Fear of Fanny (2006)

★ 7.1 1h 20m IMDb
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The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s.

Fear of Fanny

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Julia Davis
Julia Davis as Fanny Cradock Age 59 · Guildford, Surrey, England, UK Julia Charlotte L. Davis is an English actress, comedian, director and writer. A nine-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for Hunderby in 2013 and the 2018 British Academy Televi...
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss as Johnnie Cradock Age 59 · Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK Mark Gatiss (/ˈɡeɪtɪs/; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is best known for his work on television, acting in and co-creating shows...
Jason Watkins
Jason Watkins as Derek Age 59 · Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK Jason Watkins is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor...
Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell as Jane Age 44 · London, England, UK Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British and American actress. After appearing in various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period dramas, appearing in th...
Phil Nice
Phil Nice as Technician Age 72 · Vange, Essex, UK Phillip Nice (born 6 April 1954) is a British actor who has been active in television and films since 1984. He was born in Vange, Essex. Nice has appeared in a number of television series, including...
Jordan Long
Jordan Long as Gas Fitter Age 52 · London, England, United Kingdom Jordan Long was born in 1974 in London, England. He is an actor and voice-over artist, known for, Unforgotten (2015), Prime Suspect: Tennison (2017), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), The Wrong Man...

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Nov 08, 2025
For those of us of a certain age, Fanny Craddock was an household name who seemed to polarise opinion in Britain as she emerged as the country’s first television chef. She (Julia Davis) was famed, along with her husband Johnnie (Mark Gatiss) and this attempts to take us through a chronology of her rise and fall. Right from the outset, though, this struggles to deliver. Though Davis herself delivers quite a solid performance, it doesn’t really bear much resemblance to the actual woman herself - and there is plenty of televised evidence that this is more of a dramatisation based around her career than any serious effort at presenting an authoritative biopic. Gatiss delivers well enough, but here again his persona seems more affected than the real life gent. She was a formidable and pioneering woman in real life, but here she seems more preposterous with her excesses - and yes, there were a few of those, exaggerated without us ever really feeling we are getting to know what made this woman tick. It also joins her life later in her career, so we never quite get to grips with just what contributed to her fairly phenomenal success in the first place as she tried to wean the masses away from spam, egg and chips towards something that might actually include something green and healthy. It’s lively enough and were it a drama about an entirely fictitious character, it might have fared better but with so much readily available on the real Fanny Craddock, this doesn’t really do her much justice.

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