Frankie Howerd
Birthday: 1917-03-06
Place of Birth: York, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.
Movies
Carry On Doctor
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma...
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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
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 Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden...
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-t...
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Carry On Up the Jungle
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expediti...
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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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H.M.S. Pinafore
Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relations...
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Trial by Jury
Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the a...
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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The Runaway Bus
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a ...
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Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
Special featuring Cilla Black and her guests Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, the Bee Gees, Julio Ig...
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The Plank
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site....
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Carry On Christmas
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Chri...
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The House in Nightmare Park
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of ...
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Frankie Howerd on Campus
Recording of Frankie Howerd's one man show given at Oxford University in which he returned to many o...
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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Further Up Pompeii
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusi...
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The Cool Mikado
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, t...
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Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including hi...
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Desert Island Discs
Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, includ...
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A Touch of the Sun
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of w...
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Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd....
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Cucumber Castle
On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the ...
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Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost
Recording of a 1991 Frankie Howerd stage show, previously released on VHS....
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Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes
Using items from his preserved house in Somerset, Channel Four provides a look into Frankie Howerd's...
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Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments
The celebrated British comedian Frankie Howerd’s six-decade-long career in showbusiness is the subje...
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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Jumping for Joy
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's no...
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Further Up Pompeii!
This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot Rothwell &...
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Watch It, Sailor!
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reaso...
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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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An Alligator Named Daisy
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger...
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The Mouse on the Moon
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the ca...
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Superfrank!
Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston...
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The Canterville Ghost
An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle....
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contrib...
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