P.G. Wodehouse Filmography

Occupation:: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author

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Piccadilly Jim

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Austin Pendleton, Tom Wilkinson, Allison Janney, Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's efforts to obtain a peerage with his Read More

2005
The World of Wooster [TV Series]

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Eleanor Summerfield, Fabia Drake, Derek Nimmo

Synopsis: The BBC comedy series World of Wooster was based on P.G. Wodehouse's whimsical short stories about upper-class twit Bertie Wooster (Ian Carmichael) and his ever-resourceful (and infinitely more intelligent) butler Jeeves (Dennis Price). Most of the stories dealt with Bertie's desultory romances Read More

1965
The Girl on the Boat

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the Read More

1962
Tip on a Dead Jockey

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala, Martin Gabel, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the war deaths of comrades in failed missions. Living in Spain, Tredman is despondent after losing all his money betting on a horse which ends up throwing its jockey and killing Read More

1957
Anything Goes

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on Cole Porter's hit 1934 Broadway musical. The 1956 bears little relationship plotwise to its predecessors, except for the fact that most of the story takes place aboard a luxury Read More

1956
A Damsel in Distress

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though it's obvious that leading lady Joan Fontaine can't dance a step. Written by P. G. Wodehouse, Damsel in Distress casts Astaire as Jerry, an American entertainer appearing in Read More

1937
Dizzy Dames

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her daughter comes for a surprise visit. It seems her daughter had no idea what her mother did for a living. When an aspiring writer asks for the daughter's hand, conflict Read More

1936
Thank You, Jeeves

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Arthur Treacher, Virginia Field, David Niven, Lester Matthews, Colin Tapley

Synopsis: In this romantic mystery, based on the beloved characters of P.G. Wodehouse, the ever-impeccable, unflappable butler Jeeves does all he can to serve his clumsy young master. This time Jeeves falsely identifies evil spies as government agents. Unfortunately these bogus G-men have come to steal Read More

1936
Anything Goes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional songs by Hoagy Carmichael, among many many others. Set on a luxury liner, the story gets under way when Moonface Mullins (Charlie Ruggles), Public Enemy No. 13, slips on Read More

1936
Piccadilly Jim

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore, Billie Burke

Synopsis: British humorist P. G. Wodehouse wrote the story upon which Piccadilly Jim was based. Frank Morgan and Robert Montgomery play a well-to-do father and son, who find themselves rivals in love. The object of their affection is Madge Evans, who likes them both but favors the son. Everything could have Read More

1936
Leave It to Me

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Gene Gerrard, Olive Borden, Molly Lamont, George Gee

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, based on a popular British play, a young man poses as a poet to protect his auntie's jewels from thieves. His ruse is almost revealed by a female poet, who is really a thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
Summer Lightning

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Winifred Shotter, Dorothy Bouchier, Ralph Lynn, Horace Hodges, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: In this frothy farce, the personal secretary to a boorish lord finds himself in romantic trouble after he falls in love with his employer's niece. Because he cannot afford to marry her, he decides to steal his master's prize porker. Later he "finds" the missing pig and returns it in hopes of Read More

1933
Brother Alfred

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: Musical comedy star Gene Gerard breezes his inimitable way through the 1932 British programmer Brother Alfred. Thrown over by fiancee Molly Lamont, Gerard pursues the girl to Monte Carlo, hoping to win her back. In desperation, Gerard poses as his nonexistent twin brother Alfred, and in this guise Read More

1932
The Man in Possession

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house under writ, but when he falls for the lady of the house (Irene Purcell), the boy decides to serve as her butler to keep up her family's appearances. Throughout the film Read More

1931
Those Three French Girls

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cliff Edwards, Yola D'Avril, Sandra Ravel

Synopsis: Those Three French Girls are Charmaine (Fifi D'Orsay), Dian (Yola D'Avril) and Madelon (Sandra Ravel), each a real oo-la-la in her own right. All three get mixed up in the affairs of stuffy Englishman Larry (Reginald Denny) and the even stuffier Earl of Ippleton (George Grossmith). Meanwhile Read More

1930
A Gentleman of Leisure

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Jack Holt, Sigrid Holmquist, Alec B. Francis, Adele Farrington

Synopsis: This farcical melodrama starring Jack Holt was a pleasant program feature. Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with Read More

1923