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    My Uncle Silas

    2001 · Drama · 1 season

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  1. 7.3 /10. 160. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 0:58. 1 Video. 12 Photos. Comedy Drama Family. Five stories by H.E. Bates about a roguish English countryman. Stars. Albert Finney. Sue Johnston. Joe Prospero. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. S1-2. +3. Add to Watchlist. 3 User reviews. Episodes 9. Top-rated. Sun, Nov 4, 2001. S1.E2.

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    • 2001-11-26
    • Comedy, Drama, Family
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  2. 4.03. 159 ratings18 reviews. In his preface to ‘My Uncle Silas’, Bates says that the character of Silas and a number of the stories in this volume are firmly based on real events in the life of Joseph Betts, husband of the author’s great aunt Mary Ann. Bates characterizes Silas as "the original Adam, rich and lusty and robust" and "a ...

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  3. Filter by Rating: 10/10. Marvelously charming, bittersweet comedy. tickets-1 15 February 2003. In a time of space invaders and dashing new technologies, this kind of television takes you back to a quieter and simpler existence of life in the old countryside when adult innocence often included a childish approach.

  4. READ REVIEW. MY UNCLE SILAS. by H. E. Bates ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10, 1984. Published in England in 1939, but never before in the US, these 14 small tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator's great-uncle Silas--a rural oldster of the earthy, boozy, incorrigible school.

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  5. 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
  6. Albert Finney (Uncle Silas)Sue Johnston (Mrs. Betts)Joe Prospero (Edward)Julian Holloway (Uncle George)Jennifer Piercey (Aunt Cora)Janet Henfrey (Aunt Tibby)Lisa Kay (Georgina)Andrew Greenough ...

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  8. Reviews 0. Discussions 1. Go to Discussions. Videos 0. Backdrops 5. Posters 3. In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though 60 years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womanizer, drinker, and a poacher.

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