Albert Finney
Uncle Silas
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Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The figure he portrays is Rabelaisian and robust, a ...
- H. E. Bates
- 1939
My Uncle Silas: With Albert Finney, Sue Johnston, Joe Prospero, Julian Holloway. Five stories by H.E. Bates about a roguish English countryman.
- (160)
- 2001-11-26
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- 140
Silas prepares for an upcoming flower show in which his rival, an old soldier named Walter, is also competing. Silas becomes a proud grandfather. He meets Ellen, a professional cook. Edward takes a shine to Ellen's daughter, Sandy. A boisterous uncle (5 time Oscar-nominee Albert Finney) takes care of his 10-year-old nephew for the summer in ...
My Uncle Silas (TV Series 2001–2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies ...
Season 1. On the morning of his son's wedding, Silas finds himself in charge of his 10-year-old nephew Edward. Silas and Edward take a job painting rooms for a frugal and temperate innkeeper. Silas tries to show the landlord's wife that there's more to life than work. Caught poaching, Silas strikes a deal with the landowner not to prosecute in ...
- Tom Clegg, Philip Saville
- 2
- Albert Finney, Sue Johnston, Joe Prospero
- January 1, 2011
Sun, Oct 28, 2001. The Wedding:- In the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, Ned, a middle-class schoolboy, whose parents are working abroad, spends his Summer holiday in the Bedfordshire countryside with his great-uncle Silas, who is sixty but very hearty and attractive to women still. He does odd jobs and poaches on the sly, to the horror of ...
On the morning of his son's wedding Silas finds himself in charge of his 10-year-old nephew Edward. Silas and Edward take a job painting rooms for a frugal and temperate innkeeper. Silas tries to show the landlord's wife that there's more to life than work. Caught poaching, Silas strikes a deal with the landowner not to prosecute in exchange ...
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