Date of birth: 1927-06-13
Place of birth: Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

Brian Wilde was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine.

1966-03-06
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand

1957-11-09
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover

1979-08-12
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Be

1963-05-17
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a

1967-05-15
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not f

1958-12-04
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c

1964-04-23
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pr

1970-05-01
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the

1963-02-01
An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge

1964-12-20
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Fina

1958-10-01
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate t

1983-12-27
Three old chums agree to take the ailing Sam on one last trip to see his flousy girl-friend, Lily Bl

1973-08-14
Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the ch

2022-12-16
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This doc

1976-12-24
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up

1975-12-24
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.

1966-04-03
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge

1967-06-13
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers
1978-01-02
Sponsored as part of the Electricity Council's 'Understanding Electricity' campaign, Play Safe is a

1975-07-17
Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie

1965-08-03
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affecti

1963-10-08
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young u

1971-01-28
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all

1967-12-02
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma

1953-03-17
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th

1962-09-06
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His

1971-02-25
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who

1954-05-04
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother an

1981-03-08
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable

1963-12-01
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at

1973-07-25
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with

1957-04-02
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank

1956-11-27
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used

1976-03-04
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led

1955-11-02
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

1953-08-25
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without

1963-11-29
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to

1956-09-10
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her se

1960-04-01
A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.

1976-04-30
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations wi
1971-12-03
A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidity that lie

1984-11-25
In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Pri

1982-12-27
Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Foo
1978-12-26
Featuring: Small Tune on a Penny Wassail, And a Dewhurst up a Fir Tree, Whoops and All Mod Conned.
1988-02-01
A compilation of episodes from The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Alias the Jester.

1981-01-01
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventure