Porridge

Porridge

93 mins | Crime, Comedy | Aug. 12, 1979

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

Porridge

93 mins | Crime, Comedy | Aug. 12, 1979

Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Black Lion Films, Witzend Productions
Original title Porridge
Directors Dick Clement
Writers Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

Cast

Ronnie Barker

as Norman Stanley Fletcher

Richard Beckinsale

as Lennie Godber

Fulton Mackay

as Mackay

Brian Wilde

as Barrowclough

Peter Vaughan

as Grouty

Julian Holloway

as Bainbridge

Geoffrey Bayldon

as Treadaway - Governor

Barrie Rutter

as Oakes

Daniel Peacock

as Rudge

Sam Kelly

as Warren

Ken Jones

as Ives

Gorden Kaye

as Dines

Philip Locke

as Banyard

Oliver Smith

as McMillan

Karl Howman

as Urquhart

Andrew Dunford

as Armstrong

Steve Steen

as Wellings

Ivan Steward

as Simpkins

Derek James

as Small

Tony Osoba

as McLaren

Zoot Money

as Lotterby

Rod Culbertson

as Callaghan

Derek Deadman

as Cooper

Robert Putt

as Atkinson

Allan Warren

as Whalley

Stewart Harwood

as Whittaker

John Barrett

as Hedley

Paul Barber

as Morgan

Sebastian Abineri

as Hayward

John Dair

as Sampson

Barry James

as Delilah

Jackie Pallo Jnr

as Jacko

Robert Lee

as Tinkler

Charles Pemberton

as Miller

Colin Rix

as Lassiter

Paul McDowell

as Collinson

Paul Luty

as Chalky

Duncan Preston

as Weatherman

Elizabeth Knight

as Sheila

Nicholas McArdle

as PC Townsend

Jean Campbell-Dallas

as Old Lady

Bill Kerry

as Old Man

Bunny May

as Alf