • 1950
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    Sunday Night Theatre

    Sunday Night Theatre

    3.5 1950 HD

    Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The...

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