"The Punch and Judy Man The Punch and Judy Man is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers from a script by Philip Oakes and Tony Hancock for the Associated British Picture Corporation. It was Hancock's second and last starring role in a film, following ""The Rebel"" (1961). Based on Hancock's childhood memories of Bournemouth, the movie is set in 1963 in the sleepy fictional seaside town of Piltdown. Hancock plays Wally Pinner, the unhappily married Punch and Judy Man. Wally and the other beach entertainers, the Sandman (John Le Mesurier) who makes sand sculptures, and Neville the"
"1986, aged 80 (respiratory failure due to pulmonary embolism). His grave is located in the East London Cemetery. Leslie Dwyer Leslie Dwyer (28 August 1906 – 26 December 1986) was an English film and television character actor. He was born in Catford, the son of the popular music hall comedian Johnny Dwyer, and acted from the age of ten and appeared in his first film in 1921. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in BBC sitcom ""Hi-de-Hi!"". Film roles included ""In Which We Serve"" (1942), ""The Way Ahead"" (1944), the"
"as in his play ""The Comedy of Errors"". In early 19th century England, pantomime acquired its present form which includes slapstick comedy, while comedy routines also featured heavily in British music hall theatre which became popular in the 1850s. In ""Punch and Judy"" shows, which first appeared in England on 9 May 1662, a large slapstick is wielded by Punch against the other characters. British comedians who honed their skills at pantomime and music hall sketches include Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, George Formby and Dan Leno. The influential English music hall comedian and theatre impresario Fred Karno developed a form"
"Leslie Dwyer Leslie Dwyer (28 August 1906 – 26 December 1986) was an English film and television character actor. He was born in Catford, the son of the popular music hall comedian Johnny Dwyer, and acted from the age of ten and appeared in his first film in 1921. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in BBC sitcom ""Hi-de-Hi!"". Film roles included ""In Which We Serve"" (1942), ""The Way Ahead"" (1944), the 1952 remake of ""Hindle Wakes"", ""Act of Love"" (1953) in which he played a two hander scene opposite"
"The Comedy Man The Comedy Man is a 1964 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price and Billie Whitelaw. It depicts the life of a struggling actor in Swinging London. More later said that when he read the script he ""was profoundly struck by its relevance to my own life, and to the lives of so many actors I had known."" However it received limited distribution, being released on a double bill with ""Lord of the Flies"" (1963). Sacked from his job in provincial rep, actor Chick Byrd moves into digs in"
"Punch and the Judy Punch and the Judy is a comic ballet about marital discord choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Robert McBride. Arch Lauterer designed the set, Charlotte Trowbridge, the costumes. Edward Gordon Craig provided text for the narrated portions. The piece premiered on August 10, 1941, at the Bennington College Theatre in Bennington, Vermont. The roles include Punch, The Judy and their child; the winged horse Pegasus; Punch's mistress Pretty Polly; The Three Heroes: the Soldier, the Scout and the Highwayman; and three Fates. The original cast members were: The ballet's title is derived from the traditional,"
"Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film ""The Color of Money"", a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), ""Harper"" (1966) and ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), as well as ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"""
"Punch and Judy (film) Punch and Judy () was a 1906 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. A group of children are watching a puppet show in an outdoor booth (identified as Guignol in the French release and Punch and Judy in the English one). The puppets are engaging in knockabout farce, battling with sticks, when in their excitement they jump off the puppet stage and become miniature people fighting on the ground. The puppet master, rushing out of the booth, tries frantically to herd the puppets back to the stage, but they grow to human size and"
"The Nutty Professor (1996 film) The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American slapstick science-fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, which itself was a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". The film co-stars Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle and John Ales. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film won Best Makeup at the 69th Academy Awards. Murphy portrays a university professor, Sherman Klump, a kind-hearted man who is morbidly obese. A"
"Howard Mann Howard Mann (June 20, 1923 – September 18, 2008) was an American actor and comedian. Mann appeared on television, film and commercials during his 40-year-long career in the entertainment industry. Some of his most recent roles in the 2000s included ""Pushing Daisies"" and ""The Starter Wife"". Despite his dozens of film and television credits in his resume, Mann wrote that he had ""probably been turned down more times than a blanket,"" in a guest column in the ""Los Angeles Times"" in 2006. Mann was born Howard Mendelsohn in 1923 in New York City. He began his career in"
"The Patsy (1964 film) The Patsy is a 1964 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It was released on August 12, 1964 by Paramount Pictures. A famous comedian perishes in a plane crash. Members of his management team, worried that they will be jobless, decide to find someone to take his place as their ""meal ticket"". Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis) is a bellboy at their hotel and they decide he will become their next star. Stanley has no obvious talent, but his new managers use their power to open doors for him, including an appearance on ""The"
