Reply With QuoteLord Charles
I loved Claude in My Learned Friend
Lord Charles
Robert Morley wasn't an upper-class twit IMO
Does Hugh Grant figure into this?
My favourite twit has to be David Hutcheson... Hoppy Hopwell in Blimp, but all over the place as officer types from the thirties to the seventies. Had a very good monocle technique.....
Poor old Robert Coote always seemed to get the twit role, though perhaps more old buffer than twit?
I appreciate the vote for Robert Coote - does anybody get to the end of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN without wanting to give him a good slap ?(Harbottle @ Dec 20 2005, 12:52 AM)
Poor old Robert Coote always seemed to get the twit role, though perhaps more old buffer than twit?
But I have to run with silly-ass Claude Hulbert as possibly the greatest upper class twit !
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Agreed and he is quite wonderful in My Learned Friend(smudge @ Dec 20 2005, 08:32 PM)
I appreciate the vote for Robert Coote - does anybody get to the end of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN without wanting to give him a good slap ?
But I have to run with silly-ass Claude Hulbert as possibly the greatest upper class twit !
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Which is where we came in(Harbottle @ Dec 21 2005, 01:09 PM)
Agreed and he is quite wonderful in My Learned Friend
Never heard of him(TheLurkerKIng @ Dec 16 2005, 04:28 P)
Does Hugh Grant figure into this?
Or, as the saying goes....(mysteriesofedgarwallace @ Dec 21 2005, 04:38 PM)
Never heard of him
Hugh-Who !!!
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I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!(samkydd @ Dec 15 2005, 07:06 PM)
This is another one of him when he'd got older and put a bit more weight on.
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Who has said otherwise?(Marky
I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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Marky B
Nah - I loved the concept of EDUCATING ARCHIE - a vent on the radio....?
Wonderful story of the late Irene Handl ; she 'stooged' Archie at some point. Apparently Peter Brough took it all very seriously and would talk off mike as Archie in any cast/crew discussions about the show.
Once, sitting over a cuppa with Irene, Brough was getting the jitters that people were seeing his lips move. He duly asked if she'd ever noticed anything,
"No dear - " she replied innocently, "Only when Archie's talking..."
This probably loses something in the translation, but apparently Irene's timing was quite withering.....
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Yup - the best in the business, and certainly better than Shari Lewis (c/w Lamb Chop) whose mouth was more animated than Brian Clough!(Marky B @ Dec 21 2005, 07:53 PM)
I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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Marky B
Best upper-class twit -
Guy Middleton ("Night Boat to Dublin" and bascially anything he is in)
and
David Tree ("Pygmalion" and "Major Barbara").
I've always liked Allan Cuthbertson who always seemed to play a Brigadier-General, or a Rear-Admiral, or some-such.
Ah, but he was never really a 'twit' was he ? Generally an authority figure ; one of those 'chaps' (can I still use that word ?) who represented Britishness. Funny that, him being from Mr. Brent's adopted homeland and all....(mysteriesofedgarwallace @ Jan 2 2006, 12:20 AM)
I've always liked Allan Cuthbertson who always seemed to play a Brigadier-General, or a Rear-Admiral, or some-such.
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What about Jonathan Cecil, who has been successfully playing upper-class twits in films and TV for the past 40 years and he really is an upper-class twit, or at least upper-class, being the son of Lord David Cecil.
I was just about to comment that JC is mainly a telly twit, but a quick scan of IMDb informed me that he's done more films than I remembered. JC's a classic twit, in the mould of Derek Nimmo, whom he replaced in ALL GAS AND GAITERS IIRC....(Hugo @ Jan 2 2006, 11:29 AM)
What about Jonathan Cecil, who has been successfully playing upper-class twits in films and TV for the past 40 years and he really is an upper-class twit, or at least upper-class, being the son of Lord David Cecil.
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