Roger Elliott

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles

#1BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Constable

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#2Yes Minister

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.3 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

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#3Shoestring

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Fairground Spieler

7.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

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#4Open All Hours

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Mr Bristow

7.9 / 10
Comedy

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

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#5King Lear

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Second Servant

10.0 / 10
Drama

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

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#6Henry IV Part 2

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Peter Bullcalf

8.5 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.

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