Arthur Askey Movies

During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leslie Mitchell

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil McCaul

Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Ash

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights.

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Cast: Arthur Askey

Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Plomley

Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He...

Genre: Western

Cast: Arthur Askey

Musical review. The messenger carrying the master discs of a season drops them, so Flotsam and Jetsam are sent out to collect the stars concerned....

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Askey

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

A little travelogue feature presenting Torbay - new resort along the 20 mile stretch of South Devon coast.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sid James

Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: C.P. Lee

Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hubert Gregg

Compilation of classic British comedy moments

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Muir