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Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

0.0 211 mins 1957
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Release Date: 16 Mon, Dec 1957

Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comedy performer. Here's a chance to see what made him so special - the surviving episodes from Series 2 and Series 3 of Hancock's Half Hour, plus a Christmas special. Episodes include: "The Alpine Holiday", "Air Steward Hancock", "The Last Of The Many", "The Lawyer: The Crown vs Sidney James", "Competitions: How To Win Money And Influence People" and "There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden". The Christmas special is "Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes: The East Cheam Repertory Company".

Casts of Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

Tony Hancock

as Tony Aloysius Hancock

Sidney James

as Sidney Balmoral James

Richard Wattis

as Hotelier

Kenneth Williams

as East Dulwich Yodelling Champion

June Whitfield

as Miss Duboir

John Vere

as Passenger / Airline Official / Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Pools / Vicar / Various

Peggy Ann Clifford

as Air Hostess

Dennis Chinnery

as Pilot

Liz Fraser

as Autograph Hunter

Rose Howlett

as Hotel Guest / Passenger

Clinton Ffrench

as Passenger

Manville Tarrant

as Porter / Police Sergeant / Police Constable / Fireman / Guest

Bill Fraser

as Inspector Collins / Police Sergeant

Dave Freeman

as Police Constable

Peter Allenby

as Customs Officer

Leslie Smith

as Pilot / Magazine Man / Young Husband

Richard Statman

as Pilot

Stuart Hillier

as Pilot

Philip Carr

as Pilot / Magazine Man

Cameron Hall

as Passenger / Colonel

Johnny Vyvyan

as Man in Customs Queue / Barrister’s Clerk / Newspaper Boy / Bassist

James Bulloch

as Passport Officer

Alec Bregonzi

as Pilot on Plane / Court Official / ‘Tittle Tattle’ Man / Violinist

Harry Drew

as Passenger

Ann Marryott

as Tannoy Girl / Policewoman

Basil Beale

as Constable / Assistant

Evelyn Lund

as Passenger / Violist

Stella Kemball

as Passenger

Charles Julian

as Passenger

Con Courtney

as Passenger

George Crowther

as Passenger

Susan Cox

as Passenger

John Le Mesurier

as Lord Chief Justice Williams

Raymond Rollett

as Barrister

Arthur Mullard

as PC Trubshaw

Hugh Lloyd

as Clerk of the Court / ‘Picture Parade’ Man

Anthony Shirvell

as Jury Foreman / Magazine Man

Dick Emery

as Postman / Surveyor

Campbell Singer

as Policeman

Mario Fabrizi

as Waiter / Mario Fabrizi

Bruce Wightman

as Mr. Perkins

Burt Kwouk

as Japanese Man

Gordon Phillott

as Emily’s Husband

Nancy Roberts

as Emily

Paddi Edwards

as Young Wife

Elizabeth Gott

as Guest

Anne Reid

as Secretary

Claude Bonser

as Defendant / Henry

Brenda Duncan

as Mrs. Farley

Esther McPherson

as Surveyor’s Wife

Patrick Milner

as Swiss Gendarme / Court Usher /Guest

Max Geldray

as Himself

John Gregson

as Himself

The Keynotes

as Themselves

Bert Allison

as Juryman (uncredited)

Alistair Audsley

as Juryman (uncredited)

Victor Bryant

as Swiss Gendarme (uncredited)

Joyce Hemson

as Jurywoman (uncredited)

John Herrington

as Juryman (uncredited)

Colette O'Neil

as Jurywoman (uncredited)

Roger Ostime

as Police Constable (uncredited)

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