Creator

Johnny Speight

Born June 2, 1920

Died July 5, 1998 · aged 78

No biography available.

Known For

The Alf Garnett SagaThe Alf Garnett Saga · 1972
The Alf Garnett Saga
★ 5.01972
MovieComedy
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife Else, rebellious daughter Rita, and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband Mike.
French DressingFrench Dressing · 1964
French Dressing
★ 5.51964
MovieComedy
A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.
Double BillDouble Bill · 1969
Double Bill
1969
MovieDramaTV Movie
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Mr. TopazeMr. Topaze · 1961
Mr. Topaze
★ 5.91961
MovieComedyDrama
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
Till Death Us Do PartTill Death Us Do Part · 1969
Till Death Us Do Part
★ 7.61969
MovieComedy
Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during the Blitz.
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent ThemIf There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them · 1968
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
★ 9.01968
MovieDrama
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
The PlankThe Plank · 1967
The Plank
★ 6.21967
MovieComedy
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
An Audience with Alf GarnettAn Audience with Alf Garnett · 1997
An Audience with Alf Garnett
1997
MovieComedy
In front of a celebrity audience Johnny Speight's bigoted comic creation Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) vents his spleen on all manner of sensitive subjects. He makes political correctness take a back seat as he gives his opinions on race relations, football, life, the government, sex, drugs and much more.

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