Frankie Howerd

Born: 1917-03-06

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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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

as Mean Mr. Mustard
Released: 1978-07-24

A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the...

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The Ladykillers

as The Barrow Boy
Released: 1955-12-08

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian...

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Carry On Doctor

as Francis Bigger
Released: 1967-12-02

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind...

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The Mouse on the Moon

as Self
Released: 1963-05-07

Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in...

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Carry On Up the Jungle

as Professor Inigo Tinkle
Released: 1970-03-20

The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an...

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Carry on Christmas

as Robert Browning / Fairy Godmother
Released: 1969-12-24

Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share...

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The Plank

as Photographer
Released: 1979-12-17

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building...

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That's Carry On!

as Various Characters
Released: 1977-01-01

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth...

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The Fast Lady

as Road Workman in Hole
Released: 1962-12-14

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon...

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Up Pompeii

as Lurcio
Released: 1971-03-11

A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market...

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The House in Nightmare Park

as Foster Twelvetrees
Released: 1973-03-23

Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof...

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Further Up the Creek

as Bos'n
Released: 1958-10-28

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant...

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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

as Alphonse of Monte Carlo / Alfred Askett
Released: 1966-03-11

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds...

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Up the Front

as Lurk
Released: 1972-01-01

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er...

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The Runaway Bus

as Percy Lamb
Released: 1953-09-28

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put...

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Up the Chastity Belt

as Lurkalot/Richard the Lionheart
Released: 1972-01-14

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle....

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H.M.S. Pinafore

as Sir Joseph Porter
Released: 1982-06-01

The D'Oyly Carte production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Love blossoms between members...

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An Alligator Named Daisy

as M.C. at Alligator Rally (uncredited)
Released: 1955-12-13

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another...

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Further Up Pompeii

as Lurcio
Released: 1975-03-31

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano,...

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The Cool Mikado

as Ko-Ko Flintridge
Released: 1963-01-07

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This...

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Cucumber Castle

as Dying King
Released: 1970-12-26

On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and...

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Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story

as Self
Released: 1990-06-01

Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and...

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A Touch of the Sun

as William Darling
Released: 1956-10-01

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place...

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Jumping for Joy

as Willie Joy
Released: 1956-01-01

At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound,...

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Desert Island Discs

as Self
Released: 1982-02-23

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways,...

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Trial By Jury

as The Learned Judge
Released: 1982-06-01

In a breach of promise case, the Learned Judge and Jury are somewhat smitten by the pretty...

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Cilla Black's Christmas Eve

as Self
Released: 1983-12-24

Special featuring Cilla Black and her guests Frankie Howerd, Graham Fletcher, the Bee Gees,...

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The Frankie Howerd Show

as Self
Released: 1968-09-25

A one off Frankie Howerd Special

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Watch It, Sailor!

as Church Organist
Released: 1961-08-14

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal...

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Frankie Howerd’s 30 Funniest Moments

as Self - (Archive)
Released: 2024-06-23

The celebrated British comedian Frankie Howerd’s six-decade-long career in showbusiness is the...

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Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd

as Self (archival footage)
Released: 2004-04-04

A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.

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Further Up Pompeii!

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

This one-off was shown on ITV in 1991, and by different writers, then the original Talbot...

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Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes

as Self - (Archive)
Released: 2013-01-01

Using items from his preserved house in Somerset, Channel Four provides a look into Frankie...

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Frankie Howerd at His Tittermost

as Self
Released: 1996-12-17

Recording of a 1991 Frankie Howerd stage show, previously released on VHS.

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Superfrank!

as Self
Released: 1987-01-12

Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in...

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Going Live!

as Self
First aired: 1987-09-26

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It...

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Cilla

as Self
First aired: 1968-01-30

A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

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The Word

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-08-10

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.

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Summertime Special

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-07-25

A BBC light entertainment holiday series, following on from the success of their Seaside Special...

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Up Pompeii!

as Lurcio
First aired: 1970-03-30

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring...

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The Bruce Forsyth Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-03-29

Beginning in 1959 as Bruce's Show, mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time honoured...

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Whoops Baghdad

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-01-25

Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme first broadcast from 25 January to 1 March...

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Then Churchill Said to Me

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-03-01

Sitcom set in the government's secret underground headquarters during the Second World War.

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