Lionel Blair

Acting

Lionel Blair

Born 1928-12-12 · Montreal, Canada

Lionel Blair was an English actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. Making regular appearances as a dancer and entertainer on British television throughout the late 1960s, the 1970s and early 1980s, he also presented the quiz programme Name That Tune, and was a team captain on Give Us a Clue.

Acting credits

A Hard Day's Night poster
7.3

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

A Hard Day's Night

1964

Absolute Beginners poster
5.5

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

Absolute Beginners

1986

The World of Suzie Wong poster
6.6

A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.

The World of Suzie Wong

1960

Mission: Monte Carlo poster
5.9

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.

Mission: Monte Carlo

1974

The Main Attraction poster
4.0

An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.

The Main Attraction

1962

Run For Your Wife poster
4.4

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

Run For Your Wife

2012

An Audience with Elton John poster
9.0

Elton John entertains a celebrity studio audience, answering questions and singing songs with his guests.

An Audience with Elton John

1997

The Plank poster
7.4

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.

The Plank

1979

Play It Cool poster
6.1

A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.

Play It Cool

1962

Maroc 7 poster
4.9

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

Maroc 7

1967

The Limping Man poster
5.4

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.

The Limping Man

1953

The Beauty Jungle poster
5.3

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

The Beauty Jungle

1964

Jazz Boat poster
6.4

An electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when he's sought to participate in a jewel heist.

Jazz Boat

1960

Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits poster
NR

A compilation of sketches taken from the television series. Characters include Sid Snot, Angry Of Mayfair, Marcel Wave and Brother Lee Love. Guests include: Terry Wogan, Michael Aspel, Cliff Richard, David Essex and Bernard Manning.

Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits

2004

The Cool Mikado poster
9.0

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.

The Cool Mikado

1963

Larry Grayson: Shut That Door! poster
2.0

Documentary about the life of Larry Grayson, the English comedian and television presenter who was best known in the 1970s and early '80s.

Larry Grayson: Shut That Door!

2018

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8.5

A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

The Unforgettable Harry Secombe

2010