Paul Barber, (), is a British actor best known for playing Denzil Tulser in Only Fools and Horses.
Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
FilmsSeries- Only Fools and Horses, 18 episodes (1983-2003) — Denzil Tulser
- The Green Green Grass, episode "Keep on Running" (2005) — Denzil Tulser
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Nurse on Wheels is a 1963 film starring Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, and Esma Cannon. Despite being produced and directed by Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas, and having a few of the films' stars, this film was not part of the Carry On... Series.
When Nurse Joanna Jones (Mills) finally passes her driving test, she gets a job as District Nurse for a country town and moves into a cottage with her scatterbrained mother (Cannon). Unfortunately, her patients think she is too young, and won't stop complaining about how much they miss her predecessor, Nurse Merrick (Barbara Everest).
However, all isn't bad for Joanna, after she meets Henry Edwards (Lewis), a rich farmer. While Mrs. Jones wants Joanna to fall for Dr. Harold Golfrey (Ronald Howard), Joanna and Henry have better chemistry.
When Ann and Tim Taylor (Amanda Reiss and Jim Dale) need a place for Ann to give birth to her unborn child, they park their caravan in one of Henry's fields. Hilarity Ensues as a rift is driven between Joanna and Henry, Joanna wanting to let them stay, while Henry wants them off of his land.
Deborah Walcott (Sims) Abel Worthy (Purcell)
Tropes on Wheels:
- Alliterative Name:
- Joanna Jones.
- Tim Taylor.
- Digital Destruction: In 2007, Studio Canal made a digital transfer to air on TV and release on DVD. In doing so, nobody realised that two reels were switched around, causing the middle of the film to become a jumbled mess of plot points being resolved before they are set up!
- The Film of the Book: The film was based on John Burke's novel Nurse is a Neighbour.
- Tagline: "Injected with the infectious humour of Carry On Nurse!".
The Big Job is a 1965 film starring Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Lance Percival, and Jim Dale. Despite being produced and directed by Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas, and having a few of the films' stars, this film was not part of the Carry On... Series. The 1999 film Blue Streak is a remake of the film set in America starring Martin Lawrence.
After a failed robbery in 1950, where George Brain (James), and his gang of Frederick "Booky" Binns (Emery) and Timothy "Dipper" Day (Percival), end up having to hide the £50,000 they have stolen in a tree, the three are sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Once they are released, the tree is now in the backyard of the local police station, next to the back wall. To stake out the tree, George and his gang take rooms in the boarding house of Mildred Gamely (Sims), a widow who lives with her daughter Sally (Edina Ronay). To provide a respectable front, George is forced to marry his girlfriend, Myrtle Robbins (Syms), who is much more enthusiastic than George.
Hilarity Ensues as the gang repeatedly fail in their attempts to get to the tree as they try to keep their intentions hidden from Mrs. Gamely, Sally, and Harold (Dale), a policeman living in the same house.
Tropes in this Film:
- Market-Based Title: The film was released in New Zealand as Carry On Crooks.
- Pun-Based Title: The film's Working Title The Great Brain Robbery was a play on the Great Train Robbery, which occurred two years before the film was made.
- Shout-Out:
- Harold hopes the police station will be like Z Cars.
- Mrs. Gamely plans to rob a Scottish train, much like the real Great Train Robbery that occurred two years before the film was made.
- Tagline: "WANTED in connection with THE GREAT DRAIN ROBBERY otherwise known as-".
- Translation Matchmaking: In New Zealand, the film was released as Carry On Crooks. While it was produced and directed by Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas, and does share many actors with the Carry On... Series, it is not an official entry in the Carry On series.
Upstairs and Downstairs is a 1959 film starring Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, James Robertson Justice, and Sid James.
After Richard Barry (Craig) marries Kate (Heywood), the daughter of his boss - Mr. Mansfield (Justice) - Mr. Mansfield employs Richard to take over the entertaining for their firm. To achieve this, Richard hires some domestic help, including Ingrid (Demongeot), a pretty, blonde, Swedish woman. Ingrid is great at her job and well-liked, but Hilarity Ensues as Ingrid pursues Richard all for herself.
Police Constable Edwards (James)
Tropes in this Film:
- Same Language Dub: Joseph Tomelty was dubbed over by an unknown actor.
- Tagline: "M-M-M-M-Mylène's m-m-m-m-marvelous!".
Carry On Admiral is a 1957 film starring David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson, AE Matthews, and Guest Star Ronald Shiner. Despite the film's title, this film was not part of the Carry On... Series and in fact predated it by one year.
During a drunken reunion, a Government minister and a Royal Navy officer switch clothes before passing out. The next morning, their changed clothes cause them to be mistaken for each other. Hilarity Ensues as the two attempt to get back to their old lives.
