Film
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
United Kingdom- Director
- Walter Forde
- Year
- 1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Top cast
Arthur Askey
Arthur Linden
Richard Murdoch
'Stinker' Burton
Graham Moffatt
Albert Brown
Moore Marriott
Jerry
J.H. Roberts
Dean of Bowgate
Felix Aylmer
The Proctor
Wally Patch
The Buller
Phyllis Calvert
Betty Forsythe
Jeanne De Casalis
Aunt Lucy
Elliott Mason
Dame Luckton
Donald Calthrop
Guide
Anthony Dawson
Student
Peggy Evans
Girl
Roddy Hughes
Butler
Mike Johnson
Cabby
Laurence Kitchin
Reginald Ingleby Cox
Stuart Latham
Student
Derrick Penley
Directed by
Walter Forde
Produced by
Edward Black