Alfie Bass in some guise of other. Basically playing the same character, he has hopped chirpily from drama to comedy and into costume pieces and back like an energised sparrow. To all of these, he has added an engaging warmth and sanguinity". Bass appeared as a poacher rescued by Robin in the first episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring Richard Greene. He appeared in "The Army Game" (1957–61), a British TV comedy series, as Private Montague 'Excused Boots' Bisley, and its sequel "Bootsie and Snudge" from 1960–63 (there was also a one series revival in colour in 1974) working at
British comedy films Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working class comedies "Brassed Off" (1996) and "The Full Monty" (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) and "Notting Hill" (1999) the pop-culture referencing "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" ("Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End"), and a movie based on a real life event "The Boat That Rocked" (2009). In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the