| A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 11, 1964 |
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| Director: | Jay Lewis |
| Writer: | Jay Lewis, Johnny Whyte |
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| Production Companies | British Lion Film Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Ronnie Barker | The Cement Mixer |
| Richard Briers | The Husband |
| Peter Butterworth | The Carpenter |
| Bernard Cribbins | The Stonemason |
| Bill Fraser | The Shop Steward |
| Norman Mitchell | The Foreman |
| Ronnie Stevens | The Architect |
| Fred Emney | The Mayor |
| Janet Brown | Surveyor's Wife |
| Gerald Campion | Glazier |
| Bridget Armstrong | The Wife |
| George Benson | Gatekeeper |
| Helen Cotterill | Mayor's daughter |
| Douglas Ives | Old workman |
| Harry Locke | Gas Board Foreman |
| Jack Melford | Telephone engineer |
| Thelma Ruby | Mayor's wife |
| Tony Tanner | Workman with radio |
| Thorley Walters | Estate agent |
| Aubrey Woods | Water Board Inspector |
| Henry Woolf | Diviner |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Jay Lewis | Screenplay, Director |
| Johnny Whyte | Screenplay |
| Denys N. Coop | Director of Photography |
| Brian West | Camera Operator |
| William Lang | Production Manager |
| Denys Pavitt | Art Direction |
| Al Gell | Editor |
| Tilly Day | Continuity |
| Joanna Wright | Wardrobe Designer |
| Ene Watts | Production Secretary |
| Ron Goodwin | Original Music Composer, Conductor |
| Name | Title |
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| Bob Kellett | Producer |
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