George Formby (born George Hoy Booth) was the archetype "cheeky chappie" northern English comedian. Trained originally as a jockey, he often appeared on horseback in his films. Best known for his buck-toothed grin and his ukulele.
Movies6 1944 HD
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...
Genre: War
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.5 1935 HD
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies8.1 1938 HD
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies5.6 1938 HD
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies7.5 1946 HD
George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies5.4 1939 HD
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.5 1941 HD
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...
Genre: Music
Cast: George Formby
Movies5.7 1940 HD
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies4 1934 HD
Musical comedy starring George Formby alongside his wife Beryl in his first ever feature film. George plays John Willie, the shoeshine boy at the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6 1939 HD
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6 1941 HD
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies7 1940 HD
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.6 1945 HD
Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.8 1935 HD
Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from...
Genre:
Cast: George Formby
Movies6 1936 HD
Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage....
Genre: Drama
Cast: George Formby
Movies5.6 1937 HD
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies1 1937 HD
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Genre: Music
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.2 1942 HD
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies6.5 1943 HD
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies8.2 1944 HD
George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: George Formby
Movies1 1974 HD
Compilation of extracts from 'blue' movies from 1900 to the 1940s intercut with clips of popular music and dancing, and excerpts from newsreels and...
Genre:
Cast: Nat King Cole
Movies6 2011 HD
Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: C.P. Lee
Movies8 1994 HD
Wartime sweetheart Vera Lynn presents this documentary which sets archive footage and newsreel film from World War Two to the popular sounds of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Vera Lynn
Movies7 2014 HD
From My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock to God Save the Queen, this is the story of ten records from the 1930s to the present day that have been...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Liza Tarbuck
Movies1 1977 HD
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Frank Muir
Movies5 2007 HD
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Neil McCaul
Movies1 2011 HD
Documentary telling the story of the ENSA performers who kept up the troops' morale during World War II, with contributions from Dame Vera Lynn, Eric...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Julian Rhind-Tutt
S12 E614.5 1992 HD
Wogan is a British television chat show
Genre: Talk
Cast: Terry Wogan
