John Junkin
John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English actor and scriptwriter who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy. In 1960, Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop and played the lead in the original production of Sparrers Can't Sing. A few years later, he joined the Royal Court Theatre company, and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television. In 2006, he passed away from lung cancer in Aylesbury.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6102 |
| Birthday | 1930-01-29 |
| Place of Birth | Ealing, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1964
A Hard Day's Night
7.324/732
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent jour...
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A Hard Day's Night
2001
Chica de Río
5.69/21
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...
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Chica de Río
1967
The Plank
6.197/33
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of...
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The Plank
1983
Down at the Hydro
0/0
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
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Down at the Hydro
1978
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
4.556/9
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off...
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
1969
Journey to the Unknown
0/0
TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (e...
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Journey to the Unknown
1970
Simon Simon
6.667/3
A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of...
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Simon Simon
2004
The Football Factory
6.393/290
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fig...
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The Football Factory
2002
When Steptoe Met Son
4/3
The difficult off-screen relationship between actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen....
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When Steptoe Met Son
1966
The Sandwich Man
6.5/8
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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The Sandwich Man
1981
The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box
0/0
Old school comics join Kenny Everett for some old school comedy. Stand up routines are interspersed with sketches and stand up routines from Kenny Ev...
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The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box
1960
Doctor in Love
5.472/18
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1966
The Wrong Box
6.438/64
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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The Wrong Box
1963
Heavens Above!
6.571/28
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioner...
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Heavens Above!
1978
Scully's New Year's Eve
9/2
Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.
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Scully's New Year's Eve
1990
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
5.105/19
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns de...
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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
1964
The Pumpkin Eater
6.7/53
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...
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The Pumpkin Eater
1964
Hot Enough for June
5.74/25
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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Hot Enough for June
1979
That Summer!
4.875/8
A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel cham...
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That Summer!
1978
Brass Target
5.513/39
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or...
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Brass Target
1967
How I Won the War
5.579/38
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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How I Won the War
1963
Sparrows Can't Sing
5.34/25
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up wi...
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Sparrows Can't Sing
1976
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
4.556/18
Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to tea...
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
5.045/22
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy...
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1988
A Handful of Dust
6.107/42
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...
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A Handful of Dust
1977
Wombling Free
9.667/3
The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nic...
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Wombling Free
1963
The Break
6.938/8
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
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The Break
1966
Doctor in Clover
5.75/18
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Doctor in Clover
1966
Kaleidoscope
5.286/14
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plat...
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Kaleidoscope
1981
Dancing Country
0/0
The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is young...
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Dancing Country
1963
The Wrong Arm of the Law
6.66/47
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as p...
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
1962
The Primitives
8.5/2
A group of night club entertainers supplement their income by being international jewel thieves
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The Primitives
1962
The Brain
5.781/16
After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in or...
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The Brain
1974
Slater's Day
0/0
Freddy Slater, a public relations man, has the day to end all days.
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