Personal Info
Birth date
1914-04-29 (111 Years)
Day of death
1999-10-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
Also known as
Deryck Bower Guyler
Deryck Guyler
Biography
Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, and brought up on the other side of the River Mersey in Liverpool, Lancashire, where his father was a jeweller. He attended Liverpool College and originally planned a career in the church. During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and then (on 4 May 1942) the BBC's Drama and Repertory company in Manchester.
Filmography
No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.The Sooty Show
6.1
Overview:
The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.Adam Adamant Lives!
7.5
Overview:
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.Sykes and a...
6
Overview:
A black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. It was written by Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan. It was the first television series to feature both Sykes and Jacques, who later starred in 'Sykes and a Big, Big Show' and 'Sykes'.Please Sir!
6.75
Overview:
Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.Sykes
6.4
Overview:
Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.Look at Life
8
Overview:
Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.It's a Square World
NYR
Overview:
It's a Square World was a groundbreaking British comedy show starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC. It ran from 1960 till 1964. The series led Bentine to a BAFTA award in 1962 for Light Entertainment and a compilation show, screened by the BBC in 1963, won that year's Press Prize at the Rose d'Or Festival in Montreux. The shows were devised and written by Michael Bentine and John Law. Some sketches were released on an LP.Best Of Enemies
8.3
Overview:
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'The Dick Emery Show
8
Overview:
A British sketch comedy show broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981, with frequent performers including Pat Coombs, Deryck Guyler, Roy Kinnear, Joan Sims and Josephine Tewson.That's My Boy!
NYR
Overview:
A half-hour sitcom, the series starred radio and theatre star Jimmy Clitheroe. Using his four-foot three-inch stature and mischievous persona to comic effect, causing further mischief and mayhem for his fictional family. It ran for one series of seven episodes in 1963.A Hard Day's Night
7.327
Overview:
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.The Wrong Arm of the Law
6.5
Overview:
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.Carry On Doctor
6.5
Overview:
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos.The Big Job
6.7
Overview:
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.Paul McCartney & Wings: The Bruce McMouse Show
NYR
Overview:
Concert footage from Wings' 1972/73 European tour combine with the animated antics of a family of mice living beneath the venue's stage.No Sex Please: We're British
5.1
Overview:
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the banks' head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the porn—without letting their boss, the local police and David's mother in on what is happening.The Plank
7.4
Overview:
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
5.7
Overview:
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.Smokescreen
7.2
Overview:
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.A Day to Remember
7.1
Overview:
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.The Fast Lady
5.526
Overview:
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
6.4
Overview:
Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.Nurse on Wheels
5.8
Overview:
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.Acting
TBABest Of Enemies (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Fred (8 Episodes) as Narrator
1981Stainless Steel and the Star Spies as Vicar
1979The Plank as Milkman
1979Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack as Narrator (voice)
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Commissionaire
1975One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Harris
1974Aladdin as Sergeant Ying Tong
1974Barry McKenzie Holds His Own as Police Constable
1973No Sex Please: We're British as Park Keeper
1972Sykes (68 Episodes) as PC Corky Turnbull
1972Paul McCartney & Wings: The Bruce McMouse Show as Bruce McMouse (voice)
1971Please Sir! as Norman Potter
1969Two off the Cuff as Unknown
1969Look at Life: Saturday Special as Self - Commentator
1968Please Sir! (62 Episodes) as Norman Potter
1968The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee's Pianola as Traffic Warden
1967Carry On Doctor as Mr. Hardcastle
1966All Square (14 Episodes) as Unknown
1966Adam Adamant Lives! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Big Job as Police Sergeant
1964A Hard Day's Night as Police Inspector
1964Smokescreen as Station Master
1963That's My Boy! (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1963The Dick Emery Show (161 Episodes) as Unknown
1963The Wrong Arm of the Law as Police Constable at Scotland Yard (uncredited)
1963Nurse on Wheels as Driving Examiner
1962The Fast Lady as Dr Blake
1962It's Trad, Dad! as Narrator
1961It's a Square World (56 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Sykes and a... (67 Episodes) as Unknown
1959No Hiding Place (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Look at Life (1 Episode) as Narrator
1955Snowdrift at Bleath Gill as Himself - Narrator
1955The Sooty Show (3 Episodes) as Self
1954Mad About Men as Editor
1953A Day to Remember as Angry Man in Ferry Queue
1946The Shop at Sly Corner as John Elliot