The Entertainer

Stills (5)

Kitchen sink. Decline of an old-time vaudeville performer, set in present day Britain.

Cast & credits

Cast

Archie Rice Laurence Olivier
Phoebe Rice Brenda De Banzie
Billy Rice Roger Livesey
Jean Rice Joan Plowright
Frank Rice Alan Bates
Graham Daniel Massey
Mick Rice Albert Finney
Tina Lapford Shirley Anne Field
Mrs Ada Lapford Thora Hird
soubrette Miriam Karlin
Harold Hubbard Geoffrey Toone
film star McDonald Hobley
interviewer Anthony Oliver
Charlie Klein Max Bacon
Eddie Trimmer George Doonan
Cobber Carson James Culliford
Brother Bill Gilbert Davis
columnist Charles Gray
. Gwen Nelson
Morecambe mother Hope Jackman
[Wilfrid Lapford] Tony Longridge
[Gloria] Jo Linden
[sister at Alhambra] Angie Dean
[sister at Alhambra] Debbie Dean
[Britannia] Mercia Turner
[other nude] Vicky Travers
[trampoline act] Beryl & Bobo
[Scots singer] Herman Welles
[Scots singer] Constance Welles
[rock 'n' roll trio] The Clippers
[stage door keeper] James Thornhill
[girl] Shirli Scott-james
[teddy boy] Tony Selby
[Morecambe father] A. Thompson
[Morecambe daughter] Brenda Ralph
[theatre manager] Nigel Davenport

Credits

Direction

Directed by Tony Richardson
Assistant Director Peter Yates
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Roy Millichip
[Assistant Director (3rd)] Mike Stephenson
[Continuity] Maggie Unsworth

Production

A Woodfall Production Woodfall Film Productions
[Production Company] Holly Productions
Distributed by British Lion Films
[Distributed] in association with Bryanston Films
Produced by Harry Saltzman
Associate Producer John Croydon
Production Manager R.L.M. Davidson
[Production Secretary] Pat Moon
Made at Shepperton Studios

Casting

[Casting Director] Maude Spector

Writing

Screenplay by John Osborne
Screenplay by Nigel Kneale
Adapted from the play by John Osborne

Photography

Director of Photography Oswald Morris
Camera Operator Denys Coop
[2nd Camera Operator] Ginger Gemmell
[Focus Puller] Ronnie Maasz
[Clapper Loader] Michael Rutter

Stills

[Stills] Bert Cann

Editing

Film Editor Alan Osbiston
[Assembly Cutter] Joan Morduch
[Assistant Editor] Peter Barber

Design

Art Director Ralph Brinton
Assistant Art Director Edward Marshall
[Draughtsman] Tony Woollard
[Scenic Artist] Basil Mannin
[Scenic Artist] Fred Mannin

Costumes

Costume Designer Jocelyn Rickards
Wardrobe Barbara Gillett

Make-up

Make-up Tony Sforzini
Hairdresser Bill Griffiths

Music

Music Composed and Conducted by John Addison
Associate Music Director Ronnie Cass

Choreography

Laurence Olivier's Numbers Staged by Honor Blair

Sound

sd Peter Handford
sd Bob Jones
[Sound Camera Operator] Des Edwards
Sound System Westrex Recording System
[Boom Operator] Ken Ritchie
[Boom Assistant] Fred Peters
[Sound Maintenance] Norman Bolland
Sound Editor Chris Greenham
[Assistant Dubbing Editor] Jeanne Henderson

Publicity

[Publicity Director] Gerry Lewis

Unknown

activity not known Michael Holden