Tom Baker (Tomlinson) Susan Lashwood (Cummins) Peter Fraser (Reece) Jane Godfrey (Gayson) Admiral Sir Maximillian Godfrey, K.C.B. (Matthews) Salty Simpson (Shiner)
Tropes in this Film:
- Alliterative Name: Salty Simpson.
- The Film of the Play: The film was based on Off the Record by Ian Hay.
- Market-Based Title: The film was released in America as The Ship Was Loaded.
- Special Guest: Ronald Shiner as Salty Simpson.
- Tagline: "And NOW it's the NAVY with a shipload of LAUGHTER!".
I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 film starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Dennis Price, and Guest Stars Richard Attenborough, and Margaret Rutherford.
When Stanley Windrush (Carmichael) wants to find a job as a business executive, his uncle, Bertram Tracepurcel (Price), and old army comrade, Sidney DeVere Cox (Attenborough), persuade him to take a blue-collar job at Missiles Ltd, Tracepurcel's factory. Shop steward Fred Kite (Sellers) is suspicious of Stanley at first, trying to have him sacked, but eventually takes Stanley under his wing and takes him in as a lodger, an offer sweetened once Stanley meets Fred's daughter, Cynthia (Liz Fraser).
Later on, personnel manager Major Hitchcock (Thomas) is assigned a time and motion study expert, Waters (John Le Mesurier), to measure the employee's efficiency. Stanley is tricked into showing how much faster he can do his job than the others with the help of a forklift, causing Fred to call a strike to protect the rates his union workers earn.
The union decides to punish Stanley by sending him to Coventry, leading his rich aunt, Dolly (Rutherford), to visit the Kite household and speak with Mrs. Kite (Irene Handl), while Stanley crosses the picket line and returns to work, causing Fred to kick him out. In retaliation, Cynthia and Mrs. Kite also go on strike, causing more and more strikes to spring up and bring Britain to a standstill as Hilarity Ensues.
Tropes in this Film:
- Artistic License – Law: A judge is shown with a gavel, despite the fact that judges in Britain don't use them.
- The Film of the Book: The film was based on Alan Hackney's novel Private Life.
- Tagline: "Everybody loves Jack...".
- Tuckerization: Miss Hackney was named for screenwriter Alan Hackney.
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business is a 1973 film starring Reg Varney, Diana Coupland, Lee Montague, and Jean Harvey, which was a feature-length remake of a 1968 episode of ITV Playhouse that also starred Varney.
The film follows Sherry Sheridan (Varney), a holiday camp comic with a dying career who is becoming less and less valued each day. His wife, Mary (Coupland), is having an affair with camp manager Charlie Green (Montague) who wants to run away with her. He plans to sell the camp to Emma Cooper (Harvey), an old flame, so that Sherry will be kept on full-time, and Mary will be able to leave him.
Tensions are high between Sherry and Mary, and boil over when their son, Alan (Michael Hadley), announces that he plans to marry Kim Thorn (Jane Seymour), but doesn't wish for Sherry to be involved, knowing of his father's history of acting as though he is a big shot in the entertainment world and embarrassing himself (often bragging how he supposedly ate with Elizabeth II at a royal garden party).
Varney had hoped the film would lead to further success on the big screen, but it sadly flopped and would be the final film he starred in, barring Holiday on the Buses, which was released later that same year.
The Best Set of Tropes in the Business:
- Repetitive Name: Sherry Sheridan.
- Shout-Out: When talking about Sherry, Ron mutters "If Hughie Green saw him, he'd throw up", referencing Opportunity Knocks.
- Tagline: "At his lovable entertaining best".
George and Mildred is a 1980 film spin-off of the series of the same name starring Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Kenneth Cope, David Barry, Sue Bond, and Nicholas Bond-Owen.
After George Roper (Murphy) gives his wife, Mildred (Joyce), a terrible surprise for their 27th wedding anniversary, Mildred forces him to take her to a luxury London hotel for the weekend, much to the delight of their snobby neighbour, Jeffrey Fourmile (Eshley), whose wife, Ann (Fearn), and son, Tristram (Bond-Owen), are much fonder of the Ropers than he is.
Also staying at the hotel are shady businessman Harry Pinto (Johns); his nephew, Elvis (Barry); and Pinto's lover, Marlene (Bond). Hilarity Ensues as Pinto mistakes George for a hitman and sets him up to eliminate a rival of his.
Harvey (Cope)
Tropes in this Film:
- Demoted to Extra: The Fourmiles - Jeffrey, Ann, and Tristram - are main characters in the series, but are absent from a majority of the film.
- The Foreign Subtitle: In Australia, the film was released as George and Mildred: The Movie.
