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Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations.
As the first-person narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, Bertie ranks as one of the most vivid comic creations in popular literature. Bertie's middle name, "Wilberforce", is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name (mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves).
The name 'Wooster' reflects the correct pronunciation of Worcester sauce, suggesting that Wooster is a little 'saucy', and similar to the pronunciation of the name 'Wodehouse', which pronunciation the author references in a memoir as rhyming with 'good house'.
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television.
It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. It starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet ("gentleman's personal gentleman") Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
When Fry and Laurie began the series they were already a popular double act (see Fry and Laurie) due to regular appearances on Channel 4's Friday Night Live and their own show A Bit of Fry & Laurie (BBC, 1987–95).
Wooster may refer to:
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) (/ˌhjuː ˈlɒri/), is an English actor, writer, director, musician, singer, comedian, and author. He first became known as one-half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster in the 1980s and 1990s.
From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild awards. Laurie was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode in House.
Laurie was born in Oxford. The youngest of four children, he has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (née Laidlaw). He notes that his mother "was Presbyterian by character, by mood" and that he was "a frustration to her... she didn't like me". His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.
Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S01 E2:Bertie is In Love
Bertie Wooster on abstinence
Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S02E6 :Wooster with a Wife
Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S01 E1 In court after the boat race
Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S02 E3 :The Con
Hugh Laurie (Bertie Wooster) sings "Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors."
The World of Wooster - Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price
Puttin' on the Ritz - Bertie Wooster
Wooster Meets Jeeves
Jeeves And Wooster — Brinkley Manor (S01E05) [subtitles]
Actors: Fred Astaire (actor), Terry Wogan (actor), Richard Briers (actor), Tim Rice (actor), P.G. Wodehouse (actor), Joanna Lumley (actress), Dennis Price (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Griff Rhys Jones (actor), Alistair McGowan (actor), Ian Carmichael (actor), Raymond Rollett (actor), Adam Barker (producer), Hanif Kureishi (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Fred Astaire (actor), Terry Wogan (actor), Richard Briers (actor), Tim Rice (actor), P.G. Wodehouse (actor), Joanna Lumley (actress), Dennis Price (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Griff Rhys Jones (actor), Alistair McGowan (actor), Ian Carmichael (actor), Raymond Rollett (actor), Adam Barker (producer), Hanif Kureishi (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Martin Jarvis (actor), P.G. Wodehouse (writer), P.G. Wodehouse (writer), Alan Ayckbourn (director), Alan Ayckbourn (writer), Nick Morris (director), Nick Morris (editor), Heath Lamberts (actor), Mary Young Leckie (producer), Jules Pereira (miscellaneous crew), Heather Haldane (producer), James Kall (actor), Austin Shaw (producer), Ian Knauer (actor), Donna Lynne Champlin (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Michael Hordern (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), John Savident (actor), Ballard Berkeley (actor), Jonathan Cecil (actor), Elizabeth Spriggs (actress), Cyril Luckham (actor), Barry Norman (actor), Michael Aldridge (actor), Edward Hibbert (actor), Edward Hibbert (actor), James Grout (actor), James Bree (actor), Rosalyn Landor (actress), Brian Morgan (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Nick DeMaggio (editor), Willie Best (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Lester Matthews (actor), Paul McVey (actor), David Niven (actor), Joseph North (actor), Gene Reynolds (actor), Sol M. Wurtzel (producer), Joseph Hoffman (writer), P.G. Wodehouse (writer), Herschel McCoy (costume designer), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Colin Tapley (actor),
Plot: Erudite manservant Jeeves hopes to keep his frivolous employer Bertie out of new harrowing adventures, but a damsel in distress, carrying half of some mysterious plans, intrudes on their London flat one rainy night. Bertie follows her to country hotel Mooring Manor, prepared to do slapstick battle with crooks posing as Scotland Yard men.
Keywords: based-on-novelBertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) and Jeeves (Stephen Fry) discuss liquor as an aid to proposing marriage.
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Hugh Laurie (Bertie Wooster) sings "Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors." The full score may be found here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2278409
A clip from "Honoria Glossop Turns Up" from Season 4 of Jeeves and Wooster. DISCLAIMER: THIS CLIP DOES NOT BELONG TO ME. ALL COPYRIGHTS BELONG TO THE ORIGINAL OWNERS. THIS VIDEO IS PURELY FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES.
Jeeves returns to London to persuade Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, whereto Bertie subsequently goes to reconcile Angela Travers with Tuppy Glossop, who is growing increasingly suspicious and jealous of his relationship with her. In order to bolster Gussie Fink-Nottle's courage to deliver the prizes and propose to Madeline Bassett, both Bertie and Jeeves spike his orange juice. Jeeves finally sorts out all the fractured relationships with a plan to set off the fire alarm.
An interview with Alistair Cooke.
Join Robert Webb as the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster and Mark Heap as his dutiful valet, Jeeves with Mark Hadfield as Seppings in the critically acclaimed stage play Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=WestEndTheatre http://www.jeevesandwoosterplay.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/JeevesAndWoosterPlay | https://twitter.com/bertiewooster | http://www.youtube.com/user/WestEndTheatre When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse¹s finest characters. Enj...
An interview with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry about Jeeves and Wooster.
We caught up with Robert Webb and Mark Heap who are currently appearing in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Interviewer: Theo Bosanquet Filming: Rosie Bannister Editing: Ben Hewis
Ian Carmichael, OBE (18th June 1920 - 5th February 2010) was an English film, stage, television and radio actor. Among his most famous big screen characters were the well-meaning but incompetent Stanley Windrush in the Boulting Brothers satires Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), as well as the hapless title character in Lucky Jim (1957), an adaptation of the Kingsley Amis' novel also by the Boultings. He also played the archetypal comedy gent, Bertie Wooster, in the BBC series World of Wooster (1965-67), based on the PG Wodehouse Jeeves books. PUBLIC DOMAIN News item.
Stephen Mangan and Matthew MacFadyen talk about transferring television's much loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, to London's West End. The new show. Perfect Nonsense, is directed by Sean Foley and is based on PG Wodehouse's 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters. The characters were memorably played on TV by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the 1990s.
Ian Carmichael & Dennis Price: What would I do without Jeeves? (Sandy Wilson) 1966 My tribute to Ian Carmichael & Dennis Price.
I yearn to be free
I long to escape gravity
Under the light of the stars
I speak Your name and I wait for an answer
There must be more
I've heard You calling
(Chorus)
I believe You'll rescue me
Lift me out of this twilight
Your paradise is in my sight
Lift me into the morning light
I stare into space
somewhere beyond, there's a place
A Kingdom I see in my dreams, where I can run for as far as my eyes can see
I'm making for a distant shore
Have mercy One me
Set me Free...