Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House
Release: 1954-03-23
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 6.5
Comedy
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
The Rank Organisation
Cast
Donald Houston
as Taffy Evans
Donald Sinden
as Tony Benskin
Amy Veness
as Grandma Cooper (uncredited)
Geoffrey Sumner
as Forensic Lecturer (uncredited)
Eliot Makeham
as Elderly Examiner
Mona Washbourne
as Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
Carol White
as Girl (uncredited)
Mark Dignam
as Examiner at Microscope (uncredited)
Douglas Ives
as Alfie Sprogett (uncredited)
Bruce Seton
as Police Driver (uncredited)
Kay Kendall
as Miss Isobel Minster
George Coulouris
as Briggs
Nicholas Phipps
as Magistrate
Harry Locke
as Jessup
Muriel Pavlow
as Nurse Joy Gibson
Martin Boddey
as Demonstrator at Pedal Machine
Joan Sims
as Nurse Rigor Mortis
Shirley Eaton
as Milly Groaker
Brian Oulton
as Medical Equipment Salesman
Lisa Gastoni
as Jane (uncredited)
Joan Ingram
as Examiner (uncredited)
Cyril Chamberlain
as Policeman
George Benson
as Lecturer on Drains
Fred Griffiths
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Gudrun Ure
as May
Joan Hickson
as Mrs. Groaker
Richard Wattis
as Medical Book Salesman (uncredited)
Jean Taylor Smith
as Sister Virtue
Kenneth More
as Richard Grimsdyke
Ernest Clark
as Dr. Parrish
Suzanne Cloutier
as Stella
Wyndham Goldie
as Examiner (uncredited)
Dirk Bogarde
as Simon Sparrow
James Robertson Justice
as Sir Lancelot Spratt
Geoffrey Keen
as Dean
Noel Purcell
as Padre (uncredited)
