Ray Brooks

Ray Brooks

Ray Brooks is a British actor famous for his role as the narrator in the classic children's cartoon series Mr Benn, for the films The Knack...And How To Get It, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150AD and Cathy Come Home, and for the TV series Big Deal and Growing Pains. In recent years he played Joe Macer, the husband and murderer of Albert Square stalwart Pauline Fowler, in the BBC's long running soap opera EastEnders and has written several books, including his autobiography.

  • Title: Ray Brooks
  • Popularity: 4.69
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1939-04-20
  • Place of Birth: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
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Ray Brooks Movies

  • 1972
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    The Flesh and Blood Show
    The Flesh and Blood Show

    5.6 1972 HD

    Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Jenny Hanley

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  • 1965
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    The Knack... and How to Get It
    The Knack... and How to Get It

    5.817 1965 HD

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rita Tushingham

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  • 1966
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    Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
    Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

    6.1 1966 HD

    Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Peter Cushing

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  • 1972
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    Carry On Abroad
    Carry On Abroad

    6.4 1972 HD

    A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sid James

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  • 1974
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    House of Whipcord
    House of Whipcord

    6.1 1974 HD

    Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Barbara Markham

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  • 1973
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    Tiffany Jones
    Tiffany Jones

    4.4 1973 HD

    Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Anouska Hempel

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  • 1959
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    Captured
    Captured

    4.6 1959 HD

    Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1970
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    The Last Grenade
    The Last Grenade

    5.8 1970 HD

    British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Stanley Baker

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  • 1962
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    Some People
    Some People

    7 1962 HD

    Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1962
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    H.M.S. Defiant
    H.M.S. Defiant

    6.5 1962 HD

    Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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  • 1966
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    Cathy Come Home
    Cathy Come Home

    7.318 1966 HD

    A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Carol White

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  • 1973
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    Assassin
    Assassin

    5.2 1973 HD

    When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian Hendry

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  • 1972
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    Baffled!
    Baffled!

    4.8 1972 HD

    Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Leonard Nimoy

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  • 1972
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    6.1 1972 HD

    An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Fiona Fullerton

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  • 1985
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    The Pickwick Papers
    The Pickwick Papers

    1 1985 HD

    The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nigel Stock

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  • 1978
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    A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
    A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts

    1 1978 HD

    Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1990
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    The World of Eddie Weary
    The World of Eddie Weary

    1 1990 HD

    Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1962
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    Play It Cool
    Play It Cool

    5.9 1962 HD

    A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Billy Fury

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  • 1971
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    Office Party
    Office Party

    1 1971 HD

    Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Barkworth

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  • 1982
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    Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!
    Some of Your Bits Ain't Nice!

    1 1982 HD

    An educational film about proper hygiene.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 2022
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    Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill
    Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill

    1 2022 HD

    A double dose of the doctor! Two classic Dr. Who adventures return in new 4K restorations. Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks’ Invasion...

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    Cast: Peter Cushing

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  • 1983
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    Office Romances
    Office Romances

    1 1983 HD

    Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Judy Parfitt

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  • 1971
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    The Cherry Orchard
    The Cherry Orchard

    1 1971 HD

    Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate...

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    Cast: Jenny Agutter

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  • 2023
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    The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
    The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

    6 2023 HD

    Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Charlotte Rampling

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  • 1973
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    The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow
    The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow

    1 1973 HD

    A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he guess someone whose only credits are two episodes of...

    Genre:

    Cast: Bill Fraser

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  • 2024
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    EastEnders
    EastEnders

    3.985 2024 HD

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast:

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  • 1967
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    Gideon's Way
    Gideon's Way

    6.75 1967 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Gregson

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  • 1969
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    The Avengers
    The Avengers

    7.682 1969 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Patrick Macnee

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  • 1989
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    Running Wild
    Running Wild

    1 1989 HD

    Sitcom about male mid-life crises. Max Wild longs to return to his 1950s Teddy Boy youth - but after living the life again, soon wants to return home.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1993
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    Growing Pains
    Growing Pains

    1 1993 HD

    Family drama series about a middle aged couple (Ray Brooks and Sharon Duce) who, with their own three children in their teenage years, decide to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 2005
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    Mr. Benn
    Mr. Benn

    7.182 2005 HD

    Popular British children's animation series. Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of...

    Genre: Kids

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1992
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    Rumpole of the Bailey
    Rumpole of the Bailey

    7.067 1992 HD

    Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leo McKern

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  • 1999
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    Doomwatch
    Doomwatch

    5.667 1999 HD

    Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Paul

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  • 1986
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    Big Deal
    Big Deal

    6.667 1986 HD

    The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1973
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    Black and Blue
    Black and Blue

    6 1973 HD

    Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month
    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1970
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    King Rollo
    King Rollo

    6 1970 HD

    Animated 1980s TV from the Beeb, about a playful medieval king and his entourage.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ray Brooks

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  • 1973
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    Thirty-Minute Theatre
    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    3.8 1973 HD

    Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1990
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    Open Air
    Open Air

    5.5 1990 HD

    Open Air was BBC1's flagship programme for their new daytime service which began on 27 October 1986. It discussed all aspects of television and also...

    Genre:

    Cast: Gloria Hunniford

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  • 1985
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    The Pickwick Papers
    The Pickwick Papers

    5.5 1985 HD

    Mr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through the England of stage-coaches and coaching inns.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Clive Swift

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  • 1992
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    Wogan
    Wogan

    4.5 1992 HD

    Wogan is a British television chat show

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Terry Wogan

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  • 2005
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    Dalgliesh
    Dalgliesh

    6.9 2005 HD

    Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Roy Marsden

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  • 1983
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    Death of an Expert Witness
    Death of an Expert Witness

    5 1983 HD

    When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Roy Marsden

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  • 1976
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    The Expert
    The Expert

    10 1976 HD

    The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Marius Goring

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  • 1994
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    The Paul Daniels Magic Show
    The Paul Daniels Magic Show

    7.5 1994 HD

    A British magic show and variety show that aired on BBC1 from 9 June 1979 to 18 June 1994. Daniels' assistant throughout the series was Debbie McGee,...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Paul Daniels

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today
    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1970
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    Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
    Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

    6.821 1970 HD

    Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Annette Andre

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  • 1970
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    The Wednesday Play
    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1970 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: George Webb

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