Spivs
 

The Spiv or Wide Boy is a popular archetype from Britain's wartime and postwar culture and I would be interersted to know whether these figures occur in the movie and TV culture of any other nations, like the US or Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiv



https://i.imgur.com/m3srZe8.jpg
John Blythe played "Gowan" in the 'Huggets' movies, as well as spiv roles in other films


https://i.imgur.com/xZfgkGA.jpg
George Cole was "Flash Harry" in the 'St Trinians' movies, where he connived in petty cons with the school's criminal element


https://i.imgur.com/GGubYYK.jpg
Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson in The Ladykillers


https://i.imgur.com/DswCeIq.jpg
George Cole again as "Arthur Daley", the wheeler-dealing car salesman in 70s TV show 'Minder'


https://i.imgur.com/Ljr95Lb.jpg
Another 1970s TV icon: James Beck as "Walker" in 'Dad's Army'


https://i.imgur.com/TtAIHLo.jpg
In the 1980s the trilby and long coat were replaced by flat cap and camel coat when David Jason first appeared as the incredible "Delboy Trotter" in 'Only Fools & Horses' on TV... he became a National Treasure

We had a series of childrens adventure books written in early 50's that featured a smuggler and a bootlegger called Robert Manki. He was not meant to be particulary symphatetic guy, but more like a full blown crook.


Though his looks an activities fits in the description of spiv.


Here he is in the television series made of the books.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqi1QW3TSuA


https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/uplo...410abe1276.jpg

He's perfect :haha: