The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix...

Farce Eventually Becomes Ridiculously Funny". The Stage: 13. 27 April 1967. Retrieved 12 May 2019. Marriott, R. B. (23 July 1964). "Whitehall Farce....

the process. His farces for BBC Television also began at the Whitehall, enlarging Rix and Gray's profile as well as that of the Whitehall Theatre. During...

Parliament Street. The Whitehall Theatre (now the Trafalgar Studios) was formerly associated with a series of farces. The name Whitehall was used for several...

wrote that the film "somehow becomes a hell-and-brimstone version of Whitehall farce ... Damien just comes across as an ambitious junior executive who overreaches...

Willy Wonka. Cole met actor Nick Wilton in 1988, at the revival of the Whitehall farce Dry Rot. They married in 1991 and have two children together; they...

Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims and Joanna Lumley. It was based on the Whitehall farce of the same name written by Michael Pertwee, who also wrote the screenplay...

play became a Whitehall farce running for 765 performances between 1964 and 1966. It was televised by the BBC's Laughter from the Whitehall in August 1964...

farce, Wild Horses. It ran from 6 November 1952 to 11 April 1953. In the 1950s and early 1960s, a similar hit series of farces began at the Whitehall...

Lynn". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 30 August 2006. "Maggie Stars in Whitehall Farce". 27 January 1984. Retrieved 26 September 2007. "Hacker in Australia:...

made his West End debut as Grobchick in the 1958 production of the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen. He made his screen debut in 1959 in the film The Night...

principally associated with British farces. From 1956 to 1969 he was a member of Brian Rix's company, first at the Whitehall Theatre, and later at the Garrick...

appearances in the Whitehall farces, the company being managed by her husband Brian Rix, which were originally performed at the Whitehall Theatre and later...

next five years. A series of five long-running farces, presented under the umbrella title "Whitehall farce" by the actor-manager Brian Rix, were staged...

1956: she played Police Sergeant Fire in Dry Rot, an adaptation of the Whitehall farce, and she reprised the role of Emma Hornett in a film version of Sailor...

there allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also to Wilde and Whitehall farce; to the gentility of Ealing Studios, with a plot that distantly evokes...

Vicious. Douglas spent eleven years with Brian Rix’s company in the Whitehall farces, joining in 1954 for John Chapman’s Dry Rot, which ran for more than...

gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96B01172R000300020021-5.pdf Foot, Paul. "Whitehall Farce: Review of The Intelligence Game and The Truth about Hollis", London...

before moving into acting. Wilton made his acting debut in 1980 in the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen, directed by Brian Rix, and went on to play opposite...

written one explicitly dystopian novel, A Very Private Life...", "Whitehall Farces" Patrick Parrinder, London Review of Books, October 8, 1992. Clute...

Sid James. The screenplay is by John Chapman, adapted from his 1954 Whitehall farce of the same name. The plot concerns the practice of gambling, which...

Peter Wimsey story. As a stage actor he was a mainstay of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces company. He specialised in absent minded characters and used his acrobatic...

manager and understudy at the Whitehall Theatre for the first two years of Reluctant Heroes, the first Whitehall farce, he subsequently spent a few years...

A farce, it ran at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End from 15 October 1969 to 23 May 1970. This marked a shorter run than any of the Whitehall farces...

(1967). His theatre credits include One For the Pot, one of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces in the '60s, a spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company which included...

is based on the popular farce of the same title by Colin Morris. The play, which had its West End premiere at the Whitehall Theatre in September 1950...

Darcy Conyers, Bernard Fox and Gene Anderson. It was the first of the Whitehall farces, and concerns a group of National Service recruits. In 1952 it was...

Plastic" "Platform Three" "Sorry" "Los Peckham Ryos" "A Bouquet of Roes" "Whitehall Farce" "What is a Thingummy-jig" "Middlesex Man" "Pick up the Phone" "Eating...

performed there. Cooney began to act in 1946, appearing in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was during this time...

for playing Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis? (initially at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, for which she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance...