John Bluthal

Born: 1929-08-12

John Bluthal (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1928 – 15 November 2018) was a comic actor best known for the role of Frank Pickle in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley and for his work with Spike Milligan in the Q series. He also appeared in several films including the Carry On movies, The Pink Panther movies, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Fifth Element and Hail, Caesar! He was born in Poland in 1929 and emigrated with his family to Australia when he was a child. In the early 60s, Bluthal moved to the UK to follow his acting career and returned to Australia in later years. He passed away on 15th November, 2018 at the age of 89.


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as Professor Pacoli
Released: 1997-05-02

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of...

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as Goblin (voice)
Released: 1986-06-27

When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King...

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as Karl Harris
Released: 1998-02-27

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish...

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Jungle

as Uncle Nissim
Released: 2017-06-27

In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle...

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Casino Royale

as Casino Doorman & MI5. Man
Released: 1967-04-13

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James...

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The Three Musketeers

as Various Roles (voice)
Released: 1973-12-11

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and...

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Superman III

as Pisa Vendor
Released: 1983-06-17

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant...

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The Four Musketeers

as English Officer/Innkeeper and other roles (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1974-10-31

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de...

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The Return of the Pink Panther

as Blind Beggar
Released: 1975-05-21

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to...

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Hail, Caesar!

as Prof. Marcuse
Released: 2016-02-05

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their...

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A Hard Day's Night

as Car Thief (uncredited)
Released: 1964-07-07

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying...

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Revenge of the Pink Panther

as Guard at Cemetery
Released: 1978-01-08

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

as Roman Chief Guard
Released: 1966-10-16

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

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Help!

as Bhuta
Released: 1965-07-29

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts...

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The Knack... and How to Get It

as Angry Father
Released: 1965-05-01

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to...

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The Mouse on the Moon

as Von Neidell
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 Follow That Camel

as Corporal Clotski
Released: 1967-08-10

Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the...

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Carry On Spying

as Head Waiter/Voice of Dr Crow
Released: 1964-06-01

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond...

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That's Carry On!

as Royal Taylor
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 Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2021-03-06

Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look...

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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Frank Pickle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2016-09-12

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context...

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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

as Jerry
Released: 1973-12-01

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of...

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Fantasm

as Notafreud (uncredited)
Released: 1976-07-16

Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short...

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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

as Dr. Pinto
Released: 1968-07-12

George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his...

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Love's Brother

as Pepe
Released: 2004-04-01

Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the...

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The Return of Captain Invincible

as Deli Owner
Released: 1983-01-28

In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But...

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Alison's Birthday

as Dean Findlay
Released: 1981-05-01

During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from...

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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

as Judge
Released: 1968-09-11

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his...

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The Great McGonagall

as various
Released: 1975-01-23

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an...

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Doctor in Distress

as Railway Porter (uncredited)
Released: 1963-07-30

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir...

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A Talent for Loving

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican...

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RPM

as Grinkstein
Released: 1998-06-23

A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

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A Ghost of a Chance

as Mayor's Assistant
Released: 1967-01-01

Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are...

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Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

as Michael Dennehy
Released: 1996-10-19

Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an...

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Father Came Too!

as Robert the Bruce
Released: 1964-02-11

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling...

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Stan and George's New Life

as Stan Senior
Released: 1992-08-28

Stan is a mild-mannered, gentle, middle-aged man who still lives with his overbearing parents....

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Design for Living

as Ernest Friedman
Released: 1979-05-06

Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and...

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Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns

as Stephanos
Released: 2000-01-27

Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who...

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The Irishman

as uncredited
Released: 1978-02-28

Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is...

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Meriel the Ghost Girl

as Sam Nicholls
Released: 1976-09-28

Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally...

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Doctor in Trouble

as Cabbie
Released: 1970-06-16

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a...

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Leapin' Leprechauns

as Michael Dennehy
Released: 1995-07-26

A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

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A Pinch of Snuff

as Maurice Arany
Released: 1994-04-09

Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the...

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This Is My Street

as Joe
Released: 1964-01-15

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

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Squaring the Circle

as Babiuch
Released: 1984-05-23

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist...

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Touch and Go

as Anatole
Released: 1980-06-12

Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school...

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Spaghetti Two-Step

as Sidney
Released: 1977-02-27

A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of...

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Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

as Mr. Mockler
Released: 1975-01-15

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over...

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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

as Manny Cohen
Released: 1973-01-03

Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.

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Franklin River Journey

as Narrator
Released: 1980-01-01

Follows amateur botanist Antonius Moscal's raft journey down the Franklin River (Tasmania,...

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The Over-Amorous Artist

as Pakistani Salesman
Released: 1974-05-23

Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work...

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The Joke

as Dr Einstein
Released: 1976-05-26

Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his...

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Renoir, My Father

as Gleyne
Released: 1978-12-12

A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film...

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The Cafeteria

as Lieberman
Released: 1974-08-13

An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and...

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Minder

as Solly Salmon
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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The Avengers

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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Inspector Morse

as Victor Ignotas
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Birds of a Feather

as Pedro
First aired: 1989-10-16

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on...

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The Saint

as Ziggy Zaglan
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Saint

as Guido Naccaro
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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Rumpole of the Bailey

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-12-17

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...

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Blue Heelers

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-09-10

Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue...

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Bergerac

as Edward Emanuelson
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Jonathan Creek

as Jack Holiday
First aired: 1997-05-09

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural...

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The Goodies

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-11-08

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and...

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One Foot In the Grave

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-01-04

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of...

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Taggart

as uncredited
First aired: 1983-09-06

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of...

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Man in a Suitcase

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Lovejoy

as Popov
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

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The Vicar of Dibley

as Frank Pickle
First aired: 1994-11-10

Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite...

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Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Krassin
First aired: 1983-09-05

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...

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Hancock's Half Hour

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-07-06

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and...

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Super Gran

as Inside Legg The Tailor
First aired: 1985-01-20

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...

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The Larkins

as Martinez
First aired: 1958-09-19

'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and...

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Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-03-13

BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...

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Playhouse

as Sam Nicholls
First aired: 1974-03-13

BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...

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Sykes

as Henry
First aired: 1972-09-14

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to...

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Bluey

as Newsman
First aired: 1976-08-02

At Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the...

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Fireball XL5

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-28

Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of...

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Spirited

as Rocco
First aired: 2010-08-25

Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. Uptight...

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Virtual Murder

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-07-24

John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a...

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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-02-18

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British television sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as...

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Q...

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-03-24

Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982...

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Citizen James

as Charlie
First aired: 1960-11-24

Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November...

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