Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jason IsaacsHarry H Corbett
- Phil DavisWilfrid Brambell
- Roger AllamTom Sloan
- Clare HigginsJoan Littlewood
- Burn GormanRay Galton
- Rory KinnearAlan Simpson
- Sophie HunterMaureen Corbett
- Zoë TapperSheila Steafel
