
Birthday:
01-30-1871
Deathday:
04-06-1949 (78 years)
Birthplace:
St. Hélier, Isle of Jersey, England, UK
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Scrooge
Act like Ebenezer Scrooge
event1935 star_border 5.9
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Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Scrooge
Act like Ebenezer Scrooge
event1913 star_border 7
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A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.
The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
event1913
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The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”. “The ever popular ragtime ALEXANDER’S RAG TIME BAND by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss”.
Busman's Honeymoon
Act like Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
event1940 star_border 5.5
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When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Silent Dust
Act like Lord Clandon
event1949 star_border 7.3
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A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Pastor Hall
Act like General von Grotjahn
event1940 star_border 7.7
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The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
The Secret of the Loch
Act like Professor Heggie
event1934 star_border 5.6
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A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
Young Man's Fancy
Act like Duke of Beaumont
event1939 star_border 5.8
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An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Fame Is the Spur
Act like Old Buck
event1947 star_border 6.5
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A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Vintage Wine
Act like Charles Popinot
event1935 star_border 5.7
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The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Tell Tales
event1930
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The popular raconteur Seymour Hicks tells some of his stories.
The Love Habit
Act like Justin Abelard
event1931
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'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Always Tell Your Wife
Act like The Husband - Jim Chesson
event1923 star_border 5.7
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A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
Mr. What's-His-Name?
Act like Alfred Henfield
event1935
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A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
Sleeping Partners
Act like He
event1930
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A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Glamour
Act like Henry Garthome
event1931
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A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Money for Nothing
Act like Jeff Cheddar
event1932
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As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Eliza Comes to Stay
Act like Sandy Verrall
event1936
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A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
The Lambeth Walk
Act like Sir John Tremayne
event1939
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Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.
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