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Frankie Howerd

Actor

Frankie Howerd

Born March 6, 1917 in York, Yorkshire, England, UKDied April 19, 199226 films

Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.

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The Ladykillers posterFirst watchThe Ladykillers19557.3as The Barrow BoyFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Carry On Doctor poster6.5Carry On Doctor1967Carry On Up the Jungle poster5.9Carry On Up the Jungle1970Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band poster4.4Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band1978

Filmography

26 films as actor
  1. 1991Further Up Pompeii!
  2. 1990The Craig Ferguson StoryThe God of Comedy
  3. 1982Trial by JuryThe Learned Judge
  4. 1982H.M.S. PinaforeSir Joseph Porter
  5. 1979The PlankPhotographer
  6. 1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandMean Mr. Mustard
  7. 1975Further Up PompeiiLurcio
  8. 1973The House in Nightmare ParkFoster Twelvetrees
  9. 1972Up the FrontPrivate Lurk
  10. 1972Up the Chastity BeltLurkalot / Richard the Lionheart
  11. 1971Up PompeiiLurcio
  12. 1970Cucumber CastleDying King
  13. 1970Carry On Up the JungleProfessor Inigo Tinkle
  14. 1969Carry On ChristmasRobert Browning / Fairy Godmother
  15. 1967Carry On DoctorMr. Francis Bigger
  16. 1966The Canterville GhostConstable
  17. 1966The Great St Trinian's Train RobberyAlphonse of Monte Carlo / Alfred Askett
  18. 1963The Cool MikadoKo-Ko Flintridge
  19. 1962The Fast LadyRoad Workman in Hole
  20. 1961Watch It, Sailor!Church Organist
  21. 1958Further Up the CreekBos'n
  22. 1956A Touch of the SunWilliam Darling
  23. 1956Jumping for JoyWillie Joy
  24. 1955An Alligator Named DaisyM.C. at Alligator Rally (uncredited)
  25. 1955The LadykillersThe Barrow Boy
  26. 1953The Runaway BusPercy Lamb