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Call Me Genius

Year:

1962

Duration:

USA:105 min

Genres:

Comedy

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

Robert Day

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1962-12-26

Filming Locations: Bingham Road railway station, Addiscombe, Croydon, London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Oliver Reed

Tony Hancock

Anthony Hancock

George Sanders

Sir Charles Brewer

Paul Massie

Paul Ashby

Margit Saad

Margot Carreras

Grégoire Aslan

Aristotle Carreras

Dennis Price

Jim Smith

Irene Handl

Mrs. Crevatte

John Le Mesurier

Office Manager

Liz Fraser

Waitress

Mervyn Johns

Manager of Art Gallery, London

Peter Bull

Manager of Art Gallery, Paris

Nanette Newman

Josey

Marie Burke

Madame Laurent

Bernard Rebel

Art Dealer

Sandor Elès

Artist

Gary Cockrell

Artist (as Gary Cockerill)

Neville Becker

Artist

Marie Devereux

Yvette

John Wood

Poet

Victor Platt

Dock Official

Mario Fabrizi

Coffee Bar attendant

Barry Shawzin

Bistro Owner

Bandana Das Gupta

Foreign Beauty (uncredited)

Sally Douglas

Jim Smith Acolyte (uncredited)

Marie France

French Girl (uncredited)

Hugh Lloyd

Man on Train (uncredited)

Jean Marsh

Strange Woman at Party (uncredited)

Patrick Newell

Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Edna Petrie

Ghastly Woman (uncredited)

Dani Seper

French Girl (uncredited)

Brian Weske

Laughing Sailor (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film was retitled "Call Me Genius" in the United States to avoid confusion with a television show called The Rebel (1959).

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Tony travels to the Dover docks via the reknowned Golden Arrow train.

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In September 2002 the London Institute of Pataphysics recreated Alistair Grant's pieces for the film (down to Magnus Irvin's pyjama'd reworking of Tony's bicycle action painting, itself inspired by former Royal College of Art student Bill Green's output) at London's The Foundry, presenting the exhibition as if it were a retrospective of genuine unknown artist Anthony Hancock.

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Quotes

Hancock: Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day. I'm off! I know what I was cut out to do and I should have done it long ago. YOU'RE ALL RAVING MAD! None of you know what you're looking at. You wait 'til I'm dead you'll see I was right!

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Paul Ashby: Art to me is more than inspiration, it's life itself... Every brush-stroke is torn out of my body... I'm seeking the volcanic turbulence of light and colour... I don't just paint a chair, I become the chair.

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Hancock: It's a self portrait.

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