"The Nutty Professor The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American comic science fiction film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) and starring Jerry Lewis. The score was composed by Walter Scharf. The film is a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". ""The Nutty Professor"" has been described as perhaps the finest and most memorable film of Lewis's career.In 2004, ""The Nutty Professor"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". A remake was released in 1996, starring Eddie Murphy and Jada Pinkett-Smith"
"California. Murray Kinnell Murray Kinnell (24 July 1889, London, England – 11 August 1954) was an English-born American actor, recognized for playing smooth, gentlemanly, although rather shady characters. He appeared in 71 films in the USA between the pre-code era of 1930 and 1937. He was best known as the two-timing petty-larceny hood Putty Nose in ""The Public Enemy"" (1931). He also appeared in a number of the Charlie Chan series of films. He also had a brief tenure in stage work from 1911, prior to his cinema career. On 11 August 1954, Kinnell died at his home in Santa"
"eloquent."" Another critic described her comedic sense as ""almost Chaplinesque"" Punch and the Judy Punch and the Judy is a comic ballet about marital discord choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Robert McBride. Arch Lauterer designed the set, Charlotte Trowbridge, the costumes. Edward Gordon Craig provided text for the narrated portions. The piece premiered on August 10, 1941, at the Bennington College Theatre in Bennington, Vermont. The roles include Punch, The Judy and their child; the winged horse Pegasus; Punch's mistress Pretty Polly; The Three Heroes: the Soldier, the Scout and the Highwayman; and three Fates. The original cast"
"Charles Dierkop Charles Dierkop (born September 11, 1936) is an American character actor. He is most recognized for his supporting roles in the films, ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969), ""The Sting"" (1973), and the television series, ""Police Woman"" (1974-1978). Dierkop was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and attended Aquinas High School in La Crosse. He was raised by his aunt and uncle after his father left when Dierkop was an infant and his mother ""left home when he was still a tot"". Dierkop dropped out of high school after his junior year and enlisted in the U.S. Marines."
"James Dean, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Michael Forest, James Hong, Sally Kellerman, Shirley Knight, Bruce Lee, Penny Marshall, Jack Nicholson, Darrell M. Smith, Diane Varsi, Sharon Tate, Rita Moreno, Leonard Nimoy, Sally Forrest, Anthony Perkins, Rob Reiner, Robert Towne, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams. In 1962, Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s. He played Hoban in ""The Cincinnati Kid"" (1965) and Tom Chaney the principal villain in ""True Grit"" (1969) and was Sheriff Bledsoe in ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (also 1969) who warned Butch and Sundance that no good would come of"
"The Comedian (2016 film) The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Lewis Friedman, Richard LaGravenese, Art Linson, and Jeff Ross. The film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Patti LuPone and Harvey Keitel. The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 11, 2016, and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 9, 2016. The film opened to negative reviews from critics. Jackie (Robert De Niro) is a comic icon, attempting to reinvent himself despite his audience only"
"""The Bellboy"". Lewis' characters in both films are bellboys named Stanley. It was filmed from January 6 to February 28, 1964. ""The Patsy"" was re-released on a double bill with another Jerry Lewis film, ""The Nutty Professor"", in 1967. ""The Patsy"" was released on DVD on October 12, 2004. The Patsy (1964 film) The Patsy is a 1964 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It was released on August 12, 1964 by Paramount Pictures. A famous comedian perishes in a plane crash. Members of his management team, worried that they will be jobless, decide to find someone"
"a superior cast"" ; while Allmovie wrote, ""matching More's terrific starring performance are such British ""regulars"" as Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Cecil Parker, Norm Rossington, and Frank Finlay"" ; and the Sunday Mirror noted, ""Kenneth More in the greatest performance of his career. Brilliantly directed."" The Comedy Man The Comedy Man is a 1964 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price and Billie Whitelaw. It depicts the life of a struggling actor in Swinging London. More later said that when he read the script he ""was profoundly struck by its relevance to"
"had not read any of the screenplays. The result of the break was that Hancock chose to separately develop something previously discussed, and the writers were ultimately commissioned to write a ""Comedy Playhouse"" series for the BBC, one of which, ""The Offer"", emerged as the pilot for ""Steptoe and Son"". That ""something previously discussed"" became ""The Punch and Judy Man"", for which Hancock hired writer Philip Oakes, who moved in with the comedian to co-write the screenplay. In ""The Punch and Judy Man"" (1962), Hancock plays a struggling seaside entertainer who dreams of a better life; Sylvia Syms plays his"
"Punch and Judy Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically Mr. Punch and one other character who usually falls victim to Punch's slap stick. It is often associated with traditional British culture. The various episodes of Punch comedy—often provoking shocked laughter—are dominated by the clowning of Mr. Punch. The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a ""professor"" or ""punchman"", and assisted sometimes by a ""bottler"""
