Cast: Ian Carmichael

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ian Carmichael. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Wives and Daughters (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Series · 301 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicholas Renton

Cast Justine Waddell · Bill Paterson · Francesca Annis · Keeley Hawes

Synopsis Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the remarriage of her father, heroine Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell) isn't quite sure how to "take" to her modish stepmother, Hyacinth (Francesca Annis), and...

6.8

214 votes

6.8

214 votes

I'm All Right Jack

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Peter Sellers · Terry-Thomas · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Simon and Laura

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg

Synopsis In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the...

6.4

27 votes

6.4

27 votes

The Colditz Story

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast John Mills · Christopher Rhodes · Lionel Jeffries · Bryan Forbes

Synopsis Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle.

6.3

106 votes

6.3

106 votes

School for Scoundrels

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Ian Carmichael · Terry-Thomas · Alastair Sim · Janette Scott

Synopsis An amiable idiot cures his inferiority complex without completely discarding his conscience after graduating from the College of Lifemanship.

6.3

52 votes

6.3

52 votes

Storm Over the Nile

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zoltan Korda · Terence Young

Cast Laurence Harvey · Anthony Steel · James Robertson Justice · Mary Ure

Synopsis Korda directs The Four Feathers again, not so much a remake as a re-mount: with the same director, same script and much of the same footage. Charisma-free Anthony Steel is the man given the white feather treatment for cowardice, Laurence...

6.0

245 votes

6.0

245 votes

Heavens Above!

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Peter Sellers · Cecil Parker · Isabel Jeans · Ian Carmichael

Synopsis A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.

5.9

122 votes

5.9

122 votes

The Lady Vanishes

1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Angela Lansbury · Cybill Shepherd · Elliott Gould · Herbert Lom

Synopsis During a travel by train across the pre-Second World War Germany, the American heiress Amanda Kelly met sweet English nanny Miss Froy. She mysteriously disappeared and everyone in the train denies having ever seen her. Amanda and American photographer Robert...

5.8

193 votes

5.8

193 votes

From Beyond the Grave

1974 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Connor

Cast Peter Cushing · Ian Bannen · Ian Carmichael · Diana Dors

Synopsis Anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes strung together about an antique dealer (Peter Cushing) who owns a shop called Temptations Ltd. and the fate that befalls his customers who try to cheat him. Stories...

5.8

488 votes

5.8

488 votes

Betrayed

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Victor Mature · Louis Calhern

Synopsis Three screen legends, Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature, team up for this espionage thriller set during the Second World War. In Nazi-occupied Holland, Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer is aligned with the British forces and searching for a traitor...

5.8

291 votes

5.8

291 votes

Diamond Skulls (Dark Obsession)

1989 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nick Broomfield

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Amanda Donohoe · Struan Rodger · Douglas Hodge

Synopsis Hugo, heir to a fortune, is married to Ginny. They have a young son, and she seems devoted to Hugo, but jealousy wracks him: he imagines her in the arms of a colleague, he spies on her, he rages. One...

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Happy Is the Bride

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Janette Scott · Cecil Parker · Terry-Thomas

Synopsis In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing...

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Bond Street

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr

Synopsis A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in London.

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Double Bunk

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards

Cast Ian Carmichael · Janette Scott · Sid James · Liz Fraser

Synopsis When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they...

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Private's Progress

1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Ronald Adam · Henry B. Longhurst · Peter Jones

Synopsis Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material. This leads him to meets up with wily Private Cox who knows...

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The Peter Sellers Story

1995 · Documentary · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Lydon

Cast Roy Boulting · Max Bygraves · Ian Carmichael · Bryan Forbes

Synopsis The life and time of comedy genius Peter Sellers, told with the help of his extraordinary collections of home movies and featuring interviews with family, friends and colleagues.

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The World of Wooster (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Mills

Cast Dennis Price · Ian Carmichael · Derek Nimmo · Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1967). 3 seasons. 20 episodes.

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Lucky Jim

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast John Welsh · Ronald Cardew · Hugh Griffith · Kenneth Griffith

Synopsis Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic...

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Trottie True

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Jean Kent · James Donald · Hugh Sinclair · Lana Morris

Synopsis In the 1890s Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. Later on she wonders if Sid wasn't better after all and seeks to find out.

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Brothers in Law

1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Richard Attenborough · Ian Carmichael · Terry-Thomas · Jill Adams

Synopsis Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm.

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Not rated