The Curse of Steptoe

5.8
20081h 7m

In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.

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Jason Isaacs

Harry H Corbett

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Phil Davis

Wilfrid Brambell

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Roger Allam

Tom Sloan

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Clare Higgins

Joan Littlewood

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Burn Gorman

Ray Galton

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Rory Kinnear

Alan Simpson

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Sophie Hunter

Maureen Corbett

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Zoë Tapper

Sheila Steafel

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