Ronnie Barker

ACTOR, WRITER, SOUNDTRACK

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Ronnie Barker's remarkable versatility as a performer can be traced back to his time in repertory theatre, where he was able to play a wide range of roles and develop his talent for accents, voices and verbal dexterity. It was during this time that he met Glenn Melvyn, who taught him how to stammer (something he would later use to great effect in the sitcom Open All Hours (1976)). Melvyn also gave Ronnie his break into television by offering him a role in I'm Not Bothered (1956). During the 1960s, Ronnie became well-established in radio, providing multiple voices for "The Navy Lark" and working with comedy great Jon Pertwee. He also became a regular face on television, appearing in The Frost Report (1966) (perhaps most memorably in a sketch about Britain's class system, with John Cleese and Ronnie Corbett) and playing character roles on Sfântul (1962) and Răzbunătorii (1961).In 1971, Ronnie teamed up with Ronnie Corbett again, this time for a BBC sketch series called The Two Ronnies (1971). This series proved enormously popular, continuing until the late 1980s. In addition to "The Two Ronnies", Barker starred on the popular BBC sitcoms Porridge (1974) (as a cockney prisoner) and Open All Hours (1976) (as a stammering Northern shopkeeper). In fact, only Leonard Rossiter could be said to have rivaled him during this time for the crown of British television's most popular comedy star. In 1982, he revived silent comedy in By the Sea (1982). Despite his extrovert performances on television, Barker remained a quiet, retiring individual in his personal life, much preferring to spend time with his family rather than mix with the celebrity crowd. This humility, combined with memories of his extraordinary abilities, meant that he continued to be greatly respected by his fellow professionals. In a BAFTA special shown by the BBC in 2004, stars as diverse as Gene Wilder, Peter Kay and Peter Hall paid tribute to his contribution to comedy and British television in general. Ronnie Barker died on 3 October 2005 after suffering from heart problems. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Ronnie Barker on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Ronnie Barker movies released per year from 2001 till 2020.

Top Genres

Ronnie Barker works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 59% of Ronnie Barker movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Ronnie Barker worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Ronnie Barker has worked on is 7.2.

7.2 / 10

Ronnie Barker's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Crime
Porridge (1974)

The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.

8.3/1045 min

Available in 2 platform(s).