Mr Sowerberry is a fictional character who appears as a supporting antagonist in Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist. He is an undertaker and coffin...
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Claypole, another employee of Mr. Sowerberry, insults Oliver's dead mother, whereupon Oliver begins pummeling him. Mrs. Sowerberry and her daughter, Charlotte...
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Noah Claypole, who had fled to London with the Sowerberrys' maid Charlotte after robbing Mr Sowerberry, joins Fagin's gang. Following Fagin's orders,...
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Mr. Bumble. After daring to ask for more food, Oliver is sold as an apprentice to Mr. Sowerberry, a local undertaker but runs away when Sowerberry's other...
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Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Sowerberry Gibb McLaughlin as Mr. Sowerberry, undertaker Amy Veness as Mrs. Bedwin Frederick Lloyd as Mr. Grimwig Henry Edwards...
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Mr. Bumble is a fictional character and minor antagonist in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. When the story was first serialised in Bentley's...
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Mr Brownlow is a character from the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Brownlow is a bookish and kindly middle-aged bachelor who helps Oliver...
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with an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry but runs away following harsh treatment from another apprentice named Noah Claypole. Meanwhile, Mr. Bumble and his assistant...
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George Layton, Jim Dale, Russ Abbot, Barry Humphries (who had played Mr Sowerberry in the original 1960 London production of Oliver!) and Robert Lindsay...
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sell him off as an apprentice ("Boy for Sale"). Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker, buys Oliver, but Sowerberry's other apprentice Noah Claypole bullies Oliver;...
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replied, "Obstinate people, Mr. Sowerberry; very obstinate. Proud, too, I'm afraid, sir." "Proud, eh?" exclaimed Mr. Sowerberry with a sneer. "Come, that's...
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(1966), The Whisperers (1967), and Deadfall (1968). In 1968, he played Mr Sowerberry in the film version of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! and took one of...
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apprentice to anyone willing to take him, and he is eventually apprenticed to Sowerberry, the undertaker. Oliver fights with Noah Claypole, an older boy at the...
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apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker, who is partly sympathetic to him, though his wife and their servants abuse Oliver, and Sowerberry's other apprentice...
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for more. His request angers Bumble, who hires him out to work for Mr Sowerberry, a local undertaker. Oliver's situation is not much different than the...
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Characters Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr Sowerberry Mr. Bumble Film adaptations Oliver Twist...
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Claypole, Noah's girlfriend Charlotte, and Mrs Carraway (Mr Brownlow's corrupt new housekeeper), that Mr. Brownlow is ill to the point of death. After Dodger...
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production of The Tempest, directed by Rupert Goold, and Mr. Sowerberry (to Louise Gold's Mrs. Sowerberry) and Dr. Grimwig in the 2009 Theatre Royal Drury Lane...
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(asking "Please, sir...I want some more?"). As a result, Mr. Bumble apprentices him off to Mr. Sowerberry, an uncaring undertaker who mistreats the boy so badly...
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Kavanagh QC Alex Watkins Episode: "Time of Need" 1999 Oliver Twist Mr Sowerberry 2 episodes 2000 Longitude Capt. Man Television film, uncredited 2000...
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Colonel Vogel Porridge (1979) - Banyard Oliver Twist (1982, TV Movie) - Mr. Sowerberry Ivanhoe (1982) - Grand Master The Plague Dogs (1982) - Civil Servant...
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Characters Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr Sowerberry Mr. Bumble Film adaptations Oliver Twist...
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preventing Nancy from keeping her midnight appointment with Rose Maylie and Mr Brownlow, he wondered aloud to Fagin if being indoors for so long in their...
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absolutely brilliant". Barry Humphries, another panellist, who had played Mr Sowerberry, the undertaker, in the original Lionel Bart West End stage production...
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the Orient Express" as well as appearing as Mycroft Holmes in the 2015 film Mr. Holmes. In addition to appearing in the role of Arthur Lowe in the 2015 drama...
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Bull's-Eye. Fagin explains that Losberne once went into partnership with a Mr. Issac Solomon who Losberne also betrayed. Red plants a small bomb in Losberne's...
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family, whom Sikes tried unsuccessfully to rob. She gives Rose Maylie and Mr Brownlow, Oliver's benefactor, information about Oliver's evil half-brother...
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Chitfing Lionel Belmore as Mr. Bumble Tempe Pigott as Mrs. Corney Nelson McDowell as Sowerberry Virginia Sale as Mrs. Sowerberry Harry Holman as Grimwig...
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Fagin's vicious henchman, Bill Sikes, on a house break-in, and has been shot by Mr. Giles, one of the servants. Monks and Fagin plot to get him back, and Nancy...
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first film appearance in the 1968 musical Oliver! as Charlotte, maid to Mr. Sowerberry (played by Leonard Rossiter), and also appeared in the Richard Burton...
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