Doctor in the House

Overview

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

Simon Sparrow

Muriel Pavlow

Nurse Joy Gibson

Kenneth More

Richard Grimsdyke

Donald Sinden

Tony Benskin

Kay Kendall

Miss Isobel Minster

James Robertson Justice

Sir Lancelot Spratt

Donald Houston

Taffy Evans

Suzanne Cloutier

Stella

George Coulouris

Briggs

Jean Taylor Smith

Sister Virtue

Nicholas Phipps

Magistrate

Geoffrey Keen

Dean