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Arthur Blake

1929 – 2001 · Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Active 1965–1993
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The Cherry Picker

The Cherry Picker

1974 ★ 4.0
as Dan Haydock

Millionaire's son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) just wants to live a life free from responsibility (and work) and the film opens with him taking part in a mass sleep-in outside Windsor Castle. His father is not happy with this and hires Nancy (Lulu) to dupe him into leaving his hippy friends and entering the world of work, which she does, bringing him into contact with her own elderly father Dobson played by Wilfrid Hyde-White and a variety of other English eccentrics all played by well-known comic actors. But while doing so Nancy falls for James and they get married. The marriage is quickly on the rocks, though, due to the couple's very different attitudes to life, and James embarks on a series of affairs with, among others, his father's mistress Maureen (Fiona Curzon) who becomes his surrogate wife, Lulu's character having vanished from the film by that stage. A new-look Lulu returns at the end to take James back and renew her efforts to get him to adopt the life of duty and responsibility his father -- and she -- wanted for him.

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Filmography

19 credits
1990s 1 credit
1993
Unnatural Causes as Maurice Seton
Movie ★ 6.8
1980s 5 credits
1989
Campion as Museum Curator
TV ★ 6.1
1984
TV ★ 5.7
1982
TV ★ 6.8
1981
Bergerac as Mike Beavis
TV ★ 6.7
1970s 12 credits
1978
Movie ★ 9.0
1978
Born and Bred as Photographer
TV ★ 6.0
1978
Strangers as Tom Stoneman
TV ★ 7.3
1977
TV ★ 7.5
1976
For Services to Myself as Shop Assistant
Movie
1975
TV ★ 7.0
1974
The Cherry Picker as Dan Haydock
Movie ★ 6.3
1973
Heil Caesar as Decius Brutus
TV ★ 9.0
1972
The Edwardians as Dr Pollard
TV ★ 6.3
1971
Girl Stroke Boy as Ticket Collector (uncredited)
Movie ★ 5.6
1971
Movie ★ 7.0
1971
Bel Ami as Bishop
TV ★ 10.0
1960s 1 credit
1965
Movie ★ 5.6