Phil Davis

Golden Years review

Gentle comedy about elderly bank-robbers ends up reconfirming the very cliches it sets out to challenge.

David Kettle, The Arts Desk, 28th April 2016

Corbett and Brambell worked together like a couple of knives sharpening each other. Jason Isaacs and Phil Davis, particularly Phil Davis (so natty, neat and tippy-toes, so cut glass, behatted and buttoned up), were striking, like Walter Matthau and George Burns in The Odd Couple, that classically incompatible double act. In every double act, fate stands in the wings with a sledgehammer.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 20th March 2008

The Curse of Steptoe is the first in BBC4's The Curse of Comedy season. And I've just finished watching it on preview disc. It's wonderful - Jason Isaacs (Harry H Corbett) and Phil Davis (Wilfrid Brambell) nail their roles. [...] The film documents the actors' frosty relationship, with both each other, and the show that simultaneously made and ruined them. It's beautifully shot, cleverly written ("The father's just a feed, really", Corbett tells his wife) and - well - just loads better than the BBC recent trails make it appear.

Graham Kibble-White, Off The Telly, 6th March 2008