The best William Hartnell’s comedy movies

William Hartnell

William Hartnell

08/01/1908- 23/04/1975
Today we present the best William Hartnell’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best William Hartnell’s movies.
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And the Same to You

And the Same to You
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1960
  • Character: Walter 'Wally' Burton
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/07/1959
  • Character: Will Buckley
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

Private's Progress

Private's Progress
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 17/02/1956
  • Character: Sgt. Sutton
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

Carry On Sergeant

Carry On Sergeant
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 15/08/1958
  • Character: Sergeant Grimshawe
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1963
  • Character: Major Fowler
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers
6.9/10
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...

Josephine and Men

Josephine and Men
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1955
  • Character: Detective Sgt. Parsons
1955 British comedy starring Glynis Johns.

The Night We Dropped a Clanger

The Night We Dropped a Clanger
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 10/10/1959
  • Character: Sgt. Bright
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.

The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1942
  • Character: German Officer at Station
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

Will Any Gentleman...?

Will Any Gentleman...?
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1953
  • Character: Detective Inspector Martin
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.

Tons of Trouble

Tons of Trouble
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/04/1956
  • Character: Bert
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

The Guv'nor

The Guv'nor
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1935
  • Character: Car Salesman
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.

The Peterville Diamond

The Peterville Diamond
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/01/1943
  • Character: Joseph (as Bill Hartnell)
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

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