Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for his role in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their debut film A Hard Day’s Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney.
Wilfrid Brambell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Wilfrid Brambell |
| Also Know | Wilfred Brambell, Wilfred Bramble |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of Birth | 1912-03-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1985-01-18 |
Wilfrid Brambell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Steptoe and Son | Albert Steptoe | 1972-03-01 | Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk ya… |
| Death and Transfiguration | Robert Tucker | 1983-01-01 | In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker’s life: he’s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas… |
| Steptoe and Son Ride Again | Steptoe / Albert | 1973-05-01 | Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at th… |
| Captured | 1959-01-01 | Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British P… | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | 1964-11-15 | TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young … | |
| High Rise Donkey | Ben Foxcroft | 1980-01-01 | The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by providing… |
| Break-In | 1956-04-30 | A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime…. | |
| The Terence Davies Trilogy | Robert Tucker (old age) | 1983-11-01 | These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in “Children”, then… |
| The Island of Adventure | Uncle Jocelyn | 1981-12-01 | Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters…. |
| San Ferry Ann | Grandad | 1965-07-01 | A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family le… |
| Another Shore | Arthur Moore | 1948-11-24 | A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies…. |
| The Sinister Man | Lock-Keeper | 1961-12-01 | When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert…. |
| The Small World of Sammy Lee | Harry | 1963-04-20 | The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money…. |
| Alice in Wonderland | White Rabbit | 1966-12-26 | Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th… |
| A Hard Day’s Night | Grandfather | 1964-07-07 | Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ is a wildly irreverent jour… |
| Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence | Malipieri | 1969-10-30 | Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th c… |
| Go Kart Go | Junkman Fred | 1964-06-15 | Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are…. |
| Lionheart | Dignett | 1968-01-01 | A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy…. |
| Where the Bullets Fly | Train Guard | 1966-09-06 | In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,… |
| The Salvage Gang | Tramp | 1958-08-01 | Four children try to raise money to replace a broken saw, taking them on an unexpected journey through the capital…. |
| Cry WoIf | Delivery man | 1969-01-02 | A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a d… |
| In Search of the Castaways | Bill Gaye | 1962-12-01 | Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the childr… |
| Holiday on the Buses | Bert Thompson | 1973-05-19 | Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car… |
| Some Will, Some Won’t | Henry Russell | 1970-04-01 | Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker…. |
| Crooks in Cloisters | Phineas | 1964-01-01 | Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disuse… |
| The Boys | Norman Albert Brewer | 1962-08-31 | A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of … |
| Flame in the Streets | Mr. Palmer senior | 1961-06-19 | Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets dur… |
| The Adventures of Picasso | Alice B. Toklas | 1978-05-20 | Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live i… |
| What a Whopper | Postie | 1961-10-17 | A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn’t reall… |
| Witchfinder General | Master Loach | 1968-05-17 | England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness … |
| Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Porter | 1984-08-17 | Gawain was a squire in King Arthur’s court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the l… |
| Serious Charge | Verger | 1959-04-30 | Howard Phillips, a vicar who’s new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar’s daughter, Hester Peters, who fears bei… |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Old Man / Thin Prisoner | 1954-12-12 | A man who works for ‘The Party’ (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as ‘Big Brother’) begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a … |
| Odd Man Out | Standing Passenger on Tram (uncredited) | 1947-01-30 | Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery…. |
| Catch Me a Spy | Beech | 1971-09-06 | While on vacation, a woman’s husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and… |
| Carry On Again Doctor | Mr. Pullen | 1969-12-05 | Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flie… |
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