Wilfrid Brambell

A member in good standing of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in the 1920s, Irish-born Wilfred Brambell began appearing on the London stage in the early 1930s, making his cinematic bow in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. His latter-day fame rests on two roles essayed in the 1960s. On the popular British sitcom Steptoe and Son, the precursor to Norman Lear's Sanford and Son, Brambell played the crabby junk dealer who served as the model for Redd Foxx's Fred Sanford. And in the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964), Brambell gummed up the plot proceedings as Paul McCartney's "clean old man" grandfather. One of Wilfrid Brambell's last roles was as Alice B. Toklas in the iconoclastic Swedish "biopic" The Adventures of Picasso (1980).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	A Hard Day's Night - 50th Anniversary	Actor	—	2014
88%	The Conqueror Worm (Witchfinder General)	Master Loach	—	2000
No Score Yet	Sword of the Valiant	Porter	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Terence Davies Trilogy	Robert Tucker(old age)	—	1984
No Score Yet	Island of Adventure	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Picasso	Alice B. Toklas	—	1978
No Score Yet	Holiday on the Buses	Bert Thompson	—	1973
No Score Yet	Steptoe and Son	Actor	—	1973
No Score Yet	Steptoe and Son	Albert Steptoe	—	1973
No Score Yet	Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano)	Malipiere	—	1969
No Score Yet	Alice In Wonderland	White Rabbit	—	1966
98%	A Hard Day's Night	Grandfather	—	1964
No Score Yet	Crooks in Cloisters	Phineas	—	1964
No Score Yet	The Three Lives of Thomasina	Willie Bannock	—	1964
No Score Yet	Go Kart Go	Junkman	—	1964
No Score Yet	The Small World of Sammy Lee	Harry	—	1963
No Score Yet	In Search of the Castaways	Bill Gaye	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Boys	Robert Brewer	—	1962
No Score Yet	Flame in the Streets	Mr. Palmer	—	1962
No Score Yet	Serious Charge	Verger	—	1959
No Score Yet	Captured	Actor	—	1959

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Steptoe and Son	Steptoe

Grandfather: [Looking straight at a woman's large bosom] I bet you're a great swimmer.
Grandfather: I bet you're a great swimmer.