- The Movie: This film was based on the series George & Mildred and was released after its fifth series. A sixth series was supposed to follow but never happened due to Yootha Joyce's tragically early death due to liver failure.
- Shout-Out: While reading the TV Times, George complains that he'll be missing Wonder Woman (1975).
- Tagline: "She's still trying to steer him towards romance- He still doesn't know what she's driving at".
- Take That!: Mildred complains about having to play Monopoly on her honeymoon.
Trouble in Store is a 1953 film starring Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Moira Lister, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, and Jerry Desmonde.
One Good Turn is a 1955 film starring Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, and Thora Hird.
Man of the Moment is a 1955 film starring Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, and Jerry Desmonde.
Up in the World is a 1956 film starring Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson, and Jerry Desmonde.
Just My Luck is a 1957 film starring Norman Wisdom and Margaret Rutherford.
The Square Peg is a 1959 film starring Norman Wisdom.
Follow a Star is a 1959 film starring Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques, and Richard Wattis.
The Bulldog Breed is a 1960 film starring Norman Wisdom.
On the Beat is a 1962 film starring Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge, Esma Cannon, and Eric Barker.
A Stitch in Time is a 1963 film starring Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeannette Sterke, and Jerry Desmonde.
The Early Bird is a 1965 film starring Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jerry Desmonde, Paddie O'Neil, and Bryan Pringle.
Press for Time is a 1966 film starring Norman Wisdom, Derek Bond, Angela Browne, Tracey Crisp, Allan Cuthbertson, and Noel Dyson.
What's Good for the Goose is a 1969 film starring Norman Wisdom, Terence Alexander, Sarah Atkinson, Sally Bazely, Derek Francis, David Lodge, Paul Whitsun-Jones, and Sally Geeson.
Make Mine Mink is a 1960 film starring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw, and Elspeth Duxbury.
Dame Beatrice Appleby (Seyler) is an elderly philanthropist living in a flat with three lodgers - ex-army Major Albert Rayne (Thomas), the formidable Nanette "Nan" Parry (Jacques), and the inept Elizabeth "Pinkie" Pinkerton (Duxbury). Dame Beatrice's housekeeper is Lily Thompson (Whitelaw), a pretty, young woman, with a criminal past, while living in the flat next door are Lionel and Dora Spanager (Sydney Tafler and Joan Heal).
One day, after witnessing Dora reject an expensive mink coat from Lionel (only gifting the coat to try and cover up an affair) who leaves it on their balcony, Lily steals it and gifts it to Dame Beatrice, of whom she is quite fond. However, when Dame Beatrice learns of the coat's origins, she is horrified and so she and her lodgers plan to have the coat sneakily returned to the Spanager's flat. They are nearly caught out but succeed in their mission, which manages to bring a bit of excitement into their humdrum, restricted lives. So, the four decide that if they can return a mink coat, they can surely steal some too, and all the profits can be donated to worthy causes of Dame Beatrice's choice.
Hilarity Ensues as the gang begins pinching mink coats from all across London while having to be wary of Police Constable Jim Benham (Jack Hedley), Lily's new boyfriend.
San Ferry Ann is a 1965 sound effect comedy.
Dry Rot is a 1956 film starring Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Peggy Mount, Lee Patterson, and Sid James.
Ladies Who Do is a 1963 film starring Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett, Miriam Karlin, Ron Moody, Avril Elgar, and Dandy Nichols.
The working-class Mrs. Cragg (Mount) works hard in two jobs - as an officer cleaner and as a charwoman for Colonel Whitforth (Morley). One day after cleaning the office, financier James Ryder (Corbett) leaves behind a cigar and a scrap of paper, both of which Mrs. Cragg takes for Colonel Whitforth, who discovers that the paper is a telegram that contains details about a takeover bid, which he uses to make £5,000 on the stock exchange, and he offers to split with it with Mrs. Cragg.
Mrs. Cragg doesn't think what has happened is right, and so she goes to tell Ryder what has happened, only to hear of his plans to demolish Pitt Street and build an office there. She is disgusted at this, as it would mean evicting her and all her friends, but Ryder won't budge. Determined to save Pitt Street, Mrs. Cragg recruits three of her fellow chars - Mrs. Higgins (Karlin), Emily Parish (Elgar), and Mrs. Merryweather (Nichols) - to gather more discarded paper that can be used to gather insider information. With Colonel Whitforth at the helm, they form Ladezudu Ltd.
Ryder, helped by his partner, Sydney Tait (Jon Pertwee), tries to get the people of Pitt Street to leave their homes, but Hilarity Ensues as the ladies who do work to undermine Ryder's plans, who himself struggles to fight back with the help of a local Police Inspector (Moody).
