• Mar 18, 2008
  • 67 min
  • Full-HD

The Curse of Steptoe (2008)

In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.

Category
Country
United Kingdom
Companies
BBC

Jason Isaacs

Harry H Corbett

Phil Davis

Wilfrid Brambell

Roger Allam

Tom Sloan

Clare Higgins

Joan Littlewood

Burn Gorman

Ray Galton

Rory Kinnear

Alan Simpson

Sophie Hunter

Maureen Corbett

Zoë Tapper

Sheila Steafel

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