The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
Overview
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.
Cast
Jason Isaacs
Harry H Corbett
Phil Davis
Wilfrid Brambell
Roger Allam
Tom Sloan
Clare Higgins
Joan Littlewood
Burn Gorman
Ray Galton
Rory Kinnear
Alan Simpson
Sophie Hunter
Maureen Corbett
Zoë Tapper
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