THE COMEDY MAN - Kenneth More, Billie Whitelaw (1964)

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The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves and their neighbours in a surprising new light.            

CAST: Ted Ray, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Leslie Phillips, Lionel Jeffries.  DIR: Gerald Thomas (1960)
 

THE COMEDY MAN:

A middle-aged actor on the skids desperately rounds up his contacts and becomes the star of a TV commercial.                

CAST: Kenneth More, Billie Whitelaw, Cecil Parker, Frank Finlay, Dennis Price, Alan Dobie, Jacqueline Hill.  DIR: Alvin Rakoff (1964)

"I was profoundly struck by it's relevance to my own life, and to the lives of so many actors I had known."  - Kenneth More