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Frankie Howerd
- English
- Actor and comedian
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Born in York and raised in London, Frankie Howerd was a comedian best-known for his outrageous stand-up monologues and asides to the audience. Over numerous career highs and lows, he is best remembered for appearing in a number of Carry On films and the BBC sitcom Up Pompeii!.
Year | Production | Role |
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2020 | Frankie Howerd: In His Own Words | Self (Archive Material) |
2018 | Comedy Legends - Series 1
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Self (Archive Material) |
2016 | The Interviews - Series 2
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Self (Archive Material) |
2015 | Legends Of Stand-Up And Bernard Righton
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Self (Archive Material) |
2015 | Talking Comedy | Self (Archive Material) |
2013 | Frankie Howerd: The Lost Tapes | Self (Archive Material) |
2012 | God Save The Queens
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Self (Archive Material) |
2011 | Greatest Ever Carry On Films | Self (Archive Material) |
2011 | The Story Of Variety With Michael Grade
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Self (Archive Material) |
2009 | Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story | Self (Archive Material) |
2004 | Sex, Secrets & Frankie Howerd | Self (Archive Material) |
2002 | Reputations: Frankie Howerd | Self (Archive Material) |
2001 | Thou Art Awful ... But I Like Thee | Self (Archive Material) |
2000 | The Unforgettable... - Series 2
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Self (Archive Material) |
2000 | Legends - Series 1
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Self (Archive Material) |
1996 | Frankie Howerd At His Tittermost | Host / Presenter |
1995 | Heroes Of Comedy - Series 1 | Self (Archive Material) |
1993 | Then Churchill Said To Me
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Private Potts |
1993 | Then Churchill Said To Me
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General Fearless Freddy Hollocks |
1992 | Frankie's On...
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Self |
1991 | Up Pompeii! - Further Up Pompeii | Lurcio |
1991 | All Change - Series 2 | Uncle Bob |
1990 | Frankie Howerd On Campus | Self |
1990 | Arena: Oooh ER Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story | Self |
1989 | All Change - Series 1 | Uncle Bob |
1987 | The Ronnie Corbett Show (as Mr Fred Wetherby)
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Guest |
1987 | Frankie Howerd's Forum | Host / Presenter |
1987 | Superfrank | Host / Presenter |
1984 | What A Carry On
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Self (Archive Material) |
1981 | Frankie Howerd Strikes Again | Self |
1980 | Frankie Howerd Reveals All | Host / Presenter |
1979 | The Plank | Photographer |
1979 | The Frankie Howerd Variety Show - Series 2
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Host / Presenter |
1978 | The Frankie Howerd Variety Show - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
1977 | That's Carry On! | Self (Archive Material) |
1976 | The Howerd Confessions
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Frankie |
1975 | A Touch Of The Casanovas | Fransisco |
1975 | Frankie Howerd's Tittertime | Self |
1975 | Frankie Howerd - Series 3 | Host / Presenter |
1975 | Up Pompeii! - Further Up Pompeii! | Lurcio |
1974 | Frankie Howerd - Series 2 | Host / Presenter |
1974 | Francis Howerd In Concert | Host / Presenter |
1974 | Howerd's History Of England | Various |
1973 | Frankie Howerd - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
1973 | An Evening With Francis Howerd | Host / Presenter |
1973 | Frankie And 'Tommy' | Self |
1973 | The House In Nightmare Park | Foster Twelvetrees |
1973 | Frankie Howerd In Ulster | Self |
1973 | Whoops Baghdad
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Ali Oopla |
1972 | Up The Front | Lurk |
1971 | Up The Chastity Belt | Lurkalot |
1971 | Up The Chastity Belt | King Richard |
1971 | Frankie Howerd's Hour | Self |
1971 | Frankie Howerd: The Laughing Stock Of Television | Self |
1971 | Up Pompeii | Lurcio |
1970 | Up Pompeii! - Series 2
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Lurcio |
1970 | Carry On Forever | Self |
1970 | Carry On Up The Jungle | Prof. Inigo Tinkle |
