Shaun Williamson In 2009, Williamson toured the UK playing habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher in a stage version of the classic TV comedy "Porridge". The script had been newly written by the series' co-authors, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. In 2012, he toured in a stage revival of the Ealing Studios film "The Ladykillers". He also played the roles of Baron Bomburst and Lord Scrumptious in the UK tour production of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". In 2007, he appeared in the British film "Daylight Robbery" where he played the role of a police chief. He also appeared, alongside Stephen Merchant, in
Baron Munchausen 1979 Russian television film "The Very Same Munchhausen", directed by Mark Zakharov from Grigori Gorin's screenplay, produced and released by Mosfilm. The film, a satirical commentary on Soviet censorship and social mores, imagines an ostracized Baron attempting to prove the truth of his adventures in a disbelieving and conformity-driven world. In 1988, Terry Gilliam adapted the Raspe stories into a lavish Hollywood film, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", with the British stage actor and director John Neville in the lead. Roger Ebert, in his review of the film, described Neville's Baron as a man who "seems sensible and matter-of-fact, as