Larry Dann
Larry Dann (born 4 May 1941 in London, England) is a British film and television actor.
His acting career began by a fluke, with "a chance knock at the door looking for kids to work in films." He made his film debut age five in Adam and Evelyn (1946) with Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger, and worked as an extra before training at the Corona Stage Academy. As a youngster he had a cameo playing a schoolboy in Carry On Teacher (1959), and appeared in two films with Sir Norman Wisdom, Trouble in Store (1953) and The Bulldog Breed (1960). He later rejoined the famous Carry On series of films for Carry On Behind (1975), Carry On England (1976) and Carry On Emmannuelle (1978). His other film roles included What a Crazy World (1963), All Neat in Black Stockings (1968), The Body Stealers (1969), Before Winter Comes, (1969), Our Miss Fred (1972) Ghost Story (1974) and The Bunker (1981).
From 1984 to 1992, he played Sergeant Alec Peters in 227 episodes of the ITV police series The Bill. In 2020, Dann shared his memories of his early work on The Bill for the book Witness Statements: Making The Bill (Series 1-3). A follow-up volume, Witness Statements: Making The Bill (1988) was published in 2022, also featuring memories from Dann about his time as Sgt. Peters during the earliest half-hour episodes of the programme.
Dann joined the Theatre Workshop in 1962 and appeared in numerous plays directed by Joan Littlewood including Oh, What a Lovely War! in London, Paris and New York.
In 2023, Dann wrote his autobiography Oh, What A Lovely Memoir, published by Devonfire Books.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5739 |
| Birthday | 1941-05-04 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1976
Carry On England
4.5/46
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardm...
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Carry On England
1970
Whirlpool
5.671/35
Tulia, a young model, is invited to a photographer's country home for what purports to be a quiet weekend retreat - but soon appears to be anything bu...
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Whirlpool
1978
Carry On Emmannuelle
3.896/53
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the...
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Carry On Emmannuelle
1974
Ghost Story
4.929/14
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclu...
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Ghost Story
1984
The Hope and the Glory
0/0
Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a r...
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The Hope and the Glory
1975
Carry On Behind
5.5/59
Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site whe...
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Carry On Behind
1969
Before Winter Comes
6/14
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British...
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Before Winter Comes
1970
Sovereign's Company
7.5/2
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an of...
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Sovereign's Company
1970
Calculated Nightmare
6/2
Two business executives are trapped for the night on a deserted office floor by a disgruntled employee who has hacked the elevator system.
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Calculated Nightmare
1987
Playing Away
6/6
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South Lond...
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Playing Away
1954
The Million Pound Note
6.985/85
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...
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The Million Pound Note
1981
The Bunker
6.283/60
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...
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The Bunker
1963
What a Crazy World
6.429/7
Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn and a dream of hitting the big time in the music business....
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What a Crazy World
1963
West 11
6.9/14
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a tu...
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West 11
1980
Kate: The Good Neighbour
9/1
Kate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
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Kate: The Good Neighbour
1960
Linda
7/2
A boy and girl find true love for each other and escape from boredom and crime.
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Linda
1953
Trouble in Store
6.12/25
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser ma...
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Trouble in Store
1960
The Bulldog Breed
6.1/19
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, h...
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The Bulldog Breed
1959
Carry On Teacher
6.4/58
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed wi...
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Carry On Teacher
1977
That's Carry On!
5.8/25
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
1998
What's a Carry On?
7.667/6
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...
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What's a Carry On?
2009
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
0/0
An all-new 72 minute featurette including interviews with Director/Producer Stephen Weeks, Actors Larry Dann and Murray Melvin, British Horror Icon Ba...
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Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
1972
Our Miss Fred
6.1/10
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France...
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Our Miss Fred
1963
West 11
6.9/14
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a tu...
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