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Appeared in Spike Milligan series.
8th July 1980.

Also starred: John Bluthal, Bob Todd and David Lodge.

 
 
 

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  enlarge PETER COOK AND CO (ITV)  

Director/Producer: Paul Smith
Cast:
Peter Cook, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Beryl Reid
1 x 60m

One hour special started with Roald Dahl spoof called 'Tales of the Much As We Expected', also a sketch as a teutonic ant expert called Professor Heinrich Globnick, and a re-make of an Establishment film showing Neville Chamberlain (John Cleese) returning from Munich. [picture:left]
The one off show closed with Peter as E.L.Wisty singing 'Lovely Lady of the Roses' This floats about on a bootleg - but not officially released.

 

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AN EVENING AT THE COURT

 

Director: Humphrey Barclay
Producer: Adrian Slade
Cast: Peter Cook, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Garden, Bill Oddie, Rowan Atkinson, David Frost, John Fortune, David Frost, Eleanor Bron, Willie Rushton and French and Saunders.

Theatre Royal, Druary Lane fundraising show.

Peter appeared as E.L.Wisty in a new sketch, with John Cleese, called 'Inalienable Rights'.

 
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BLACKADDER (BBC1)

 

Written: Max Damski
Script: Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis

Appeared in a small but effective role as Richard III with Rowan Atkinson.

 

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    SUPERGIRL (FILM)
 

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Screenplay: David Odell
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter Cook, Peter O'Toole.

Bollocks.

 
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TWENTY YEARS ON (ITV)

 

Cast: David Frost, Peter Cook, John Wells, Willie Rushton.

An updated version of the sixties comedy show "The Frost Report which ran for 5 episodes (Also four more episodes a year later) and featured Peter Cook as E.L.Wisty.

 
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    WHOOPS APOCALYPSE!
 

Director: Tom Bussmann
Screenplay: Andrew Marshall and Davis Renwick
Cast: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Michael Richards, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson, Alexei Sayle, and Herbert Lom.

Peter appears as Sir Mortimer; the British Prime Minister, but despite similar holocaust premise to earlier Beyond The Fringe stage show, this is an unsuccessful film re-working of the excellent TV show of the same name.

 
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SATURDAY LIVE (CHANNEL 4)

 

Hosted and Performed in one episode on 23rd March '86.

Appeared in a sketch as President Marcos, as Lord Stockton (Harold Macmillan), with John Fortune in a park bench sketch, and as Kubla Kahn. Check this out on You Tube.

 

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MR JOLLY LIVES NEXT DOOR (FILM)

 

Director: Stephen Frears
Screenplay: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Roland Rivron.
Cast: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Cook, Peter Richardson, Nicholas Parsons, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders.

Peter Cook appears in a brief but brilliant cameo as an axe murderer (Mr Jolly), who chops up his victims to the music of Tom Jones.

 

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE (FILM)

 

Director: Rob Reiner
Screenplay: William Goldman
Cast: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon and Robin Wright, Peter Cook, Billy Crystal, Wallace Shawm and Andre the Giant.

Fairy tale adventure about a man who must rescue his one-true love.

Peter Cook appears briefly as an eccentric bishop.

 

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    WITHOUT A CLUE  
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Screenplay: Gary Murphy and Lawrence Strawther
Cast: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman and Peter Cook.

Another Sherlock Holmes comedy in which Cook plays a cameo as an editor of the 'Strand' magazine.
 
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    GETTING IT RIGHT
 

Director: Randal Kleiser
Screenplay: Elizabeth Jane Howard
Cast: Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Cook, John Gielgud, Jane Horrocks, Shirley Anne Field and Lynn Redgrave.

Romantic comedy about a 31-year old virgin and his experiences with women.
Cook does a brief comic turn as a villainous salon owner

 
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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

 

Director: Jim McBride
Screenplay: Jack Baran and Jim McBride
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin & Steve Allen and Peter Cook.

Biopic of Jerry Lee Lewis. Peter plays an English newspaper reporter.

 
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    SECRET POLICEMAN'S BIGGEST BALL
 

Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Monty Python (part of), French and Saunders etc..

Amnesty Gala shown on (ITV) 28th October 1989 in which they performed "One Leg Too Few" and "Frog and Peach" yet again.

 
   
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