Brothers in Law

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GB, 1956 d Roy Boulting, p John Boulting

"In the 1950s casting directors in the movie business never used to consider revue actors. At that time I was mainly doing revues. In 1954 I was given a part in the play Simon and Laura, which later became a film. The Boulting brothers sent for me and offered me two films Privates Progress and Brothers in Law. When I expressed my view to them, that it was because I was now in a play and not just doing revues that they wanted to cast me, they said this was nonsense that it was because they had seen me in a sketch in the Globe Revue playing a man undressing on a packed beach preparing to go for a swim.

"They set my career off in the movies. When you were in theatre in the early 1950's the thing that made you a national name was to be in a film as most people saw little of the West End Theatre Productions."

Ian Carmichael Actor, Brothers in Law