"Punch and Judy (opera) Punch and Judy is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Stephen Pruslin, based on the puppet figures of the same names. Birtwistle wrote the score from 1966 to 1967. The opera was first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, which had commissioned the work, on 8 June 1968, with David Atherton conducting the English Opera Group. The premiere cast included John Cameron as Mr Punch. The work caused great controversy with members of the audience, because of the violence of the plot and the nature of the music. Benjamin Britten was reported"
"Murray Kinnell Murray Kinnell (24 July 1889, London, England – 11 August 1954) was an English-born American actor, recognized for playing smooth, gentlemanly, although rather shady characters. He appeared in 71 films in the USA between the pre-code era of 1930 and 1937. He was best known as the two-timing petty-larceny hood Putty Nose in ""The Public Enemy"" (1931). He also appeared in a number of the Charlie Chan series of films. He also had a brief tenure in stage work from 1911, prior to his cinema career. On 11 August 1954, Kinnell died at his home in Santa Barbara,"
"most professors work solo, since the need for a bottler became less important when busking with the show gave way to paid engagements at private parties or public events. The Punch and Judy show has roots in the 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte. The figure of Punch is derived from the Neapolitan stock character of Pulcinella, which was anglicized to ""Punchinello"". He is a manifestation of the Lord of Misrule and Trickster figures of deep-rooted mythologies. Punch's wife was originally called ""Joan."" The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England on 9 May 1662, which"
"Neasden, London; his wife and son survived him. A week before his death, he had announced that he was leaving show business. His son Anthony is now a businessman based in the City of London. On ITV, Fabrizi was well known for his role in Granada Television's popular series ""The Army Game"", as Corporal ""Moosh"" Merryweather, while on BBC television, he was a regular member of the ensemble cast of the Tony Hancock sitcom ""Hancock's Half Hour"". His most notable film role was as Neville Shanks, the photographer, in Hancock's 1963 film, ""The Punch and Judy Man"". He also worked"
"The Running Man (1963 film) The Running Man is a 1963 British drama film directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey as a man who fakes his own death in a glider accident, then runs into trouble when an insurance investigator starts taking a close interest. It was adapted by screenwriter John Mortimer from the 1961 novel ""The Ballad of the Running Man"" by Shelley Smith. It was filmed in San Roque, Cádiz, Spain, Gibraltar and Ireland. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 1 August 1963. Lee Remick and Alan Bates co-starred with"
"Show"", Claude Wilbur on ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"", ""Dan Raven"", and ""The Brady Bunch"", as well as a 1960 movie that included a compilation of Three Stooges shorts (""Stop!, Look and Laugh""), and a part in the Jerry Lewis movie ""Which Way to the Front?"". Winchell appeared as himself in 1963 in the NBC game show ""Your First Impression"". He appeared in the late 1960s in a sketch on ""Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in"" as a French ventriloquist named ""Lucky Pierre"", who has the misfortune of having his elderly dummy die of a heart attack in the middle of his"
"Roy Scheider Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer. Scheider gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in several iconic films from the 1970s, playing NYPD Detective Buddy ""Cloudy"" Russo in ""The French Connection"" (1971); NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci in ""The Seven Ups"" (1973); Police Chief Martin Brody in ""Jaws"" (1975) and ""Jaws 2"" (1978); Doc in ""Marathon Man"" (1976); choreographer and film director Joe Gideon (whose character was based on Bob Fosse) in ""All That Jazz"" (which was written and directed by Fosse) (1979); and Dr. Heywood R."
"Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. The duo's signature tune is known variously as ""The Cuckoo Song"", ""Ku-Ku"", or ""The Dance of the Cuckoos"". It was played over the opening credits of their films and has become as emblematic of the duo as their"
"Captain Spaulding""—done entirely in French. Groucho Marx Julius Henry ""Groucho"" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is widely considered one of America's greatest comedians. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show ""You Bet Your Life"". His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated"
"Mancini, performed by his orchestra. In 2001, the soundtrack album was awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. In 2005, the score was listed at #20 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. The distinctive tenor saxophone of Plas Johnson is heard on the main title theme music. Bibliography The Pink Panther (1963 film) The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale. The film introduced the cartoon character of the same name, in an opening credits sequence"
"1969 film ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"", starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. (Universal contract player Ben Murphy was offered to the producers because he was considered a Paul Newman lookalike.) A number of similarities are seen between the film and the TV series: One of the lead characters in the film was called Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy). In real life, Harvey Logan, also known by the nickname of Kid Curry, was an associate of the real Butch Cassidy, and unlike the TV version, was a cold-blooded killer. The TV series also featured a group of robbers"
"troop past each other, with cameos galore. British comedy British comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters. British comedy history is measured in centuries. Shakespeare incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play ""The Comedy of Errors"". The quarrelsome couple Punch and Judy made their first recorded appearance in Britain in 1662, when Samuel Pepys noted a “pretty” puppet play being performed in Covent Garden, London. The various episodes of Punch"