The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
Actors:
Philip Davis (actor),
Jason Isaacs (actor),
James Keast (costume designer),
William Diver (editor),
Roger Allam (actor),
Penny Dyer (miscellaneous crew),
Nuala Alen-Buckley (miscellaneous crew),
Clare Higgins (actress),
Richard Knight (miscellaneous crew),
Burn Gorman (actor),
Rory Kinnear (actor),
John Yorke (producer),
Michael Samuels (director),
Judy Gayton (miscellaneous crew),
Zoë Tapper (actress),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: 1960s, actor, adultery, bbc, closeted-homosexual, cottaging, gay-couple, homosexual, sitcom, stage-actor
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,