Sid James: Not Just A Dirty Laugh
- Radio documentary
- BBC Radio 4
- 2013
- 1 episode
Nearing the centenary of comedy legend Sid James's birth, Lee Mack explores his extraordinary career with newly rediscovered archive material and more. Also features Christopher Fairbank, Bernard Cribbins, Lance Percival, Liz Fraser, Reina James and Keith Morris
See also
The Many Faces Of...
Comedy actors look back at their career, with archive footage and testimony from friends and colleagues.
Bless This House
A popular 1970s sitcom starring Sid James. Sid Abbott is, day-in, day-out, hindered in anything and everything by his family.
Bless This House
Popular sitcom spin-off film starring Sid James, Terry Scott, Diana Coupland and June Whitfield.
Citizen James
Sidney Balmoral James is a quick-witted gambler with an eye for making a fast buck, more often than not involving his friends.
George And The Dragon
Sid James stars as chauffeur George, constantly warring against formidable housekeeper Gabrielle Dragon (Peggy Mount) in the home of Colonel Maynard.
Two In Clover
Back-to-the-earth sitcom starring Sid James and Victor Spinetti as frustrated office workers who buy a farm and hope to return to the 'simple life'.
Hancock's Half Hour
Tony Hancock stars in Galton & Simpson's comic masterpiece, with his delusions of grandeur and acquaintances at the root of his every downfall.
Hancock's Half Hour
Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.
Three Hats For Lisa
Comic caper following a film star, three of her fans and their taxi driver rushing through London in search of three specific types of hat.
What A Carve Up
Comedy horror. Disparate members of the Broughton family are brought together for the reading of Uncle Gabriel's will - but murder appears to be afoot.
The Lavender Hill Mob
An Ealing Studios comedy classic, The Lavender Hill Mob stars Alec Guinness & Stanley Holloway attempting to carry out the perfect crime.
The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw
Fish out of water comedy in which an English businessman trying to sell his firm's goods finds himself appointed Sheriff of a notorious Wild West town.
Sid And Dora
Comedy with award-winning stage and film actress Dora Bryan and 'the king of dirty laughs' Sid James.
Sid James: Comedy Icon
A feature-length documentary looking at stage, screen and radio star Sidney James.