Bruce Lacey
Birthday: 1927-03-31
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Biography: Bruce Lacey was a British artist, performer and eccentric. After completing his national service in the Navy he became established on the avant-garde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. He has been closely associated with The Alberts performance group and The Goon Show. He made the props and had an acting part in Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.
Movies
The Alberts’ Channel Too
The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wak...
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes ...
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra ...
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Just Like a Woman
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Sci...
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The Preservation Man
The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's coll...
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The Bruce Lacey Experience
A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists....
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Head in Shadow
A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of...
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Agib and Agab
Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based ...
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Everybody's Nobody
Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized...
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Uncle's Tea Party
A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adu...
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One Man Band
An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘...
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Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander St...
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The Lacey Rituals
Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in th...
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Double Exposure
'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (H...
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The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two ...
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Breaking Away to Come Together
Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates th...
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Stella Chase
A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline a...
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The Flying Alberts
The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two ...
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Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value
Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV ...
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The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist unde...
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It's Trad, Dad!
The hero and heroine want to popularize trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased a...
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Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ...
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The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits
A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey....
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Smashing Time
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to sco...
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