Screen adaptations of plays by Georges Feydeau

Georges Feydeau, the best-known writer of French farce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote more than twenty full-length comic plays and twenty one-act ones. Some of these have been adapted for the cinema. Although Feydeau was active well into the era of film he never wrote for the medium, but within two years of his death in 1921 other writers and directors began to take his plays as the basis for films, of which more than twenty have been made, in several countries and languages.

Television adaptations

In the 1960s and 1970s the BBC filmed a series of fourteen farces by Feydeau, adapted by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin, under the collective title Ooh La La!. Some were adapted from one-act plays, others from full-length ones. All fourteen starred Patrick Cargill.

Title	Adapted from	Co-starring with Patrick Cargill	Producer	Year	Ref
A Good Night's Sleep	Feu la mère de Madame	Amanda Barrie	Stuart Allen	1968
All Night Sitting	Tailleur pour dames	Amanda Barrie Anton Rodgers	Stuart Allen	1968
A Little Bit to Fall Back On	Les Pavés de l'ours	Amanda Barrie Jim Dale Fabia Drake	Stuart Allen	1968
Above Reproach	C'est une femme du monde	Amanda Barrie Donald Sinden Barbara Windsor	Stuart Allen	1968
Making a Pass	Dormez, je le veux!	Amanda Barrie Robertson Hare	Stuart Allen	1968
Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted	Gibier de potence	Amanda Barrie Anton Rodgers	Stuart Allen	1968
Call Me Maestro	Amour et piano	Fenella Fielding Roy Hudd	G. B. Lupino	1968
Keep an Eye on Amelie	Occupe-toi d'Amélie!	Judi Dench Bill Fraser	Douglas Argent	1973
A Pig in a Poke	Chat en poche	Richard Briers Joan Sims	Douglas Argent	1973
A-Hunting We Will Go	Monsieur chasse!	Barbara Murray Tony Britton Joan Hickson	Douglas Argent	1973
The Lady from Maxim's	La Dame de chez Maxim	Bernard Cribbins Barbara Windsor Betty Marsden	Douglas Argent	1973
Paying the Piper	Le Dindon	Amanda Barrie Michael Aldridge Michael Bates	Douglas Argent	1973
Caught in the Act	La Puce à l'oreille	Dinah Sheridan Patricia Routledge Bernard Bresslaw Dennis Waterman	Douglas Argent	1973
Kept on a String	Un Fil à la patte	Freddie Jones Eleanor Summerfield	Douglas Argent	1973