Bruce Lacey

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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.

Most Popular Bruce Lacey Trailers

Total trailers found: 30

Smashing Time Trailer (1967)

20 December 1967

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

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Trailer (1968)

11 September 1968

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

L'art pour l'art Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

Art for art's sake.

The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit) Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

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 ending.

Battle of New Orleans Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

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

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film Trailer (1959)

31 October 1959

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

It's Trad, Dad! Trailer (1962)

30 March 1962

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.

Just Like a Woman Trailer (1967)

26 February 1967

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 that Lewis produces.

One Man Band Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

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 shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal.

Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric Trailer (1974)

08 October 1974

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 cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.

The Bruce Lacey Experience Trailer (2012)

02 January 2012

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

The Flying Alberts Trailer (1963)

01 January 1963

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 ending.

Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value Trailer (1961)

05 September 1961

Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy actor Mario Fabrizi, who died 18 months later, aged just 38.

Help! Trailer (1965)

29 July 1965

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

The Preservation Man Trailer (1962)

20 May 1962

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 his art with their original function is irrelevant.

The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising Trailer (1962)

01 November 1962

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

Double Exposure Trailer (1975)

05 January 1975

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

Stella Chase Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema techniques turn it into something truly beautiful.

Breaking Away to Come Together Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

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

The Alberts’ Channel Too Trailer (1964)

21 April 1964

The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre show, ‘An Evening of British Rubbish’.

Kissing Film Trailer (1967)

05 January 1967

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

Head in Shadow Trailer (1952)

01 July 1952

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

The Lacey Rituals Trailer (1973)

05 January 1973

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 interesting and funny.

Agib and Agab Trailer (1953)

01 January 1953

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 forward to FLAMING CREATURES and other underground movies from the 60s that merge lush fantasy with grimy reality.

The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

The Humanoid Race Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

Wales Stone Circles Trailer (1981)

23 July 1981

Part of a pair of Super 8 landscape studies with an ancient British style, the camera explores the countryside under striking cloudscapes.

How to Have a Bath Trailer (1971)

05 January 1971

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

Uncle's Tea Party Trailer (1962)

01 January 1962

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

Everybody's Nobody Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.