Peter Richardson
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Peter Richardson (born 15 October 1951) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer, best known for The Comic Strip Presents... television series. He is also a long time comedy partner with Nigel Planer.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.614 |
Birthday | 1951-10-15 |
Place of Birth | Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK |
Also Known As |
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
7/1
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a...
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1992
Carry On Columbus
3.8/40
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
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Carry On Columbus
1985
The Supergrass
6.2/11
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girl...
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The Supergrass
1988
The Yob
0/0
An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football...
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The Yob
1990
Les Dogs
0/0
Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and b...
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Les Dogs
1993
Demonella
0/0
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...
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Demonella
1984
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
0/0
Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and Foy...
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The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
1983
Summer School
0/0
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...
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Summer School
1988
Funseekers
0/0
Tourists arrive in Ibiza for the 'funseekers' package holiday. Jamie is upset when the annoying Tony moves into his room. He gets his revenge when he...
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Funseekers
1993
Jealousy
0/0
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...
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Jealousy
1982
Five Go Mad in Dorset
0/0
In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Ti...
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Five Go Mad in Dorset
1998
Four Men in a Car
0/0
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve...
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Four Men in a Car
1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
0/0
Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Braz...
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Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
2000
Four Men in a Plane
0/0
Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toile...
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Four Men in a Plane
1983
The Beat Generation
0/0
In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal exi...
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The Beat Generation
1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
0/0
On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm...
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Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1984
Dirty Movie
0/0
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the...
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Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
0/0
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former p...
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Susie
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
0/0
A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.
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Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Slags
0/0
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, th...
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Slags
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
0/0
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the po...
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Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Private Enterprise
0/0
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he...
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Private Enterprise
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
0/0
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
Oxford
0/0
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his...
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Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
0/0
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argen...
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1992
The Crying Game
0/0
Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becom...
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The Crying Game
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
0/0
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from...
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Spaghetti Hoops
1992
Red Nose of Courage
0/0
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after...
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Red Nose of Courage
1992
Wild Turkey
0/0
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing...
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Wild Turkey
1993
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
0/0
When the lead star of 'The Gourmet Detective' mystery show is mysteriously bumped off. A bunch of various detectives from television shows from the se...
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Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1993
Queen of the Wild Frontier
0/0
Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by Fion...
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Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
0/0
Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At th...
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
2012
Five Go to Rehab
0/0
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These...
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Five Go to Rehab
2005
Sex Actually
6.5/2
Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house,...
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Sex Actually
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
7.8/4
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
2016
Red Top
5.3/3
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and...
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Red Top
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
0/0
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of t...
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30 Years of Comic Strip
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
6/1
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
1983
War
0/0
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after wi...
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War
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
8.2/4
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and...
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Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1987
Eat the Rich
6/29
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
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Eat the Rich
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
7.8/4
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
1981
The Comic Strip
0/0
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
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The Comic Strip
1988
The Strike
7/3
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company...
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The Strike
1983
Bad News
8.7/6
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journa...
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Bad News
1988
More Bad News
9.8/4
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits...
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More Bad News
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
0/0
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
7.2/17
A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woma...
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The Line, the Cross & the Curve
1991
The Pope Must Diet
4.9/20
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and...
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The Pope Must Diet
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
0/0
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
1988
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
0/0
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation office...
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
2019
Completely Bad News
0/0
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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