Bill Fraser

Bill Fraser

Birthday: 1908-06-05

Place of Birth: Perth, Scotland, UK

Biography: William Simpson Fraser was a Scottish actor known for his roles in television and film from 1938 to 1987, particularly for his character Snudge in the sitcoms "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge". He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1986 for his role in the play "When We Are Married".

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Masquerade
Masquerade

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince....

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Alias John Preston
Alias John Preston

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impressi...

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Up the Chastity Belt
Up the Chastity Belt

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur...

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Up Pompeii
Up Pompeii

A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious sc...

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The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa

A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Varga...

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The Captain's Paradise
The Captain's Paradise

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English...

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Up the Front
Up the Front

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er cowa...

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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an...

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Moments
Moments

A depressed middle-aged man, revisiting the seaside resort he often vacationed at as a child, encoun...

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Puccini
Puccini

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his ...

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Love Thy Neighbour
Love Thy Neighbour

Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their w...

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Orders Are Orders
Orders Are Orders

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a l...

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That's Your Funeral
That's Your Funeral

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other....

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The Corn Is Green
The Corn Is Green

A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Wels...

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Time Bomb
Time Bomb

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bo...

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Pickwick
Pickwick

Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the 1963 stage musical...

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Joey Boy
Joey Boy

While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it ...

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All the Way Up
All the Way Up

Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can ga...

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Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sel...

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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Rhubarb Rhubarb

During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a consta...

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Diamonds for Breakfast
Diamonds for Breakfast

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were over...

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The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless an...

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Comedians
Comedians

Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring wor...

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All Good Men
All Good Men

On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls ...

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The Best House in London
The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio...

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Lady in the Fog
Lady in the Fog

In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortuna...

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Funeral Games
Funeral Games

Pringle, leader of the Brotherhood, recieves an anonymous letter accusing his wife of adultery. He e...

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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...

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Charley Moon
Charley Moon

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a uni...

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The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as th...

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Second Fiddle
Second Fiddle

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in ...

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The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets s...

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Doctor in Love
Doctor in Love

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...

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I've Gotta Horse
I've Gotta Horse

A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great lov...

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Dead Cert
Dead Cert

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill ...

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Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who: Meglos

On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an...

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The Common Touch
The Common Touch

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the C...

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East of Piccadilly
East of Piccadilly

A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the inte...

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The Man Who Liked Funerals
The Man Who Liked Funerals

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing ...

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K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, onl...

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Christmas Present
Christmas Present

A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should ...

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Meet Me Tonight
Meet Me Tonight

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel...

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A Home of Your Own
A Home of Your Own

A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a...

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Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent...

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Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping....

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A Clean Sweep
A Clean Sweep

George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never ...

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Duel in the Jungle
Duel in the Jungle

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diam...

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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a me...

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What a Crazy World
What a Crazy World

Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn and a dr...

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Forbidden
Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu...

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Davy
Davy

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the s...

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Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Meet Mr. Lucifer

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....

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The Amorous Milkman
The Amorous Milkman

Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, incl...

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Just My Luck
Just My Luck

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre...

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Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1
Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comed...

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The Fast Lady
The Fast Lady

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

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