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2. Doctor (film series) - Wikipedia

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   The first film, Doctor in the House, was initiated by Betty Box, who picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey. She saw its possibility as a film, but Box and Ralph Thomas had a job convincing Rank executives that people would go to a film about doctors, and that Bogarde, who up to then had played spivs and World War Two ...

3. Doctor (novel series) - Wikipedia

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   The seven Doctor films were developed from the books, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. [3] The early films featured Dirk Bogarde in the lead as Doctor Sparrow and Donald Sinden as Benskin. [4] Later films starred Leslie Phillips. [5] The first film came in 1954 and the last in 1970. [6]

4. Dirk Bogarde - Wikipedia

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   Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation , he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess".

5. Doctor in the House (film) - Wikipedia

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   Doctor in the House was the most popular film at the British box office in 1954. [20] Its success resulted in six sequels, three starring Bogarde, one with Michael Craig and Leslie Phillips, and the other two with Phillips, as well as a successful television series from London Weekend Television.

6. Richard Gordon (English author) - Wikipedia

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   Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.

7. Doctor at Large (film) - Wikipedia

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   Doctor at Large is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas starring Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice and Shirley Eaton. It is the third of the seven films in the Doctor series, and is based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Richard Gordon .

8. Doctor in Distress (film) - Wikipedia

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   It is the fifth of the seven films in the Doctor series. After a one-film absence, it was the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by Dirk Bogarde, and also the return (although in a different role) of Donald Houston. The film uses some of the characters in Richard Gordon's Doctor novels, but is not based on any of them.

9. Doctor in the House (novel) - Wikipedia

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   (The television series would use entirely different characters.) A film adaptation, Doctor in the House, was released in 1954, starring Dirk Bogarde; several of the subsequent books were also filmed. There were a number of TV series very loosely based on the books, and a 13-part radio series on the BBC in 1968 starring Richard Briers as Simon.