Frankie Howerd
Date of birth: 1917-03-06
Place of birth: York, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Francis Alick Howard
Biography
Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.
Movie Credits
Carry On Doctor
1967-12-02
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma
Up the Chastity Belt
1972-01-14
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur
Up Pompeii
1971-03-11
A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious sc
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
1966-03-11
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978-07-21
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-t
Carry On Up the Jungle
1970-03-20
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expediti
Up the Front
1972-07-14
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er cowa
H.M.S. Pinafore
1982-06-01
Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relations
Trial by Jury
1982-06-01
Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the a
That's Carry On!
1977-11-10
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will
The Runaway Bus
1953-02-16
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1983-12-24
Special featuring Cilla Black and her guests Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, the Bee Gees, Julio Ig
The Plank
1979-12-17
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site.
Carry On Christmas
1969-12-24
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Chri
The House in Nightmare Park
1973-03-23
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of
The Frankie Howerd Show
1968-09-25
A one off Frankie Howerd Special
Frankie Howerd on Campus
1990-11-24
Recording of Frankie Howerd's one man show given at Oxford University in which he returned to many o
Further Up the Creek
1958-10-28
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey
Further Up Pompeii
1975-03-31
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusi
The Cool Mikado
1963-01-07
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, t
Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
1990-06-01
Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including hi
Desert Island Discs
1982-02-23
Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, includ
A Touch of the Sun
1956-10-01
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of w
Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
2004-04-04
A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.
Cucumber Castle
1970-12-26
On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the
Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost
1991-08-26
Recording of a 1991 Frankie Howerd stage show, previously released on VHS.
Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes
2013-01-01
Using items from his preserved house in Somerset, Channel Four provides a look into Frankie Howerd's
Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments
2024-06-23
The celebrated British comedian Frankie Howerd’s six-decade-long career in showbusiness is the subje
The Ladykillers
1955-12-08
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow
Jumping for Joy
1956-01-01
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's no
Further Up Pompeii!
1991-01-01
This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot Rothwell &
Watch It, Sailor!
1961-08-14
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reaso
The Fast Lady
1962-12-14
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955-12-13
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger
Superfrank!
1987-01-12
Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston
The Canterville Ghost
1966-11-02
An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle.
What's a Carry On?
1998-12-29
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a
Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
2001-06-12
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contrib
The Mouse on the Moon
1963-05-07
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the ca