The Pot Carriers
Encyclopedia
The Pot Carriers is a 1962
British comedy drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott
and starring Ronald Fraser
, Paul Massie
, Carole Lesley
and Dennis Price
. The film is set in a British prison.
1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....
British comedy drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott
Peter Graham Scott
Peter Graham Scott was an English film producer, film director, film editor and screenwriter. One of the producers and directors who shaped British television drama in its formative years, Scott brought a background in film editing and directing to his work that helped to move the small screen out...
and starring Ronald Fraser
Ronald Fraser
Ronald Fraser was an English character actor, who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s whilst also appearing in many popular TV shows.-Background:...
, Paul Massie
Paul Massie
Paul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s...
, Carole Lesley
Carole Lesley
Carole Lesley was a British actor who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell".She starred in What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play.She died of a drug overdose.- External links :*...
and Dennis Price
Dennis Price
Dennis Price was an English actor, remembered for his suave screen roles, particularly Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G...
. The film is set in a British prison.
Cast
- Ronald FraserRonald FraserRonald Fraser was an English character actor, who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s whilst also appearing in many popular TV shows.-Background:...
as Red Band - Paul MassiePaul MassiePaul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s...
as Rainbow - Carole LesleyCarole LesleyCarole Lesley was a British actor who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell".She starred in What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play.She died of a drug overdose.- External links :*...
as Wendy - Dennis PriceDennis PriceDennis Price was an English actor, remembered for his suave screen roles, particularly Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G...
as Smooth Tongue - Paul RogersPaul Rogers (actor)Paul Rogers is an English actor of film, stage and television.Rogers was born in Plympton, Devon, England, and later trained at the Michael Chekhov Theatre Studio at Dartington Hall and made his film debut in 1932...
as Governor - Davy KayeDavy KayeDavy Kaye MBE , born as David Kodeish, was a British comedy actor and entertainer.-Early life:...
as Mouse - Eddie ByrneEddie ByrneEddie Byrne was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Vanden Willard in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but fans of cult sci-fi might also remember him as the skeptical Inspector Mulrooney in The Mummy and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in...
as Chief Officer Bailey - Campbell SingerCampbell SingerCampbell Singer was a British character actor who featured in a number of film and television roles during his long career....
as Prison Officer Mott - Alfred BurkeAlfred BurkeAlfred Burke was a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the drama series Public Eye, which ran on television for ten years.-Early life:...
as Lang - Patrick McAlinneyPatrick McAlinneyPatrick McAlinney was an Irish-born character actor who starred in many British dramas and sitcoms. His most memorable roles included a brother on the hit sitcom Oh, Brother! which starred Derek Nimmo, Mr. O'Reilly in The Tomorrow People and Dr...
as Dillon - Neil McCarthy as Bracket
- Vanda GodsellVanda GodsellVanda Godsell was an English actress.-Early life:She was born near Bristol into the well known Godsell family, best known for its brewery based in Stroud. Her father was an officer in the Navy and served in the Battle of Jutland whilst her mother, Muriel, was the sister of novelist and actress...
as Mrs. Red Band - David Davies as Prison Officer Tom
- David Ensor as Judge
- Keith FaulknerKeith FaulknerKeith Faulkner is an English-born British actor who started his career at Corona Academy in childhood at the age of eleven and moved onto andult career in film and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s before leaving the "business" and moving to Australia, with the Telecommunications...
as Young Prisoner - Norman ChappellNorman ChappellNorman Chappell was a British character actor most known for his roles in the Carry On films and in The Avengers...
as Prisoner Robert - Alister WilliamsonAlister WilliamsonAlister Williamson was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the 1960s and 1970s. A big, craggy-faced man, he would usually be found playing gruff police inspectors or henchmen in adventure series and police dramas of the period...
as Escorting Prison Officer - Charles Morgan as Chief Disciplinary Prison Officer
- Martin WyldeckMartin Wyldeck-Selected filmography:* My Wife's Lodger * Time Bomb * Timeslip * Just Joe * The Girl on the Boat * The Pot Carriers * Night Must Fall * The Return of Mr...
as Prison Officer Mullins - Richard Shaw as Prison Officer Willis
- Clifford EarlClifford EarlClifford Earl is an English actor who has appeared in numerous television programmes and films. He appeared in the TV series Doctor Who twice, as the Station Sergeant in The Daleks' Master Plan in 1965, and as Major Branwell in The Invasion in 1968...
as Prison Officer (Kitchen) - Bruce SetonBruce SetonMajor Sir Bruce Lovat Seton of Abercorn, 11th Baronet , better known as Bruce Seton, was a British actor and soldier....
as Prison Officer I / C Cell Block - John Tate as Prison Officer I / C Visiting Room
- Windsor DaviesWindsor DaviesWindsor Davies is a British actor, well known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the 1970s/1980s British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.-Early life and career:...
as Police Constable - Frank Pettitt as Van Driver
- Sidney VivianSidney Vivian-Selected filmography:* Dick Barton Strikes Back * Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress * Whispering Smith Hits London * Lady Godiva Rides Again * Down Among the Z Men * The Great Game...
as Bus Conductor - Douglas MuirDouglas MuirDouglas N. Muir is the Curator of Philately at the British Postal Museum & Archive and a signatory to the Book of Scottish Philatelists.Muir was born in Balfron, Scotland, and subsequently attended Glasgow University where he studied geography and archaeology...
as Court Usher