Movies: Lenny Henry

  • 2024
    Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money

    Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money (2024)

    Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money

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    Red Nose Day is back, live from Media City UK, Salford. It’s the UK’s biggest night of comedy and entertainment, so make sure you don’t miss it! The epic three-hour fundraising favourite will entertain the nation with hilarious sketches, live perfor...

    Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money
  • 2016
    Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

    Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood (2016)

    Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

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    Friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular Victoria Wood, who died of cancer in April 2016 at age 62. Victoria wrote some of television's greatest comedy sketches and musicals, ...

    Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
  • 2017
    Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

    Comic Relief: Red Nose Day (2017)

    Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

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    A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief....

    Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
  • 2014
    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule (2014)

    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

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    Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's inve...

    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
  • 2022
    Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

    Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony (2022)

    Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

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    The opening ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, held at the Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr....

    Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony
  • 2006
    It Started with Swap Shop

    It Started with Swap Shop (2006)

    It Started with Swap Shop

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    Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Saturday morning classic Swap Shop to celebrate its 30th anniversary....

    It Started with Swap Shop
  • 1989
    Lenny Live and Unleashed

    Lenny Live and Unleashed (1989)

    Lenny Live and Unleashed

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    It is very rare for a British comedian to be given a concert film all to themself but in 1989 Lenny Henry was given that honour. We start off with him been driven to the concert by Robbie Coltrane as the sort of taxi driver you don't want to get a li...

    Lenny Live and Unleashed
  • 2011
    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse (2011)

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

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    The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private archive of films, TV shows, letters and memorabilia that he left behind....

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
  • 1990
    Oxford

    Oxford (1990)

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    When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his back to enroll in a poetry course. Meanwhile, Hannah Van Hosenstratt comes from New Orleans for the ...

    Oxford
  • 2015
    Danny & the Human Zoo

    Danny & the Human Zoo (2015)

    Danny & the Human Zoo

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    A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry....

    Danny & the Human Zoo
  • 1969
    Work Experience

    Work Experience (1969)

    Work Experience

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    Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Be...

    Work Experience
  • 1989
    Just Like That!

    Just Like That! (1989)

    Just Like That!

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    Just Like That! is a celebration of the comic genius of Tommy Cooper] - just like that! But nobody could do it just like that apart from the unique Mr Cooper himself, and despite his claim never to have used those words. Was Tommy really Henry Coper'...

    Just Like That!
  • 1987
    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball (1987)

    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

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    When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was retooled in an effort to take advantage of the growing number of rock musicians supporting Amnesty. Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy ...

    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
  • 1969
    The Magic Faraway Tree

    The Magic Faraway Tree (1969)

    The Magic Faraway Tree

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    Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Beth, Joe, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents, including Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot, and Saucepan Man. At the top of t...

    The Magic Faraway Tree
  • 1990
    South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

    South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 (1990)

    South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

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    Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands....

    South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
  • 1996
    Famous Fred

    Famous Fred (1996)

    Famous Fred

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    Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his musical career....

    Famous Fred
  • 2019
    Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University

    Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University (2019)

    Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University

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    2019 marks the 50th birthday of the Open University. In its five decades, the OU has educated more than two million students. Sir Lenny Henry is one of them. Sir Lenny presents this documentary, which tells the story of the OU from 1969 to 2019, wi...

    Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University
  • 1988
    The Suicide Club

    The Suicide Club (1988)

    The Suicide Club

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    A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder....

    The Suicide Club
  • 1992
    In Dreams

    In Dreams (1992)

    In Dreams

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    Lenny has some perplexing dreams....

    In Dreams
  • 1989
    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball (1989)

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

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    After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 er...

    The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball