Ray Cooney
Raymond George Alfred Cooney (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there. Cooney began to... Read full bio →
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Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertently re-frozen and brought back to life.
Not Now, Comrade
Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not least London stripper Barbara, with whom he decides to take refuge!
Nothing Barred
Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public
The Night We Got the Bird
Cecil's family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only after he dies and his salesman Bertie marries his widow Julie, that the truth comes out through Cecil re-appearing as a parrot, puzzlingly given as a wedding gift.
The Hand
A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.
My Brother Jonathan
Medical student Jonathan Dakers sacrifices his career to fund brother Harold's education. Harold and Edie fall in love but Harold dies in WWI leaving Edie pregnant. After Edie's death in childbirth, Jonathan raises their son Tony.