Drama TV Movie
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.
Directed by
Michael Samuels
Written by
Brian Fillis
Jason Isaacs
Harry H Corbett
Rory Kinnear
Alan Simpson
Burn Gorman
Ray Galton
Roger Allam
Tom Sloan
Phil Davis
Wilfrid Brambell
Zoë Tapper
Sheila Steafel
Clare Higgins
Joan Littlewood
Sophie Hunter
Maureen Corbett
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