
George Robey
Acting
Known For

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Wogan

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
Omnibus

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Henry V

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscrupulous record label boss Mr Gordon (Sam Livesey), who finally gets his comeuppance after one dirty trick too far against his rivals. If the film's love story is perfunctory, the real interest comes with watching performers of the day, from Henry Wood and his orchestra to George Robey and Charles 'the laughing policeman' Penrose laying down their recordings direct to record. And something very like a prototype laser disc makes a crucial appearance too.
Calling the Tune

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
The Pickwick Papers

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Chu Chin Chow

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
They Met in the Dark

A musical comedy of false identities.
Southern Roses

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
A Girl Must Live

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Marry Me
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
The Trojan Brothers

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.
Waltz Time

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
The Temperance Fête
Publicity film for manufacturers and retailers of television equipment. A survey of the programmes transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation during the first six months of operation, November 1936 - May 1937, intended for manufacturers and retailers to show sample types of programmes transmitted.
Television Demonstration Film

A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
Salute John Citizen
Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
Don Quixote
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Men of Yesterday
A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
Birds of a Feather

In China a washerwoman's son uses a magician's lamp to marry a Princess.
One Arabian Night
Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.