Alfie Bass
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alfred Bass was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfie Bass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: April 8, 1921
Place of Birth: Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
Known For
Mr. Scrooge
A Christmas Carol retelling
Danger UXB
Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.
Brief Encounter
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
Dick Turpin
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.
The Goodies
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
Till Death Us Do Part
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Arthur of the Britons
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.
Are You Being Served?
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich, but stingy, store owner.
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Filmography
as Morrie Levin
as Consumptive Italian
as Reg Preston
as Isaac Rag
as Sammy
as Fernet
as Kelly
as Gatekeeper
as Silas Wegg
as The Giant
as Sylv
as Mr. Goldberg
as Mr. Spencer (segment "Pride")
as Dickie Silver
as Town Planner
as Charlie
as Self (archive footage)
as Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
as Pie Merchant
as Gatekeeper
as Yachtsman
as Bert Reed
as Harry Clamacraft
as Fleming
as Joseph Bindle
as Doorman
as Max Fischer
as Flute
as Alf
as Bob Cratchit
as Self
as Fish Curer
as Montague 'Bootsie' Bisley
as Excused Boots Bisley
as The Small Man
as Jerry Cruncher
as Tinker, Truck Driver
as Private Montague 'Excused Boots' Bisley
as Orderly (uncredited)
as Rudge Harvey
as May
as Sawney
as Barney Brandygore
as Organist (Uncredited)
as Ticket Collector
as Sammy
as Blagg
as Fender
as Labourer
as Edgar
as Alf the Bird Man (uncredited)
as Sailor (uncredited)
as The Soldier
as Fred Frames
as Harry
as Cab Driver
as Ernie Gordon
as Carrell
as Ernie
as Frank Forbes
as Artie Jones
as Soldier
as Spider Wilkes
as Tipster
as Dallyn
as Albert Brewer (uncredited)
as Shorty
as Newsboy
as Lorcan
as Alf
as Stage Hand with Microphone (uncredited)
as Basher Walker
as Orderly
as Bert the Barge Mate
as Speedway track manager
as 1st Urchin
as Dicey Perkins
as Witness
as Redcoat
as Frank
as Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
as Corporal