Richard Wattis
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For almost 40 years, from the end of the 1930s to the mid-'70s, Richard Wattis enjoyed a reputation as one of England's more reliable character actors, and -- in British films, at least -- developed something akin to star power in non-starring roles.... more
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Cast: Richard Wattis Jane Birkin George Harrison Jack MacGowran Gérard Brach
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 82min
Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) is a professor who specializes in the behavior and collecting of butterflies. One day, he discovers he can watch his beautiful neighbor Penny (Jane Birkin) through a crack in the wall of his apartment. He is soon...
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Cast: Eric Barker Frankie Howerd Malcolm Arnold Richard Wattis Frank Launder
Tags: Slapstick Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 90min
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul...
Cast: Richard Wattis Carl Jaffe Suzy Kendall Martin Miller Christopher Miles
Tags: Musical
Length: 87min
In this musical comedy, a dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune. There he begins falling for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time. In between romances, the singer finds himself involved with a gang...
Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
Cast: Richard Wattis Eric Barker Jack Davies Joe Don Baker Shirley Eaton
Tags: Military Comedy Comedy
Length: 86min
Essentially a one-joke comedy hanging on the thinnest of plots, this routine series of slapstick situations is directed by Don Chaffey and concerns the ineptitude of an Air Force officer, Captain Kingsley (Jimmy Edwards). The likeable Captain has a...
Cast: Cecil Parker Richard Wattis David Tomlinson John Welsh Sam Kydd
Length: 80min
This romp through the comedic world of spy-chase stories starts with Dick Lanchester (David Tomlinson), a less-than-brilliant British diplomat, taking an atomic scientist to a NATO meeting. A simple escort service turns into disaster when the...
Your Money or Your Wife (1960)
Cast: Peggy Cummins Ian Fleming Richard Wattis Barbara Steele Anthony Simmons
Tags: Comedy
Length: 91min
Donald Sinden and Peggy Cummins co-star as Pelham and Gay Butterworth in this routine comedy about a married couple whose hopes of acquiring an instantaneous fortune are suddenly dashed. When Gay finds out she is going to get a huge inheritance, the...
Cast: Richard Wattis Norman Wisdom Hattie Jacques Marianne Stone Ron Moody
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Musical
Length: 102min
Combining music, comedy, and pathos, this tale of a gullible singer and the people around him is simple but effective. Norman Wisdom stars as Norman Truscott, someone with a good singing voice who wants to perform but lacks the confidence to get up on...
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Cast: Laurence Olivier Marilyn Monroe Sybil Thorndike Richard Wattis Muir Mathieson
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 127min
The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Based on the Terence Rattigan play +The Sleeping Prince, the film casts Olivier as...
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)
Cast: Peter Cushing Forrest Tucker Val Guest Richard Wattis Michael Carreras
Tags: Horror Creature Film
Length: 83min
This is a so-so early Hammer horror film from Nigel Kneale, who also wrote The Quatermass Experiment. Forrest Tucker and botanist Peter Cushing lead an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains (actually the Pyrenees, but who's complaining?) in search of...
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Cast: Alastair Sim Margaret Rutherford Richard Wattis Frank Launder Joyce Grenfell
Length: 81min
A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London during World War II, Axis bombing forces the evacuation of a private all-girls school, St. Swithins. Thanks to a bureaucratic...
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