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The Curse of Steptoe
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Cast
- Jason Isaacs as Harry H Corbett
- Phil Davis as Wilfrid Brambell
- Roger Allam as Tom Sloan
- Clare Higgins as Joan Littlewood
- Burn Gorman as Ray Galton
- Rory Kinnear as Alan Simpson
- Sophie Hunter as Maureen Corbett
- Zoë Tapper as Sheila Steafel
Details
- Director
- Michael Samuels
- Released
- March 18, 2008
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Studio
- BBC
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 5.8 / 10 from 8 votes
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