Ernest C. Jennings

Acting
1902-01-09
Marylebone, London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Secret Army

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Old Man

7.8 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2BBC2 Play of the Week

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Peasant

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Londoners

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Old Man

8.8 / 10
Drama

London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, ranging from Soho to the Law Courts, Wembley to the docks. Of the twelve episodes, eleven are believed to be lost.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4Steptoe and Son

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Pensioner

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5Ace of Wands

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Pie Stall Man (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureFamily

Ace of Wands is a fantasy-based British children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a Tarot card describes the principal character, called "Tarot" who combined stage magic with supernatural powers. Tarot has a pet Owl named Ozymandias, played by Fred Owl. The series ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes and a third season of twenty, with fourteen story arcs, in a similar manner to early Doctor Who. Many, if not all, of the first 26 episodes are believed to have been wiped, although the final season is intact.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6The Good Life

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Clerk of the Court

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Tales from the Crypt

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Blind Man

6.8 / 10
Horror

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8Six Dates with Barker

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Average Couple

7.4 / 10
Comedy

Six Dates with Barker is a 1971 ITV series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. Three of the stories were further developed: The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was made into a serial as part of the 1976 sketch comedy programme The Two Ronnies; The Odd Job Man was adapted as a feature film, titled The Odd Job; and The Removals Person became Barker's final programme Clarence.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Objects of Affection

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Albert

8.0 / 10
Drama

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10Kizzy

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Uncle Jess

7.0 / 10
DramaFamily

Kizzy is a six-part 1976 BBC television miniseries based on Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi. It starred Vanessa Furst as orphan traveller (or Romani girl) called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11The Naked Civil Servant

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Court Attendant

6.7 / 10
DramaComedyTV Movie

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12Brief Encounter

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13The Reckoning

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Dad (John Joe)

7.5 / 10
Drama

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14The Peddler

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Man in Waiting Room

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15Whirlpool

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as -

5.7 / 10
DramaMysteryHorror

Tulia, a young model, is invited to a photographer's country home for what purports to be a quiet weekend retreat - but soon appears to be anything but.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Rolling Home

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Albert

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details