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Alfie Bass

Actor

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Also Known As

Alfred Bass

Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

April 08, 1921

Died

July 15, 1987

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

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Durable, diminutive, immensely endearing character player of British and international films. Bass made his film debut in 1945's "Johnny Frenchman" and soon became a valuable fixture in often comical supporting roles, typically as feisty, working-class, often Cockney blokes. He was very fine as one of a group of soldiers keeping the news of imminent death from a hospitalized comrade in t...

Filmography

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High Rise Donkey (1980)

Moonraker (1979)

Revenge of The Pink Panther (1978)

Up the Junction (1968)

A Challenge for Robin Hood (1968)

The Fixer (1968)

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Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Garlic, My Boy, Garlic!

Bespoke Overcoat, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) An Old Man Is An Old Man

Biography

Durable, diminutive, immensely endearing character player of British and international films. Bass made his film debut in 1945's "Johnny Frenchman" and soon became a valuable fixture in often comical supporting roles, typically as feisty, working-class, often Cockney blokes. He was very fine as one of a group of soldiers keeping the news of imminent death from a hospitalized comrade in the touching "The Hasty Heart" (1949), but Bass is perhaps most fondly remembered as Shorty, a delightfully larcenous member of "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951). He was busiest in films in the 1950s and 60s in films ranging from "Svengali" (1954) to "Help!" (1965, as the doorman), from an entry in the endless knockabout "carry on" series, "Carry on Admiral" (1957) to "Alfie" (1968, not in the title role), but his feature credits extend into the early 80s with the likes of "Moonraker" (1979).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

High Rise Donkey (1980)

Moonraker (1979)

Revenge of The Pink Panther (1978)

Up the Junction (1968)

A Challenge for Robin Hood (1968)

The Fixer (1968)

The Fearless Vampire Killers; or, Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)

Shagal, an innkeeper

Carnaby, M. D. (1967)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

The Millionairess (1961)

Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1958)

No Road Back (1957)

HELL DRIVERS (1957)

Carry On, Admiral (1957)

Cash on Delivery (1956)

A Kid for Two Farthings (1956)

Child in the House (1956)

Svengali (1955)

The Square Ring (1955)

The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Blackout (1954)

Make Me an Offer (1954)

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)

Four Against Fate (1952)

The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)

The Hasty Heart (1950)

Vice Versa (1948)

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Life Events

1945

Film debut in "Johnny Frenchman"

Photo Collections

The Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski Sketches

Here are a few sketches by Roman Polanski, drawn for his film The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in my Neck (1967), released by MGM.

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Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Garlic, My Boy, Garlic! Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) is frozen solid on arrival at a Transylvanian Inn, but is aroused along with aide Alfred (Director Roman Polanski) when they see tell-tale signs, in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Bespoke Overcoat, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) An Old Man Is An Old Man London tailor Morrie (David Kossoff) with the ghost of friend Fender (Alfie Bass), whom he just buried with the overcoat he’d made for him before he was taken ill, who explains his contempt for Ranking (Alan Tilvern), for whom he worked as a clerk, Jack Clayton directing, in The Bespoke Overcoat, 1956.

Bespoke Overcoat, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Good Tailor Opening director Jack Clayton’s adaptation of the play by Wolf Mankowitz, suggested by a Gogol story, the 1956 Academy Award winner for Best Short Subject, David Kossoff as underpaid London jewish tailor Morrie, from The Bespoke Overcoat, co-starring Alfie Bass.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) A Quick One... Timid Alfred (Director Roman Polanski) is sorting through his tools when Sarah (Sharon Tate) sets his mind reeling with what he believes must be a proposition, in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Give Her Back To Me! Famous sequence in which Sarah (Sharon Tate) is abducted in spectacular fashion by von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne) while Alfred (director Roman Polanski) and Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) panic in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Far Bigger Holland (Alec Guinness) and Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) are not so much lying-in-wait as recruiting, enticing thieves Shorty (Alfie Bass) and Lackery (Sidney James) into their band in The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Lavender Hill Mob, The - (Original Trailer) An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold in the comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) starring Alec Guinness.

Alfie - (U.S. Trailer) What's it all about? Ask Alfie (1966), Michael Caine in one of his greatest roles as a love-em-and-leave-em lothario.

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A -- (Original Trailer) A madcap musical set in ancient Rome starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford and silent era comic Buster Keaton in a cameo appearance.

Revenge of the Pink Panther - (Original Trailer) Peter Sellars gave his last performance as Inspector Clouseau in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).

Fearless Vampire Killers, The - (Original Trailer) A bumbling professor tracks vampires in the wilds of Eastern Europe in Roman Polanski's horror-comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967).

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