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The Mayor's Charity

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ComedyTV Movie

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.

11-29-1977
1h 20m
The Mayor's Charity

Main Cast

Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.

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Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Kinnear, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Terence Rigby

Terence Rigby

Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film credits including Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Dies, Essex Boys and Watership Down. On television, he memorably played police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running 1970s Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly: Taskforce, as well as starring in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Crossroads, Common as Muck and The Beiderbecke Affair.

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Ray Smith

Ray Smith

Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley - a touching performance given that Smith;s own father was a miner killed in a pit accident when Smith was just three years old. His final role work was in the TV adaptation of Kingsley Amis' novel, The Old Devils. He died just before filming concluded at the age of 55 from a massive heart attack and won the posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor in 1992.

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Harry Landis

Harry Landis

Harry Landis was a British actor with a long career in British television and film. He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre and was elected as President of Equity, the British actors' union, in July 2002. He was best known for films such as A Hill in Korea, Dunkirk, Bitter Victory, and Edge of Tomorrow, and numerous TV credits including EastEnders and Friday Night Dinner. He died at the age of 90 on September 12th, 2022.

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Stan Richards

Stan Richards

Stanley Richardson, known professionally as Stan Richards, was an English television actor, best known for his portrayal of Seth Armstrong in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, a role he played from 1978 until his death from emphysema in 2005 at the age of 74.

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
Mike Newell
Writer:
Henry Livings

Key Crew

Producer:
Richard Broke

Locations and Languages

Country:
GB
Languages:
en