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TV Series

Series Name:    Frankie Howerd - Rather You Than Me (Legends Of Comedy) Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 2008 Country:   UK Language: English Genre: Biography, Drama Rating: 6.0  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  2 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	David Walliams as Frankie Howerd
	Rafe Spall as Dennis Heymer
	Dilys Laye as Edith Howerd
	David Reed as Peter Cook

Notes

In the 1950s Frankie Howerd, the famous radio and film comedian, meets a young waiter Dennis Heymer, who, like himself, is a closet homosexual. Their relationship blossoms into a partnership, rather than a purely sexual one, and Dennis becomes Frankie's manager. By the early 1960s however things are looking bleak for Frankie. He has lost popularity with mainstream audiences and suffered a nervous breakdown. He is full of self hatred about his appearance - he wears a wig - and his homosexuality, puts huge stress on his relationship with Dennis. Matters are not helped by the death of Frankie's mother Edith. However, Frankie is able to reinvent himself as a satirical comedian, with a gig at Peter Cook's Establishment Club and his fortunes soar, with successful television comedies and a well-publicized appearance at the Oxford Union.

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Disc

Legends Of Comedy - BBC 2 Entertain - UK (2009)

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