The Curse of Steptoe

In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.

Cast

Jason Isaacs

as Harry H Corbett

Phil Davis

as Wilfrid Brambell

Roger Allam

as Tom Sloan

Clare Higgins

as Joan Littlewood

Burn Gorman

as Ray Galton

Rory Kinnear

as Alan Simpson

Sophie Hunter

as Maureen Corbett

Zoë Tapper

as Sheila Steafel

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