Nearly a Nasty Accident is a 1961 film starring Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Ronnie Stevens, Richard Wattis, Jon Pertwee, and Eric Barker.
Aircraftman Alexander Wood (Connor) is The Millstone to all and sundry. After his latest disaster accidentally firing a brand-new missile by sitting on the launch button, he is transferred to work under the blustery Group Captain F. Kingsley (Edwards), who is hoping for a promotion. Wood means well and is constantly trying to help out with little repairs wherever he can, but only manages to cause a disaster with anything he touches, much to the frustration of Captain Kingsley and his underlings, Flight Lieutenant Pocock (Stevens) and Warrant Officer Breech (Cyril Chamberlain).
After Wood manages to rack up £5,000,000 worth of damages, the Air Minister (Barker) and his second-in-command Wagstaffe (Wattis) order for Wood to be removed from service at once, being sent home via train. Naturally, disaster strikes when both Captain Kingsley and Wood fall off the train at separate times. Hilarity Ensues as the whole army and air force try in vain to track down a blissfully unaware Wood, who gradually makes his own way back with the help of the pretty Corporal Jean Briggs (Eaton) and the senile General Birkinshaw (Pertwee).
No Sex Please - We're British is a 1973 film starring Ronnie Corbett, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, and Michael Bates.
A Pair of Briefs is a 1962 film starring Michael Craig, Mary Peach, Brenda De Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Roland Culver, Liz Fraser, and Ron Moody.
The Night We Dropped a Clanger is a 1959 film starring Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, Leo Franklyn, Liz Fraser, Hattie Jacques, Vera Pearce, John Welsh, Irene Handl, and Guest Stars William Hartnell and Leslie Phillips.
The Night We Got the Bird is a 1961 film starring Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, and Guest Star Ronald Shiner.
Too Many Crooks is a 1959 film starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, and Joe Melia.
The Captain's Table is a 1959 film starring John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, and Nadia Gray.
His and Hers is a 1961 film starring Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
The Iron Maiden is a 1963 film starring Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell, Alan Hale Jr., Noel Purcell, and Cecil Parker.
Make Mine a Million is a 1959 film starring Arthur Askey.
A Weekend with Lulu is a 1961 film starring Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks, Shirley Eaton, Irene Handl, Russ Conway, and Guest Stars Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Sydney Tafler, Eugene Deckers, Graham Stark, and Tutte Lemkow.
The Cuckoo Patrol is a 1967 musical comedy starring Freddie and the Dreamers, Kenneth Connor, and Victor Maddern.
In the Doghouse is a 1962 film starring Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, and Dick Bentley.
She'll Have to Go is a 1962 film starring Anna Karina, Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks, Hattie Jacques, and Dennis Lotis.
Three for All is a 1975 film starring Adrienne Posta, Cheryl Hall, Lesley North, John Le Mesurier, Graham Bonnett, Robert Lindsay, Christopher Neil, Paul Nicholas, and Guest Stars Jonathan Adams, George Baker, Richard Beckinsale, Sheila Bernette, Diana Dors, Liz Fraser, Hattie Jacques, Roy Kinnear, David Kossoff, Ian Lavender, Arthur Mullard, Dandy Nichols, Anna Quayle, Simon Williams, Edward Woodward, Nicholas Young, and Showaddywaddy.
Not Now, Darling is a 1973 film starring Leslie Phillips, Julie Ege, Bill Fraser, Moira Lister, Derren Nesbitt, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ray Cooney, Jackie Pallo, and Trudi Van Doorn.
Not Now, Comrade is a 1976 film starring Leslie Phillips, Roy Kinnear, Windsor Davies, Don Estelle, Michele Dotrice, Ray Cooney, June Whitfield, Carol Hawkins, Lewis Fiander, and Ian Lavender.
What a Whopper is a 1961 film starring Adam Faith, Sid James, Carole Lesley, Terence Longdon, Clive Dunn, Freddie Frinton, and Marie France.
I've Gotta Horse is a 1965 musical comedy starring Billy Fury, Michael Medwin, Amanda Barrie, and Guest Stars The Bachelors, Bill Fraser, Jon Pertwee, Fred Emney, and Anselmo.
Operation Bullshine is a 1959 film starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley, Ronald Shiner, Naunton Wayne, and Dora Bryan.
Very Important Person is a 1961 film starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, and Guest Stars Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, and Godfrey Winn.
The Boys in Blue is a 1982 film starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle, Roy Kinnear, Eric Sykes, and Guest Stars Jack Douglas, Edward Judd, and Jon Pertwee.
The Amorous Prawn is a 1962 film starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty, and Liz Fraser.
Go for a Take is a 1972 film starring Reg Varney, Norman Rossington, and Guest Stars Sue Lloyd, Dennis Price, and Julie Ege.
