Cardew Robinson

Cardew Robinson

Douglas John Cardew Robinson (14 August 1917 – 28 December 1992) was a British comic, whose craft was rooted in the music hall and Gang Shows.

  • Title: Cardew Robinson
  • Popularity: 0.5085
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-08-14
  • Place of Birth: Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Douglas John Cardew Robinson
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Cardew Robinson Movies

  • 1968
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    Carry On Up the Khyber

    Carry On Up the Khyber

    6.4 1968 HD

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.

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  • 1967
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    Three Bites of the Apple

    Three Bites of the Apple

    1 1967 HD

    A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.

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  • 1969
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    The Nine Ages of Nakedness

    The Nine Ages of Nakedness

    3 1969 HD

    A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.

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  • 1959
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    The Navy Lark

    The Navy Lark

    6.5 1959 HD

    An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.

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  • 1959
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    I'm All Right Jack

    I'm All Right Jack

    6.6 1959 HD

    Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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  • 1969
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    Hoverbug

    Hoverbug

    1 1969 HD

    The young inventors Dick and Jenny Brewster, build their own 'Hoverbug' and hope to win the race which has been organised for home-made Hovercraft, but their arch rivals, Charlie and Sydney, bend the rules by enlisting professional help and by employing devious means to sabotage the Hoverbug.

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  • 1964
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    Go Kart Go

    Go Kart Go

    6.5 1964 HD

    Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.

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  • 1960
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    A French Mistress

    A French Mistress

    5.7 1960 HD

    The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.

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  • 1960
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    Light Up the Sky!

    Light Up the Sky!

    6.2 1960 HD

    Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

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  • 1955
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    Fun at St. Fanny's

    Fun at St. Fanny's

    5 1955 HD

    Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.

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  • 1954
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    Calling All Cars

    Calling All Cars

    6.7 1954 HD

    Comedy documentary centring on the Dover Harbour car terminal.

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  • 1963
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    Heavens Above!

    Heavens Above!

    6.44 1963 HD

    A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

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  • 1977
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    Come Play with Me

    Come Play with Me

    4.6 1977 HD

    Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!

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  • 1977
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    What's Up Nurse

    What's Up Nurse

    4.143 1977 HD

    When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients.

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  • 1967
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    Smashing Time

    Smashing Time

    6.2 1967 HD

    Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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  • 1989
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    Shirley Valentine

    Shirley Valentine

    6.2 1989 HD

    Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

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  • 1969
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    Where's Jack?

    Where's Jack?

    7.2 1969 HD

    Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.

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  • 1963
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    Ladies Who Do

    Ladies Who Do

    7 1963 HD

    The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

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  • 1971
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    The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

    The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

    4.8 1971 HD

    A septet of satirical vignettes based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

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  • 1964
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    Father Came Too!

    Father Came Too!

    5.5 1964 HD

    When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

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  • 1966
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    Alfie

    Alfie

    6.5 1966 HD

    A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

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  • 1962
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    Crooks Anonymous

    Crooks Anonymous

    5.9 1962 HD

    A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

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  • 1966
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    I Was Happy Here

    I Was Happy Here

    6.1 1966 HD

    Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.

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  • 1961
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    Three on a Spree

    Three on a Spree

    6 1961 HD

    A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!

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  • 1963
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    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    6.5 1963 HD

    The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.

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  • 1962
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    Hair of the Dog

    Hair of the Dog

    5 1962 HD

    Fred Tickle is commissionaire at a razor blade factory, and grows a beard after developing a shaving rash, but his new appearance doesn't go down well with management.

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  • 1969
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    The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time

    The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time

    1 1969 HD

    When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!

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  • 1970
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    It’s the Only Way to Go

    It’s the Only Way to Go

    5.5 1970 HD

    A black comedy, in mime, about the funeral of an old man who dies from an overdose of excitement while watching a young girl strip.

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  • 1963
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    A Stitch in Time

    A Stitch in Time

    7.4 1963 HD

    An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

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  • 1998
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    What's a Carry On?

    What's a Carry On?

    7.8 1998 HD

    Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

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  • 1964
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    Fire Crackers

    Fire Crackers

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1956
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    Hancock's Half Hour

    Hancock's Half Hour

    7.3 1956 HD

    Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

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  • 1964
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    HMS Paradise

    HMS Paradise

    1 1964 HD

    A completely lost early ITV sitcom with strong similarities to the popular radio series The Navy Lark. HMS Paradise is set at a Royal Navy station on an island off the Dorset coast where very little actual work takes place.

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  • 1965
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    The World of Wooster

    The World of Wooster

    5.5 1965 HD

    Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his invaluable manservant Jeeves. It starred Ian Carmichael as Wooster and Dennis Price as Jeeves. Wodehouse initially felt that Carmichael would be fine as Wooster, but later believed that Carmichael overacted; however, Wodehouse was satisfied enough with to later ask Carmichael to portray Bertie or Jeeves in a musical comedy. Carmichael declined, feeling too old to play Bertie again and that public perception prevented him from playing Jeeves. Wodehouse was far more positive about Price's Jeeves, stating that Price was the best Jeeves he had ever seen. Like many other series of the time, much of the episodes were wiped, leaving all but two now lost. In 2018, it was included at #51 in a list of the top 100 most wanted missing television programmes by TV archivist organisation Kaleidoscope.

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