
Birthday:
10-26-1865
Deathday:
04-21-1942 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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A Light Woman
Act like Marquis de Vargas
event1928
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Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.
Carry On!
Act like John Peters
event1927
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'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Moscow Nights
Act like President of Court Martial
event1935 star_border 5.2
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During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
The Riverside Murder
Act like Dickenson - Norman's Attorney
event1935 star_border 5
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This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.
Jack of All Trades
Act like Henry Kilner
event1936 star_border 5.5
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In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
King of the Damned
Act like Commandant Fernandez
event1935 star_border 6
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Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
The W Plan
Act like Commander-in-Chief
event1930 star_border 7
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A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The Woman Between
Act like Earl Bellington
event1931
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An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
The Sky’s the Limit
Act like Lord Morgan
event1937
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Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
The Third Clue
Act like Gabriel Wells
event1934 star_border 3
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Set in an Old Dark House, a man is murdered in his study. With his dying breath, he tells his brother of two clues to finding hidden Eastern Indian jewels that were part of a precious idol. He wants his brother to locate the treasure, so that it can be given to his son. But before the treasure can be found, a third clue must be discovered.
The Case of Lady Camber
Act like Sir Bedford Slufter
event1920
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Lord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.
Almost a Honeymoon
Act like Sir James Jephson
event1930
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An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him.
Compromising Daphne
Act like Mr. Ponsonby
event1930
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A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Knowing Men
Act like Marquis de Jaurmais
event1930
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Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Two Worlds
Act like Col. von Zaminsky
event1930
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An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
The Chinese Puzzle
Act like Sir Aylmer Brent
event1932
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A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
Strictly Business
Act like Sir Gerald Plummet
event1931
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The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
On Secret Service
Act like Colonel von Waldmuller
event1933 star_border 7
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Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
The Rasp
Act like Sir Arthur Coates
event1932
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When cabinet minister John Hoode is murdered at his country house, his secretary, Alan Deacon, is the prime suspect and is arrested. Reporter Anthony Gethryn determines to unmask the real murderer.
Rolling in Money
Act like Carter
event1934
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An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Tell England
Act like The Colonel
event1931 star_border 7.5
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In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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