Penelope Keith

To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy (2024)

A feature-length special retrospective of one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, with new and archival interviews and footage examining the production and enduring cultural impact of the BBC's 'To the Manor Born'. ...

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals (2022)

The cosy sitcom had storylines tackling mid-life crises, drunken wife-swapping and more. ...

Britain's Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire (2020)

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (2011)

A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives. ...

All About The Good Life (2010)

What was it really like behind the scenes of The Good Life? With contributions from Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Monty Don, Brian Sewell and John O'Farrell. ...

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)

Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese. ...

Margery and Gladys (2003)

Haughty housewife Margery and her cleaner Gladys go on the run after mistakenly believing that they have killed a teenage burglar. ...

Coming Home (1998)

Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2. ...

Beauty and the Beast (1992)

As a merchant sets off for market, he asks his three lovely daughters what they would like as a present upon his return. His youngest daughter, who he adoringly calls Beauty, replied. "All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me." Remembering his ...

Hay Fever (1984)

Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward' ...

Spider's Web (1982)

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the dra ...

On Approval (1982)

Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale ...

Priest of Love (1981)

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence w ...

Donkeys' Years (1980)

Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion. ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. ...

Private Lives (1976)

Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoining suites at the same hotel. Containing some of Coward's best dialogue, the play revolves around the agonis ...

Ghost Story (1974)

Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's n ...

Penny Gold (1973)

While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister. ...

Rentadick (1972)

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detecti ...

Take a Girl Like You (1970)

Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a ...

Every Home Should Have One (1970)

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of wh ...

John Clare: "I Am" (1970)

A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), farm labourer, had three obsessions: his youthful love for Mary Joyce, the countryside of his native Northam ...

A Touch of Love (1969)

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the ba ...

Secret Ceremony (1968)

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness. ...

Carry On Doctor (1967)

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period o ...