The Curse of Steptoe

Top 8 Billed Cast

Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs

Harry H Corbett

Phil Davis
Phil Davis

Wilfrid Brambell

Roger Allam
Roger Allam

Tom Sloan

Clare Higgins
Clare Higgins

Joan Littlewood

Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman

Ray Galton

Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear

Alan Simpson

Sophie Hunter
Sophie Hunter

Maureen Corbett

Zoë Tapper
Zoë Tapper

Sheila Steafel

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    The Curse of Steptoe

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    In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.

  • Release Date

    2008-03-18

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    6.667

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    3.3 starts
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