Help! I've Gotta Horse! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele plays the dual roles of Tony, an impoverished aristocrat, and Tommy, an identical job-seeker who agrees to impersonate him on a trip to the kingdom of Ritalla, where he and the king's daughter fall in love. Considered to be Britain's first home-grown rock and roll star, Steele had previously starred in imaginatively titled "The Tommy Steele Story". Eager to branch out into all-round entertainment he went on to act at the Old Vic, to star in Hollywood films "The Happiest Millionaire" and "Finian's Rainbow" and to create the role of Arthur Kipps in musical "Half a Sixpence".

He was knighted in 2020 for services to entertainment and to charity.

Answer: Cliff Richard

Don, played by Cliff Richard, and three other London bus mechanics, convert a double decker bus into a hotel and drive it around Europe, en route picking up three young women and an American 'boy' who is actually a missing female singer. Crammed full of musical numbers, including chart toppers "Bachelor Boy", "The Next Time" and the title song, the film was the second most popular film of 1963 in Britain, beaten only by "Bond" film "From Russia with Love".

Answer: Joe Brown

Joe Brown plays unemployed Londoner Alf Hitchens, who surprises himself by penning a hit song. Fellow singers Marty Wilde and Susan Maughan play Alf's friend Herbie and girlfriend Marilyn and the film, based on a stage play by Alan Klein, features an appearance by Freddie and the Dreamers. Voted Top UK Vocal Personality of 1962 by "New Musical Express" readers, Brown had a number of Top 10 hits with his backing group the Bruvvers and was supported by the Beatles on tour. Fifty years later he was still touring.

Answer: Gerry and the Pacemakers

Fellow clients of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Gerry and the Pacemakers became the first British act to have their first three singles top the charts. In "Ferry Cross the Mersey" the group members play themselves. Returning from a successful American tour, lead vocalist Gerry Marsden recalls their beginnings. Made on location in Liverpool and featuring Epstein acts Cilla Black and The Fourmost, the film culminates in the boys winning a music contest and celebrating on the Mersey ferry.

The title song became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

Answer: The Beatles

The Beatles' attempts to record their next album are frustrated by the need to save Ringo Starr from members of an eastern cult intent on obtaining a ring that can't be removed from his finger. Like its predecessor, 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!" was directed by Dick Lester, but a bigger budget allowed it to be filmed in colour and on location in the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas.

The songs included in the film, including "Ticket to Ride", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and the title song, formed the first side of the Beatles' album "Help!"

Answer: The Dave Clark Five

"Catch Us If You Can", known in the USA as "Having a Wild Weekend", was released in Britain at the same time as "Help!", the films being shown by rival cinema chains. The Five are a group of stuntmen/film extras led by Steve, played by Dave Clark. While filming a meat advertisement, Steve escapes in an E-type Jaguar with Dinah, the face of the advertising campaign. Pursued by the advertising team, the couple travel through south-west England, taking in Salisbury Plain, Bath and the Devon coast.

The film was directed by John Boorman with the screenplay by Peter Nichols, both handpicked by Clark. Barbara Ferris was nominated for a BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer award for her portrayal of Dinah.

Answer: Billy Fury

Animal-loving popstar Billy sets out to buy a sheepdog, but ends up with a thoroughbred racehorse instead. When Armitage, the horse, contracts pneumonia, Billy has to choose between him and the big show for which he has been preparing. Armitage was played by Billy Fury's own racehorse, Anselmo. Fury had made his film debut in 1962 film "Play it Cool" and went on to appear in "That'll Be the Day" in 1973.

Heart problems resulting from childhood rheumatic fever limited his later career and he died in 1983 aged 42.

Answer: Frank Ifield

Frank Ifield plays Dave Kelly, an aspiring Australian singer who gets involved with a criminal gang. Born in Britain to Australian parents who returned home when he was young, Ifield topped the UK singles chart four times in 1962 and 1963, becoming the first UK-based artist to do so three times in succession.

The film includes the first of his chart-toppers, a cover of 1940s song "I Remember You", as well as "Waltzing Matilda", which provides the film's title.

Answer: Lulu

"To Sir with Love" is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by ER Braithwaite and stars Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray, a teacher from British Guiana working in an East London school. Lulu plays Babs Pegg, one of his pupils. Her recording of the title song became the best-selling single of 1967 in the USA - ironically it was only released in Britain as a B-side. Lulu repeated her role in "To Sir with Love II", a 1996 American TV film starring Poitier.

Answer: David Essex

Intended by writer Ray Connolly as an antidote to the traditional popstar vehicle, "That'll Be the Day" tells the story of Jim MacLaine, who drops out of school and ends up working in a holiday camp. MacLaine returns home and marries his girlfriend but, like his father before him, deserts her and their child, taking off with a second-hand guitar. Ringo Starr plays MacLaine's friend Mike and Billy Fury appears as holiday camp star Rocky Storm with Keith Moon as his drummer.

Not yet a rockstar, David Essex was appearing in the London production of "Godspell" when cast as MacLaine, but by the time the 1974 sequel "Stardust" came out he had become a genuine teen idol. "Stardust" follows Jim MacLaine as he becomes a drug-addicted superstar, ultimately dying of an overdose. Ringo Starr reputedly found the screenplay too unsettling and declined to reappear, the part of Mike being taken by Adam Faith. Keith Moon made a second appearance as drummer JD Clover.