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- Hay worked with Gainsborough Pictures from 1935 to 1940, during which time he developed a partnership with Graham Moffatt, playing an insolent overweight schoolboy, and Moore Marriott as a toothless old man.
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He appeared in several films alongside fellow comedians Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The three funny men came up with a routine that saw Marriott and Moffatt play straight men (ie, comic foils) alongside Hay’s farcical schoolmaster amongst other characters.
Hay worked with Gainsborough Pictures from 1935 to 1940, during which time he developed a partnership with Graham Moffatt, playing an insolent overweight schoolboy, and Moore Marriott as a toothless old man.
Cinema career. His first film with Will Hay was Where There's a Will (1936) in which he plays an office boy. In his next film with Hay, Windbag the Sailor (1936), he is joined by Moore Marriott and his character has become 'Albert'.
Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hay's commercially most successful (although it grossed £500,000 at the box office – equal to about £34,000,000 at 2020 value), it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences.
Apr 25, 2020 · Oh, Mr Porter! is basically a three hander with Hay and comedians Moore Marriott (1885-1949 heart disease) and Graham Moffatt (1919-64 heart failure). These three comedians were partnered together in several Hay led movies.
Nov 12, 2012 · It’s funny stuff – as Hulbert burbles and Hay loses his knickerbockers – but it’s more akin to the scene in Oh Mr Porter! (1937) where Hay and his old comedy cohorts Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt dangle on the sails of a spooky windmill than it is to Hay’s ‘new direction’.
Nov 25, 2010 · Will Hay (William Porter), Moore Marriott (Jeremiah Harbottle) and Graham Moffatt (Albert) work brilliantly together and all the other actors are equally wonderful.
