Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Lenny Henry | ... | Josephus the Genie | |
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John Gabriel | ... | Wizard |
Alan Cumming | ... | Bernard Bottle | |
Rowan Atkinson | ... | Charles Pinkworth | |
Denis Lill | ... | Frank Kepple (as Dennis Lill) | |
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Beaux Bryant | ... | Nurse |
Kevin Allen | ... | Kevin | |
Andrée Bernard | ... | Judy | |
Melvyn Bragg | ... | Melvyn Bragg | |
Janet Henfrey | ... | Miss Purse | |
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Marcia Ashton | ... | Miss Temple |
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Sheila Latimer | ... | Bernard's Mother |
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Sally Geoghegan | ... | Waitress |
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Angela Clarke | ... | Carrie (as Angie Clarke) |
Bob Geldof | ... | Bob Geldof |
An art dealer befriends a genie whom he frees from a lamp which he has been imprisoned with by an evil wizard for 2000 years for the accidental death of the evil wizard's daughter when the art dealer is fired by his greedy and corrupt boss. Written by Daniel Williamson
It has everything you need in a Christmas film- laughs, tears, a good message, and every Christmas song known to man! Me and my sister still love it and watch it every year at Christmas. It doesn't seem to have been shown on British TV since we recorded back in the early nineties. They really need to show it again so they can introduce a whole new legion of fans to Bernard Bottle. The video is really rare, I paid £40 for it, and now I discover there is a DVD. Bum! But its still amazing. I have seen it so much that when I now hear 'Lonely This Christmas' I expect a bauble to smash after the words "and an unlit Christmas tree" ! "he's Mr success, he's higher than high, he's sweeter than the sweetest cherry pie"