Bruce Lacey

Bruce Lacey

Bruce Lacey was a British artist, performer and eccentric. After completing his national service in the Navy he became established on the avant-garde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. He has been closely associated with The Alberts performance group and The Goon Show. He made the props and had an acting part in Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.

  • Title: Bruce Lacey
  • Popularity: 0.747
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1927-03-31
  • Place of Birth:
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  • Also Known As: The Alberts
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Bruce Lacey Movies

  • 1964
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    The Alberts’ Channel Too

    The Alberts’ Channel Too

    1 1964 HD

    The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre...

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  • 1959
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    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    5.4 1959 HD

    A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

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  • 1968
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    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    6.7 1968 HD

    Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's...

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  • 1967
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    Just Like a Woman

    Just Like a Woman

    5 1967 HD

    Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show...

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  • 1962
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    The Preservation Man

    The Preservation Man

    1 1962 HD

    The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into...

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  • 2012
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    The Bruce Lacey Experience

    The Bruce Lacey Experience

    1 2012 HD

    A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.

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  • 1965
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    One Man Band

    One Man Band

    1 1965 HD

    An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the...

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  • 1960
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    Everybody's Nobody

    Everybody's Nobody

    1 1960 HD

    Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” –...

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  • 1952
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    Head in Shadow

    Head in Shadow

    1 1952 HD

    A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of Camden and Islington.

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  • 1960
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    Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    1 1960 HD

    Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.

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  • 1962
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    Uncle's Tea Party

    Uncle's Tea Party

    1 1962 HD

    A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.

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  • 1953
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    Agib and Agab

    Agib and Agab

    1 1953 HD

    Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks...

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  • 1974
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    Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric

    Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric

    7 1974 HD

    A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a...

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  • 1967
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    Kissing Film

    Kissing Film

    1 1967 HD

    An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

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  • 1971
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    How to Have a Bath

    How to Have a Bath

    1 1971 HD

    An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

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  • 1975
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    1 1975 HD

    '.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)

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  • 1973
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    The Lacey Rituals

    The Lacey Rituals

    1 1973 HD

    Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely...

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  • 1965
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    The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)

    The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)

    1 1965 HD

    The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits of this film, both with their own distinct...

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  • 1965
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    The Humanoid Race

    The Humanoid Race

    1 1965 HD

    Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

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  • 1984
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    Breaking Away to Come Together

    Breaking Away to Come Together

    1 1984 HD

    Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into...

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  • 1973
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    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    1 1973 HD

    Experimental cutout piece

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  • 1981
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    Castlerigg

    Castlerigg

    1 1981 HD

    Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

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  • 2002
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    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    1 2002 HD

    Bruce Lacey performance

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  • 1973
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    British Landing on the Moon

    British Landing on the Moon

    1 1973 HD

    The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon

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  • 1974
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    Stella Chase

    Stella Chase

    1 1974 HD

    A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema...

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  • 1963
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    The Flying Alberts

    The Flying Alberts

    1 1963 HD

    The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits to this film, both with their distinct...

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  • 1961
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    Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

    Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

    1 1961 HD

    Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy...

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  • 1962
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    The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising

    The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising

    8 1962 HD

    A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

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  • 1962
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    It's Trad, Dad!

    It's Trad, Dad!

    5.6 1962 HD

    The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The...

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  • 1965
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    Help!

    Help!

    6.9 1965 HD

    An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...

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  • 1987
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    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    5 1987 HD

    A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

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  • 1967
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    Smashing Time

    Smashing Time

    6.2 1967 HD

    Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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  • 1966
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    L'art pour l'art

    L'art pour l'art

    1 1966 HD

    Art for art's sake.

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  • 1975
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1971
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    How to Have a Bath

    How to Have a Bath

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Lacey Rituals

    The Lacey Rituals

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1967
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    Kissing Film

    Kissing Film

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1952
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    Head in Shadow

    Head in Shadow

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1953
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    Agib and Agab

    Agib and Agab

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1982
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    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1973
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    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1981
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    Castlerigg

    Castlerigg

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1960
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    Everybody's Nobody

    Everybody's Nobody

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1973
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    British Landing on the Moon

    British Landing on the Moon

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1975
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Humanoid Race

    The Humanoid Race

    1 1965 HD

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  • 2002
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    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)

    The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1984
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    Breaking Away to Come Together

    Breaking Away to Come Together

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    5 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    5 1987 HD

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  • 1974
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    Stella Chase

    Stella Chase

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.37 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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