John Bluthal
John Bluthal (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1928 – 15 November 2018) was a comic actor best known for the role of Frank Pickle in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley and for his work with Spike Milligan in the Q series. He also appeared in several films including the Carry On movies, The Pink Panther movies, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Fifth Element and Hail, Caesar! He was born in Poland in 1929 and emigrated with his family to Australia when he was a child. In the early 60s, Bluthal moved to the UK to follow his acting career and returned to Australia in later years. He passed away on 15th November, 2018 at the age of 89.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5299 |
| Birthday | 1929-08-12 |
| Place of Birth | Malopolskie, Poland |
| Also Known As |
1997
The Fifth Element
7.566/11610
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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The Fifth Element
1967
Follow That Camel
5.877/53
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the...
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Follow That Camel
1964
Carry On Spying
6.386/66
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bi...
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Carry On Spying
1967
Casino Royale
5.256/815
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...
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Casino Royale
1975
The Great McGonagall
5.6/5
In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who f...
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The Great McGonagall
1965
Help!
6.847/346
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off)....
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Help!
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!
2004
Love's Brother
6.385/13
Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy bet...
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Love's Brother
1968
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
6.786/14
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's...
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1969
A Talent for Loving
5.4/5
This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler...
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A Talent for Loving
1984
Squaring the Circle
5/2
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
1976
Escape to Entebbe
0/0
A Pakistani reporter interviews Idi Amin.
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Escape to Entebbe
1976
Meriel the Ghost Girl
8/1
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?
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Meriel the Ghost Girl
1968
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
6.688/8
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over th...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1992
Stan and George's New Life
10/1
Stan is a mild-mannered, gentle, middle-aged man who still lives with his overbearing parents. One day, acting on a suggestion by his father, he lands...
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Stan and George's New Life
1973
The Three Musketeers
6.763/350
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Ara...
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The Three Musketeers
1974
The Four Musketeers
6.442/214
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
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The Four Musketeers
1983
The Return of Captain Invincible
6.132/38
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Austral...
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The Return of Captain Invincible
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
1977
Spaghetti Two-Step
0/0
A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.
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Spaghetti Two-Step
1973
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
5.7/6
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
1996
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
4/4
Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of wonde...
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Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
2000
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns
4.75/12
Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. Whil...
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns
1966
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
6.071/120
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1968
The Brahmin Widow
0/0
A British soldier returns to India to find the woman he fell in love wit
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The Brahmin Widow
1963
Doctor in Distress
6.313/16
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and som...
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Doctor in Distress
2016
Hail, Caesar!
5.942/3987
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Hail, Caesar!
1968
The Visitors
0/0
good Samaritan who gives a stranded family a lift off the road, finds his life gets complicated when they move in on him.
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The Visitors
1998
RPM
3.3/10
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
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RPM
1967
A Ghost of a Chance
6.667/3
Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
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A Ghost of a Chance
1981
Alison's Birthday
5.241/29
During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three...
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Alison's Birthday
1976
Fantasm
4.542/24
Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female se...
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Fantasm
1972
Nightmare
9/1
An edited version of the Pathfinders TV drama set in the Second World War, telling the story of the fictitious Royal Air Force 192 Pathfinder squadron...
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Nightmare
1980
Touch and Go
10/0
Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.
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Touch and Go
1974
The Flying Sorcerer
7/1
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The Flying Sorcerer
1975
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
9/1
Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.
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Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
5.7/2
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri...
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
1973
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
4.842/19
Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1998
Dark City
7.336/3168
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...
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Dark City
1995
Leapin' Leprechauns
3.857/7
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.
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Leapin' Leprechauns
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
6.785/673
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
1970
Doctor in Trouble
5/11
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh...
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Doctor in Trouble
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
2017
Jungle
6.641/2115
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Thei...
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Jungle
1980
Franklin River Journey
0/0
Follows amateur botanist Antonius Moscal's raft journey down the Franklin River (Tasmania, Australia).
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Franklin River Journey
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
0/0
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showi...
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A Pinch of Snuff
1979
Design for Living
4/3
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love wit...
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Design for Living
1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.411/473
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car...
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
1974
The Over-Amorous Artist
4.333/6
Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work while he looks after the home and concentrates on his p...
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The Over-Amorous Artist
1996
Spike
10/1
Spike personally tells the story of his life from India, World War II to The Goons and his Q series
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Spike
1964
This Is My Street
5.9/10
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
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This Is My Street
1986
Labyrinth
7.275/2715
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbroth...
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Labyrinth
1964
Father Came Too!
5.885/13
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up them...
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Father Came Too!
1983
Superman III
5.507/1865
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yield...
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Superman III
2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
0/0
Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look back at their favorite Dibley moments, and for the first...
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The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
1978
The Irishman
9/1
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of th...
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The Irishman
1974
The Cafeteria
0/0
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father
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The Cafeteria
1976
The Joke
0/0
Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.
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The Joke
1978
Renoir, My Father
0/0
A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.
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Renoir, My Father
1971
Carry On Henry
6.095/63
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and re...
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Carry On Henry
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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On Location: The Carry Ons
1998
What's a Carry On?
7.667/6
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...
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What's a Carry On?
1963
The Mouse on the Moon
6.274/31
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new s...
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The Mouse on the Moon
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6.5/2
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
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