Terry Thomas defined the "upper class cad" of British comedy.
by alexanderdavies-99382 | created - 26 Mar 2020 | updated - 26 Mar 2020 | PublicA highly popular comedian from the mid 1950s to the early 60s, Terry Thomas excelled at the role of the posh, roguish but lovable cad. That character became his stock-in-trade during his career, after having some success on radio. Like Peter Sellers, Thomas became popular in Hollywood for a time. With ill health in later years, Terry Thomas had to retire from show business and move back to England, where he remained until his passing.
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1. Private's Progress (1956)
102 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones
Votes: 903
2. School for Scoundrels (1960)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Directors: Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott
Votes: 3,895
3. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim
Votes: 1,420
4. Your Past Is Showing (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 2,044
5. Too Many Crooks (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw
Votes: 1,253
6. Make Mine Mink (1960)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 1,130
7. Brothers in Law (1957)
94 min | Comedy
Roger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen for his fellow lawyers.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Henry B. Longhurst, Edith Sharpe, Ian Carmichael, Henry Hewitt
Votes: 468
8. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,366
9. Happy Is the Bride (1958)
84 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 117
10. The Green Man (1956)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
Directors: Robert Day, Basil Dearden | Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
Votes: 2,325
11. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Approved | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 46,132 | Gross: $46.30M
12. A Matter of WHO (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man's death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers
Votes: 193
13. Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy
A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty.
Directors: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen
Votes: 868
14. Lucky Jim (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 776
15. His and Hers (1961)
90 min | Comedy
Returned from North Africa, a British novelist is at odds with his wife when she insists on dividing the house and the domestic chores, and he goes mad when she starts writing his biography and flirting with his publisher.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nicole Maurey
Votes: 285
16. How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy
A dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff
Votes: 6,952 | Gross: $12.47M
17. Tom Thumb (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A boy (Russ Tamblyn), no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves (Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers) determined to make a fortune from him.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Russ Tamblyn, June Thorburn, Peter Sellers, Alan Young
Votes: 2,861
18. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
G | 138 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi
Votes: 9,232 | Gross: $31.11M
19. Robin Hood (1973)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The story of the legendary British outlaw portrayed with the characters as anthropomorphic animals.
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, David Hand | Stars: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Roger Miller, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 138,939 | Gross: $32.06M
20. Operation Snatch (1962)
83 min | Comedy, War
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Sanders, Lionel Jeffries, Jocelyn Lane
Votes: 68
21. Kill or Cure (1962)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Mystery
An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 378
22. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff
Votes: 1,920
23. Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon, but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Burl Ives, Jimmy Clitheroe, Terry-Thomas, Graham Stark
Votes: 940
24. Munster, Go Home! (1966)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick
Votes: 3,050
25. Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 883
26. The Sandwich Man (1966)
95 min | Comedy
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins
Votes: 434
27. Top Crack (1967)
100 min | Comedy
A couple of aspiring criminals kidnap a big producer who, to bring the request of the ransom to a good end, is forced to personally direct the operation.
Director: Mario Russo | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Gastone Moschin, Didier Haudepin, Stella Interlenghi
Votes: 21
28. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
60 min | Drama
This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum
Votes: 246
29. The Red Skelton Hour (1951–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy
A comedy-themed variety show, hosted by the popular comedian Red Skelton. It run with no interruption from 1951 to 1971. From 1956 to 1962, the show's head writer was Sherwood Schwartz, who... See full summary »
Stars: Red Skelton, David Rose and His Orchestra, Art Gilmore, Tom Hansen Dancers
Votes: 1,392
30. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The two top Agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H.
Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, John Herman Shaner
Votes: 6,265
31. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 16,680 | Gross: $0.55M
32. You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy
A motley group of soldiers are set loose in swinging London in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 389
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