Very Important Person
- 1961 film
1961 film spoofing stiff-upper-lipped war dramas, starring James Robertson Justice as a bombastic scientist who ends up in a PoW camp. Also features Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Colin Gordon and more.
Cast & crew credits
| James Robertson Justice | Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow, RN |
| Leslie Phillips | Jimmy Cooper |
| Stanley Baxter | 'Jock' Everett |
| Stanley Baxter | Kommondant Stamfel |
| Eric Sykes | Willoughby |
| Richard Wattis | Woodcock |
| Colin Gordon | Major Briggs |
| John Le Mesurier | Piggott |
| Norman Bird | Group Captain Travers |
| Jeremy Lloyd | 'Bonzo' Baines |
| John Forrest | 'Grassy' Green |
| Jean Cadell | Mrs MacDougall |
| Peter Myers | Shaw |
| Ronnie Stevens | Hankley |
| Ronald Leigh-Hunt (as Ronald Leigh Hunt) | Clynes |
| Steve Plytas | Luftwaffe Officer |
| John Ringham | 'Plum' Pouding |
| Joseph Furst | Luftwaffe Interrogator |
| Norman Shelley | Sir Frederick Whittaker |
| Brian Oulton | Tottington Scientist |
| Frederick Piper | Tottington Scientist |
| Joan Haythorne | Miss Rogers |
| Heidi Erich | German Frau |
| Lesley Allen | Secretary |
| Vincent Ball | Higgins |
| Ed Devereaux | Webber |
| Hugo De Vernier | Swiss Commissioner |
| Ian R. Parsons | Swiss Commissioner |
| John Herrington | Swiss Commissioner |
| Nancy Nevinson | German Frau |
| Godfrey Winn | Self |
| John Huson | Actor |
| Jack Davies | Writer |
| Henry Blyth | Writer |
| Ken Annakin | Director |
| Julian Wintle | Producer |
| Leslie Parkyn | Producer |
| Ralph Sheldon | Editor |
| Harry Pottle | Production Designer |
| Ernest Steward | Director of Photography |
| Reg Owen | Composer |
| Clive Reed | 1st Assistant Director |
| Mark Hardy | Floor Manager |