1970 | Up Pompeii! - Series 1
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Caesar |
1970 | Up Pompeii! - Series 1
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Lurcio |
1970 | Cucumber Castle | Dying King |
1969 | Carry On Christmas - Carry On Christmas | Fairy Godmother |
1969 | Carry On Christmas - Carry On Christmas | Robert Browning |
1969 | Up Pompeii! - Pilot | Lurcio |
1969 | The Frankie Howerd Show | Self |
1969 | Frankie Howerd At The Poco A Poco | Self |
1968 | The Frankie Howerd Show | Self |
1968 | Howerd's Hour | Host / Presenter |
1968 | Carry On Doctor | Francis Bigger |
1966 | Frankie And Bruce | Host / Presenter |
1966 | Frankie Howerd
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Host / Presenter |
1966 | Frankie Howerd - Series 2 | Self |
1966 | East Of Howerd | Self |
1966 | The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery | Alfred Askett |
1964 | Frankie Howerd - Series 1 | Self |
1964 | A Last Word On The Election | Writer |
1964 | A Last Word On The Election | Host / Presenter |
1963 | Have You Read This Notice? | Norman Fox |
1963 | The Fast Lady | Sewer Workman |
1963 | The Cool Mikado | Actor |
1961 | Watch It, Sailor! | Church Organist |
1960 | Ladies And Gentle-Men | Host / Presenter |
1960 | Frankie's Bandbox | Host / Presenter |
1959 | Frankly Howerd | Frankie |
1958 | Frankie Howerd In...
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Various |
1958 | The Frankie Howerd Show | Self |
1958 | Fine Goings On - Series 2 | Host / Presenter |
1957 | The Howerd Crowd | Self |
1956 | A Touch Of The Sun | Bill Darling |
1956 | Jumping For Joy | Willie Joy |
1955 | An Alligator Named Daisy | Self |
1955 | The Ladykillers | The Barrow Boy |
1955 | The Howerd Crowd - Series 2 | Self |
1954 | Tons Of Money | Aubrey Henry Maitland Allington |
1954 | The Runaway Bus | Percy Lamb |
1953 | The Frankie Howerd Show - Series 1 | Self |
1953 | The Frankie Howerd Show | Self |
1953 | Nuts In May | Self |
1952 | Frankie Howerd's Korean Party | Self |
1952 | Frankie Howerd Goes East | Host / Presenter |
1952 | The Howerd Crowd - Series 1 | Self |
1951 | Frankie Howerd's Christmas Show | Host / Presenter |
1951 | Fine Goings On - Series 1 | Host / Presenter |
1949 | Variety Bandbox
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Self |
1946 | Variety Bandbox
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Self |
Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Frankie Howerd on IMDb
- Born
- Tuesday 6th March 1917
- Died
- Sunday 19th April 1992 (aged 75)
- Full name
- Francis Howerd
- Title
- Francis Alick Howerd OBE
- Nationality
- English
Frankie Howerd was born Francis Howard in York in March 1917, before moving to south London at the age of 3 when his serviceman father was posted to the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.
Picking up his mother's love of the theatre and show business at a young age, he made his first stage appearance - and began writing his own jokes and plays - whilst studying under a scholarship at Shooter's Hill Grammar School.
Plying his trade across London at whatever opportunity arose, Frankie's career - like so many others - was interrupted, and then greatly emboldened, but the outbreak of war. Called up just days before his 23rd birthday in 1940, he began performing for his fellow troops, although failed auditions for every formal concert party group.
After being demobbed in 1946 he secured an agent and began conquering the stage, radio, and eventually both the small and silver screen. His career has often been described as a series of ups and downs; going out of fashion, before being rediscovered by a new generation and fitting his performing talents to a new vehicle or other; from bawdy farce, to biting satire at Peter Cook's Establishment club.
Frankie's biggest career 'up' was the 1969-1975 BBC1 sitcom Up Pompeii!, which spawned not only a feature film adaptation, but numerous sequels in the same vein, both on film and television, and was revived again by ITV at Christmas 1991.
His final career resurgence began in the late 1980s, and he was still riding this wave at the time of his death, on 19th April 1992, aged 75. He had at this time recorded four of six episodes for a brand new TV stand-up series, Frankie's On....
- BAFTA Television Awards 1971
- Best Light Entertainment Performance (Nominee)
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