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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Directed by Kevin Billington
1971    1h 34m    R
6.967%
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted, flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain, he starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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Cast of The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  • Peter CookMichael Rimmer
  • Denholm ElliottPeter NIss
  • Arthur LoweFerret
  • John CleesePumer
  • Vanessa HowardPatricia Cartwright
  • Ronald FraserTom Hutchinson
  • Graham ChapmanFromage
  • Ann BeachReceptionist
  • Desmond Walter-EllisBuffery
  • Dudley FosterFederman
  • James CossinsCrodder
  • Valerie LeonTanya
  • William JobWaring
  • Elspeth MarchMrs. Ferret
  • Dennis PriceFairburn
  • Monika RingwaldGirl in Commercial
  • Diana CouplandMrs. Spimm
  • Michael TrubshaweMandeville
  • Harold PinterSteven Hench
  • Ronnie CorbettInterviewer
  • Norman BirdAlderman Poot
  • Graham CrowdenBishop of Cowley
  • Richard PearsonWilting
  • Jerry RamRanjit X
  • Roger MaxwellParty Chairman
  • George A. CooperBlacket
  • Arthur LovegroveStudio Doorman
  • Roland CulverSir Eric Bentley
  • Jonathan Cecil'Spot'
  • Ronald BaddileyFreddie Daring
  • Frank ThorntonTom Stoddart
  • Richard CaldicotBream
  • Nicholas PhippsSnaggot
  • Guy MiddletonPotter
  • Julian GloverColonel Moffat
  • Robert RaglanGeneral Strike
  • Norman RossingtonGuide at Porton Down
  • Martin BoddeyMajor Mathieson
  • Michael BarringtonMajor Scott
  • Michael BatesMr. Spimm
  • Sinéad CusackYvonne (Uncredited)

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