Jerry Desmonde
Birthday: 1908-07-20
Place of Birth: Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, England
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jerry Desmonde (20 July 1908 - 11 February 1967) was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom. Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Desmonde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...
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A King in New York
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidenta...
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Trouble in Store
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't...
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Up in the World
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted...
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Alf's Baby
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she t...
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The Switch
A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshal...
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Cardboard Cavalier
A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commiss...
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Man of the Moment
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befri...
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The Early Bird
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a ...
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A Stitch in Time
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after c...
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Follow a Star
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fadi...
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London Town
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a gl...
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Ramsbottom Rides Again
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ra...
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The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this probl...
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Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...
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Gonks Go Beat
Bizarre sixties fable resembling Romeo and Juliet, but instead of Montagues and Capulets, there are ...
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A Kind of Loving
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she ...
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The Perfect Woman
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on...
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The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his p...
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Just My Luck
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre...
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