The Curse of Steptoe
18/03/2008
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.
Drama
TV Movie
Movie Information
Jason Isaacs
as Harry H Corbett
Phil Davis
as Wilfrid Brambell
Roger Allam
as Tom Sloan
Clare Higgins
as Joan Littlewood
Burn Gorman
as Ray Galton
Rory Kinnear
as Alan Simpson
Sophie Hunter
as Maureen Corbett
Zoë Tapper
as Sheila Steafel
