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The Plank is a 1967 British slapstick comedy film directed and written by Eric Sykes, and starring Sykes, Tommy Cooper and Jimmy Edwards, and featuring many of the top British comedians and comic actors of the time. [1] It was produced by Jon Penington for Associated London Films. It follows the misadventures of two builders who require a ...
The Plank is a 30-minute, British slapstick comedy film for television from 1979, which was written and directed by Eric Sykes.This version, which is a remake of the 1967 film The Plank, also written and directed by Sykes, was produced by Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network.
For Thames TV that year, he also appeared in and wrote The Eric Sykes 1990 Show with Tommy Cooper, Dandy Nichols and John Williams (guitarist) and It's Your Move, a wordless slapstick comedy depicting the travails of a couple (Richard Briers and Sylvia Syms) moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes.
Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Gerald Sim: Drama: Evans won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin. The White Bus: Lindsay Anderson: Arthur Lowe, Patricia Healey: Drama: Short film The Winter's Tale: Frank Dunlop: Laurence Harvey, Jane Asher: Comedy [3] You Only Live Twice: Lewis Gilbert: Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence: Spy/action
Thomas Frederick Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a Welsh [1] [2] prop comedian and magician.As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m), [3] and he habitually wore a red fez when performing.
Finally, in 1979 Kirkland was named producer/director of The Benny Hill Show, remaining in those positions for the remainder of its run at Thames. During this period, he also worked with top comics including Tommy Cooper , Ken Dodd , Jim Davidson and Eric Sykes , whose 1979 remake of The Plank (directed by Sykes and produced by Kirkland) won at ...
Alex Moffat joined "SNL" in 2016 and became famous for his impressions of Eric Trump and Anderson Cooper, and his Weekend Update character "Guy Who Just Bought a Boat." Moffat, 42, has also voiced ...
It's Your Move is the title of two short films written and directed by Eric Sykes (in 1969 and 1982 respectively). The story of both films involves a married couple moving into a new home and enduring the ineptitude of removal men. As with most other films directed by Sykes, the action unfolds in a style echoing the silent, slapstick comedy era.