Harold Goodwin
Harold Goodwin (22 October 1917 - 3 June 2004) was an English actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England. Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years. He appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s and 1960s, usually playing 'flat cap' wearing working class characters from Northern England or low ranks in the military. He had significant parts in the war films The Dam Busters (playing Guy Gibson's batman), Bridge on the River Kwai and The Longest Day. He can also be seen in films such as The Ladykillers, Sea of Sand, Angels One Five and The Cruel Sea (in which he was the ASDIC operator). He also made hundreds of British TV appearances including a notable role in All Creatures Great and Small and was a 'staple' of the popular 1980s sitcom, That's My Boy. His last major television appearance was playing the part of Joss Shackleton, father to Vera Duckworth, in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street in the early 1990s.
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Operation Cupid
When three bumbling conmen win a dating agency in a rigged card game they think their luck has finally changed. When they take charge of the business though, they discover that the con is on them and that the agency is in debt, the furnishings are all on credit and the staff haven't been paid!...Watch Movie
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The Traitors
The British B spy thriller takes its cue from the style made popular by producer Mark Hellinger's THE NAKED CITY, a policier centering most of its action on the streets of London. Chisel-jawed British actor Patrick Lane leads a team of British and American spies in hunting down Communists in...Watch Movie
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The Gay Dog
Jim Gay is a northern miner with an obsession for greyhound racing. Having seen Raving Beauty romp to first place at short odds because everybody had backed it, Jim decides to increase its odds for the big race by pretending that Raving Beauty is ill and unlikely to finish. But keeping this a...Watch Movie
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