
Birthday:
01-10-1894
Deathday:
02-04-1983 (89 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
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Ladies in Retirement
Screenplay
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
Death at Broadcasting House
Director
event1934 star_border 5.7
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An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
The Mad Room
Writer
event1969 star_border 6.1
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Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.
The Silent Passenger
Director
event1935 star_border 4.5
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A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
The Village Squire
Director
event1935 star_border 6
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Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
The House of the Spaniard
Director
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
Calling the Tune
Director
event1936
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Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscrupulous record label boss Mr Gordon (Sam Livesey), who finally gets his comeuppance after one dirty trick too far against his rivals. If the film's love story is perfunctory, the real interest comes with watching performers of the day, from Henry Wood and his orchestra to George Robey and Charles 'the laughing policeman' Penrose laying down their recordings direct to record. And something very like a prototype laser disc makes a crucial appearance too.
Dreams Come True
Director
event1936
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A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
Flying Fifty-Five
Director
event1939 star_border 7.6
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Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Kate Plus Ten
Director
event1938
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Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Suspect
Screenplay
event1958
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The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
The Crimson Circle
Director
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
The Jewel
Director
event1933
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A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Design for Murder
Other
event1939 star_border 5.8
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When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Blind Folly
Director
event1939
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A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Ebb Tide
Writer
event1932
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A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
The Price of Wisdom
Director
event1935 star_border 6
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A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
Called Back
Director
event1933
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'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
Fast and Sexy
Director
event1958 star_border 5.2
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A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Wallflower
Theatre Play
event1948 star_border 6
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Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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