Ray Brooks
Ray Brooks was a British actor famous for his role as the narrator in the classic children's cartoon series Mr Benn, for the films The Knack...And How To Get It, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150AD and Cathy Come Home, and for the TV series Big Deal and Growing Pains. In later years he played Joe Macer, the husband and murderer of Albert Square stalwart Pauline Fowler, in the BBC's long running soap opera EastEnders and has wrote several books, including his autobiography. He died at the age of 86 on 9th August 2025 following a short illness. He had been living with dementia in his final years.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6616 |
| Birthday | 1939-04-20 |
| Place of Birth | Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1972
The Flesh and Blood Show
5.658/38
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
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The Flesh and Blood Show
1965
The Knack... and How to Get It
5.954/76
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up wi...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
1966
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
6.152/102
Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devas...
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Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
1972
Carry On Abroad
6.287/87
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished...
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Carry On Abroad
1970
The Last Grenade
5.667/6
Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.
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The Last Grenade
1974
House of Whipcord
5.927/55
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for...
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House of Whipcord
1983
Office Romances
0/0
Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a successf...
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Office Romances
1971
The Cherry Orchard
7/1
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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The Cherry Orchard
1982
Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!
10/1
An educational film about proper hygiene.
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Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!
1973
Tiffany Jones
4.417/12
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily...
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Tiffany Jones
1962
Some People
7.5/6
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
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Some People
1959
Captured
4.188/8
Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British P...
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Captured
1966
Cathy Come Home
7.08/25
Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emoti...
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Cathy Come Home
1973
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
0/0
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coro...
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The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
6.534/59
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...
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H.M.S. Defiant
1973
Assassin
5.75/8
When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to...
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Assassin
1973
Baffled!
5.609/23
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 14...
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Baffled!
1972
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
6.319/47
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1978
A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
8/1
Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way.
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A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
1990
The World of Eddie Weary
7/1
Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV s...
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The World of Eddie Weary
1962
Play It Cool
6.125/7
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 s...
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Play It Cool
1971
Office Party
0/0
Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
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Office Party
1977
That's Carry On!
5.792/24
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
2001
On Location: The Carry Ons
0/0
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry On' films.
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