Screenplay: Eric Chappell

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Eric Chappell. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Rising Damp (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Lawrence · Len Lurcuck · Ronnie Baxter · Ian MacNaughton

Cast Leonard Rossiter · Don Warrington · Richard Beckinsale · Frances de la Tour

Synopsis Popular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long suffering tenants. A spin-off feature film was made after the untimely death of...

7.5

85 votes

7.5

85 votes

Duty Free (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Lawrence · Les Chatfield

Cast Keith Barron · Gwen Taylor · Joanna Van Gyseghem · Neil Stacy

Synopsis Duty Free is about two British couples, David and Amy Pearce and Robert and Linda Cochran, who meet while holidaying at the same Spanish hotel in Marbella and the interruptive affair conducted by David Pearce and Linda Cochran during their...

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Home to Roost (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Reynolds

Cast John Thaw · Reece Dinsdale · Elizabeth Bennett · Joan Blackham

Synopsis TV Series (1985–1990). 4 Seasons. Generation-gap comedy about 18 year old Matthew Willows who, seven years after his parents divorce, turns up on his father Henry’s doorstep and announces his intention to live with him. Matthew claims that he can...

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You Again? (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bill Foster · Gerren Keith · Peter Bonerz · Howard Murray

Cast Jack Klugman · John Stamos · Elizabeth Bennett · Valerie Landsburg

Synopsis TV Series (1986-1987). 2 Seasons. 26 episodes. Henry Willows has been divorced for ten years when his son Matt suddenly moves in. Matt is an irresponsible 17-year-old and sparks fly between conservative Henry and his son. Enid is Harry's housekeeper....

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Rising Damp

1980 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph McGrath

Cast Leonard Rossiter · Frances de la Tour · Don Warrington · Christopher Strauli

Synopsis Stingy English landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers Cooper, an arts student, and Philip, an African jock, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, miss Jones, now flirts with both boys rather then...

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