Curse of Steptoe (The)
- Director: Michael Samuels
- Writer: Brian Fillis
- Producer: Abi Bach; Ben Bickerton
CGiii Comment
The people behind the characters - what troubled, horrible and unhappy souls they all were.
This is quality in every single way - the only problem it has, is the length - too short by a mile.
Sublime acting, writing and directing.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal. The show runs for several years, incorporating film spin-offs but both, in their own way, feel that they have invoked the curse of Steptoe.
Cast & Characters
Roger Allam as Tom Sloane;
Jason Isaacs as Harry H Corbett;
Zoe Tapper as Sheila Steafel;
Clare Higgins as Joan Littlewood;
Elspeth Rae as Young Blonde Actress;
Burn Gorman as Ray Galton;
Rory Kinnear as Alan Simpson;
Philip Davis as Wilfrid Brambell;
Ken Oxtoby as Costume Designer;
Ben Parr as Wilfrid's Young Blonde Man;
Peter Hamilton Dyer as Director;
Sophie Hunter as Maureen Corbett;
Julian Forsyth as Clive Goodwin;
Jamie Lennox as Plain Clothes Policeman;
Scott McNess as Boy Outside Theatre