Eric Sykes

Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Actor), 3 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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A supernatural thriller that begs the question of who to trust, what to fear and what to believe, then topples every assumption. (Dimension Films)
An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc. (imdb)
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts. (imdb)
In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women. (imdb)
A tribute to Spike Milligan recorded six months after his death, featuring performances and readings of some of his best material. (imdb)
A fairly standard Louis Lamour western. Shalako, the hunter and tracker has to save a party of European hunters who are in danger from an Indian uprising. (imdb)
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. (imdb)
The Plank (1979) - TV Special
Remake of the 1967 comedy short of the same name, about two construction workers who encounter serious problems while undertaking the apparently simple task of buying a plank.
Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of spies and defections. The Chief tells him to do something about it so he hires Boys Oaks as Agent L - The Liquidator, to assassinate people about to cause trouble. Although Boys likes the cars and the girls that his new position attracts he's not any good at it. He's also got a phobia about flying that makes jetting off to exotic places a bit of an embarrassment. (imdb)
A spoof on the cold war spy genre with a bulldog presented as a gift to the Russians becoming the centre of a farcical series of events when British agents implant a microphone in the unsuspecting mutt to listen in on the Soviet top brass. (allrovi.com)
Uk 80's comedy duo Cannon and Ball are two inept police officers in the village of Little Botham. The village is so quiet that the station is threatened with closure. In an attempt to keep it open they stumble across a local art thief gang responsible for a million pound theft.
A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.
Hemel Pike is a canal barge casanova, aided and abetted by his illiterate cousin, Ronnie. Hemel has a girl in every town along his route, and each one is intent on marriage. He is finally caught when one of the girls, Christine, falls pregnant. Her protective father, a 'larger than life' character, who holds the canal record for drinking 29 pints of 'Brown & Mild' in a single session, is understandably upset by his daughter's situation. (imdb)
Life and loves of a country boy who makes it on the London stage, but misses home. (imdb)
If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981) - TV Movie
A rather unusual British comedy, the plot involves some killings happening in the woods and a scoutmaster, who goes ahead with his boys anyway (imdb)
Reprobate photographer and part time private investigator (Terry Thomas) is hired by a batty old woman to go undercover into a health farm managed by Eric Sykes, to investigate a suspicious death. Enter Lionel Jeffries as the Scotland yard Inspector aided by his Sergeant (a young Ronnie Barker) (imdb)
The Unforgettable Frankie Howerd (2000) - TV Movie
Tribute to the outrageous comedian whose throwaway one-liners and catchphrases hid the troubled soul of a man tortured by nerves, neuroses and guilt about his homosexuality.
Three former convicts track their old leader to a health camp and join him in a failed plan to rob the army camp nearby. (BFI)
An absurdist comedy wherein an eccentric family act out their obsessions -- including a son who trains talking scales to sing, and a father who participates in a trial at a replica of the Old Bailey court in his home.
Sykes (1972) - TV Series
Eric and Hattie are eccentric twins whose surreal antics annoy their snobbish neighbor Mr. Brown and land them in frequent trouble with the local constable. (imdb)