Eric Barker
Acting
Biography
Eric Leslie Barker (12 February 1912 - 1 June 1990) was an English comedy actor.
Born: February 12, 1912
Place of Birth: Thornton Heath, London, England, UK
Known For
What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
On the Beat
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
Brothers in Law
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Nearly a Nasty Accident
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on
The Bargee
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
Gideon's Way
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Filmography
as Captain Potts / Inspector Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Field Marshal Hune
as Captain Potts / Inspector Mills / The Chief (archive footage)
as Pusher
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Prof. Bannen
as Culpepper Brown
as Professor Halfbeck
as Robert Gresham
as Col. Dawson
as Station Sergeant
as The Chief
as Mr Parkes, the Foreman
as Harrison Howell
as Mr. Gallagher
as Bank Manager
as M.I.5. Man
as Wentworth
as Police Doctor
as Doctor
as Dr. Morgan Rutherford
as Colonel J.J. Proudfoot
as The Air Minister
as Pym
as Culpepper-Brown
as Capt. David Foster
as The Dean
as Inspector Mills
as Bert Glimmer
as Aubrey Murdock
as Captain Potts
as Vicar
as Culpepper Brown
as Alec Blair
as Mr. Frute
as Chuck Rockley
as Arthur