Doctor (film series)

The Doctor movies are a number of classic British film comedies. They are all based on novels by Richard Gordon, who also collaborated on the script usually. They were all of Betty E. Box produced and directed by Ralph Thomas.

The focus of the first three films ( and again in the fifth ) is Simon Sparrow ( in German Herbert Sperling ). First, he is a budding doctor in the last section of the training, later they accompanied him on his first steps in professional life. Sparrow is embodied by Dirk Bogarde, however reluctantly played this role because he felt under-challenged. He also started an international film career. Therefore, the role of occupying a central physician was embodied in later films by other performers. So is Michael Craig in the fourth film Dr. Richard Hare, in the last two films Leslie Phillips embodies only Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke, then Dr. Tony Burke, whom he had also embodied in the fourth part of the series in a supporting role.

The unifying element of all films is James Robertson Justice, of the grumpy but in the end, good-natured Sir Lancelot Spratt embodies ( in the second movie the captain Hogg ). He is always the superior of the central physician. Mostly, the plot entwines it, that those two main characters clash in any way.

Most of the protagonists, a well-known actress is set aside, about Kay Kendall ( film 1 ), Brigitte Bardot ( 2), Shirley Eaton ( 3), Samantha Eggar ( 5), Shirley Anne Field ( 6). In five parts Carry-on ... star Joan Sims plays an even smaller, sometimes larger role. Other sizes of this series as Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, Cyril Chamberlain, Joan Hickson, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Esma Cannon, Eric Barker, John Bluthal, Judith Furse, Jacki Piper, Peter Gilmore, Amanda Barrie and Marianne Stone Accept a part of multiple guest appearances. It also provides other popular British (and some foreign) actors and comedians like Dennis Price, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin, Charles Lloyd Pack, Bernard Miles, Noel Purcell, Ernest Thesiger, George Coulouris, Derek Farr, John Le Mesurier, Mylène Demongeot, Leo McKern, Reginald Beckwith, Richard Briers, John Fraser, Alfie Bass, Sir Harry Secombe, Angela Scoular, Freddie Jones, Yutte Stensgaard and Monty Python Graham Chapman. Over time, the films to a much-loved institution, which can not be seen from this last great squad of stars were. Of course, on the other hand, the films of the Doctor series were ennobled by this collection of stars.

Were produced all the films of The Rank Organisation.

The Movies

Film Series
Comedy
British Film

Michael Craig (actor) Noel Purcell (actor) John Le Mesurier John Fraser (actor)

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