Frankie Howerd

Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.

  • Title: Frankie Howerd
  • Popularity: 3.958
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-03-06
  • Place of Birth: York, Yorkshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Francis Alick Howard
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Frankie Howerd Movies

  • 1967
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    Carry On Doctor

    Carry On Doctor

    6.4 1967 HD

    Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his...

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  • 1972
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    Up the Chastity Belt

    Up the Chastity Belt

    3.8 1972 HD

    A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity...

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  • 1971
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    Up Pompeii

    Up Pompeii

    6.1 1971 HD

    A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands,...

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  • 1966
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    The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

    The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

    5.8 1966 HD

    The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

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  • 1978
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    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    4.4 1978 HD

    A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must...

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  • 1970
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    Carry On Up the Jungle

    Carry On Up the Jungle

    5.9 1970 HD

    The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the...

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  • 1972
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    Up the Front

    Up the Front

    4.1 1972 HD

    In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth....

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  • 1982
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    Trial By Jury

    Trial By Jury

    1 1982 HD

    In a breach of promise case, the Learned Judge and Jury are somewhat smitten by the pretty Plaintiff's charms, and the Defendant is hard pressed to...

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  • 1982
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    H.M.S. Pinafore

    H.M.S. Pinafore

    9 1982 HD

    The D'Oyly Carte production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Love blossoms between members of different social classes among a general...

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  • 1977
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    That's Carry On!

    That's Carry On!

    5.762 1977 HD

    Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood...

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  • 1953
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    The Runaway Bus

    The Runaway Bus

    5.9 1953 HD

    When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another...

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  • 1983
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    Cilla Black's Christmas Eve

    Cilla Black's Christmas Eve

    1 1983 HD

    Special featuring Cilla Black and her guests Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, the Bee Gees, Julio Iglesias and George Benson.

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  • 1979
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    The Plank

    The Plank

    7.364 1979 HD

    Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless...

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  • 1969
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    Carry on Christmas

    Carry on Christmas

    6.3 1969 HD

    Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or...

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  • 1973
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    The House in Nightmare Park

    The House in Nightmare Park

    6.6 1973 HD

    Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s....

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  • 1968
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    The Frankie Howerd Show

    The Frankie Howerd Show

    1 1968 HD

    A one off Frankie Howerd Special

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  • 1990
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    Frankie Howerd on Campus

    Frankie Howerd on Campus

    1 1990 HD

    Recording of Frankie Howerd's one man show given at Oxford University in which he returned to many of his most famous routines.

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  • 1958
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    Further Up the Creek

    Further Up the Creek

    6 1958 HD

    The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...

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  • 1975
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    Further Up Pompeii

    Further Up Pompeii

    7.8 1975 HD

    A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by...

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  • 1963
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    The Cool Mikado

    The Cool Mikado

    1 1963 HD

    In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a...

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  • 1990
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    Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story

    Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story

    1 1990 HD

    Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.

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  • 1982
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    Desert Island Discs

    Desert Island Discs

    1 1982 HD

    Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor...

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  • 1956
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    A Touch of the Sun

    A Touch of the Sun

    5.6 1956 HD

    A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

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  • 2004
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    Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd

    Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd

    1 2004 HD

    A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.

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  • 1970
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    Cucumber Castle

    Cucumber Castle

    4.5 1970 HD

    On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the Kingdom of Cucumbers. Before the king even dies,...

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  • 1996
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    Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost

    Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost

    1 1996 HD

    Recording of a 1991 Frankie Howerd stage show, previously released on VHS.

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  • 2013
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    Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes

    Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes

    1 2013 HD

    Using items from his preserved house in Somerset, Channel Four provides a look into Frankie Howerd's career trajectory and his life behind-the-scenes.

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  • 2024
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    Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments

    Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments

    1 2024 HD

    The celebrated British comedian Frankie Howerd’s six-decade-long career in showbusiness is the subject of this documentary narrated by his...

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  • 1955
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    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers

    7.276 1955 HD

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

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  • 1956
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    Jumping for Joy

    Jumping for Joy

    6.5 1956 HD

    At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back...

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  • 1991
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    Further Up Pompeii!

    Further Up Pompeii!

    6 1991 HD

    This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot Rothwell & Sid Colin. In my opinion a brilliant come-back...

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  • 1961
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    Watch It, Sailor!

    Watch It, Sailor!

    6.5 1961 HD

    Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering...

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  • 1962
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    The Fast Lady

    The Fast Lady

    5.6 1962 HD

    A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.

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  • 1955
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    An Alligator Named Daisy

    An Alligator Named Daisy

    6.2 1955 HD

    Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and...

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  • 1963
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    The Mouse on the Moon

    The Mouse on the Moon

    5.9 1963 HD

    Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new...

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  • 1987
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    Superfrank!

    Superfrank!

    1 1987 HD

    Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, England.

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  • 1970
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    Up Pompeii!

    Up Pompeii!

    7.6 1970 HD

    Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot...

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  • 1990
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    The Word

    The Word

    4.7 1990 HD

    The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.

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  • 1973
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    Whoops Baghdad

    Whoops Baghdad

    6 1973 HD

    Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme first broadcast from 25 January to 1 March 1973. It stars Frankie Howerd, and was similar to his...

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  • 1993
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    Then Churchill Said to Me

    Then Churchill Said to Me

    5.5 1993 HD

    Sitcom set in the government's secret underground headquarters during the Second World War.

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  • 1973
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    An Evening With Francis Howerd

    An Evening With Francis Howerd

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1981
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    Summertime Special

    Summertime Special

    1 1981 HD

    A BBC light entertainment holiday series, following on from the success of their Seaside Special shows, featuring comedy, music and variety guest...

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  • 1968
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    Cilla

    Cilla

    10 1968 HD

    A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

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  • 1964
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    The Frankie Howerd Show (1964)

    The Frankie Howerd Show (1964)

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1979
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    Just So Stories

    Just So Stories

    1 1979 HD

    A short series of animated shows for kids depicting the "Just So" stories by Rudyard Kipling.

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  • 1959
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    The Bruce Forsyth Show

    The Bruce Forsyth Show

    1 1959 HD

    Beginning in 1959 as Bruce's Show, mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time honoured tradition, this series focused on laughter, glamour and big...

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  • 1975
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    A Touch of the Casanovas

    A Touch of the Casanovas

    1 1975 HD

    A pilot for a Frankie Howerd sitcom that was eventually never made. A Touch of the Casanovas follows the same formula as Howerd's other sitcoms.

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  • 1987
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    Going Live!

    Going Live!

    6 1987 HD

    Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah...

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