
Birthday:
04-16-1882
Deathday:
02-10-1952 (69 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
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The Third Degree
Act like Robert Underwood
event1919
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An expose of the methods used by a police-department to extract a confession from a suspect, regardless of innocence or guilt, and the effect and consequences on a family when an innocent member breaks under the interrogation methods and confesses to a crime he did not commit.
A Daughter of France
Act like Fritz von Meyring
event1918
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During World War I, Louise, a French girl, refuses to leave her château after the invading Germans take it over for use as their headquarters. A German officer, Col. von Knorr, makes repeated advances on her, but she rebuffs him.
The Little Minister
Act like Peter Tosh
event1934 star_border 5.9
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The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
Gangster's Boy
Act like Butler
event1938
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A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
The Strange Door
event1951 star_border 6.2
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The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
The Dawn Patrol
Act like Scott's Mechanic
event1938 star_border 6.8
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In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
Who Loved Him Best?
Act like George Steele
event1918
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Motion picture actress Doria Dane (Edna Goodrich) gives up her career to play muse to sculptor George Steele (Herbert Evans). With Doria's help, Steele overcomes his Bohemian excesses and stays away from the influence of the jealous but wealthy Mrs. Schuyler (Miriam Folger). He finally achieves success, but he also begins to neglect Doria. When she catches him kissing the dreaded Mrs. Schuyler, Doria decides to leave him. But when she goes to his studio to drop off her farewell note, she discovers another sculptor, Harry North, copying one of Steele's masterpieces. Later she comes over to Steele's studio and, in front of a crowd of people, smashes the statue to bits. Then she takes them over to North's studio and explains that she switched the two statues, and reveals North as a fraud. At the base of the real statue she has left a letter of reconciliation to Steele.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Act like Seneschal (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Act like Majordomo (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.5
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In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Angel
Act like Lord Davington's Butler (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.8
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While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Joan of Arc
Act like Bailiff (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.1
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In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Night and Day
Act like Bobby (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.7
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When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Act like Maxim's Doorman (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Mr. Wong, Detective
Act like Wilk's Butler (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.6
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A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Service with a Smile
Act like Golfer
event1934 star_border 8.5
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Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent.
Mrs. Miniver
Act like Glee Club Member (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
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Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Shanghai Express
Act like British Railway Officer (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Act like Smithson - Barham's Butler (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
Abroad with Two Yanks
Act like Michael, Stuart's Butler
event1944 star_border 6
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Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
Saleslady
Act like Bates
event1938
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A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Pardon My Past
Act like Burch, the Butler
event1945 star_border 6
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Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Act like Faculty Member (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.9
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Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Singapore
Act like Tolson (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.8
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After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Banjo
Act like Jeffries (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.5
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Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
The Hot Scots
Act like The Earl
event1948 star_border 6
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The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
Vagabond Loafers
Act like Wilkes The Butler
event1949 star_border 7.5
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The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
Secrets
Act like Lord Hurley
event1933 star_border 5.1
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In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
The Fabulous Suzanne
Act like Butler
event1946 star_border 5
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Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
Casablanca
Act like Englishman Questioning Casino's Honesty (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 8.2
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In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Reunion in Vienna
Act like Count Von Stainz
event1933 star_border 6.8
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An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
Way for a Sailor
Act like Ship's Officer
event1930 star_border 4.4
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A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
High Flyers
Act like Mr. Hartley
event1937 star_border 7
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Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Everybody's Doing It
Act like Grady
event1938 star_border 5
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Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Bathing Beauty
Act like Backstage Manager (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.8
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After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
The Heart of a Hero
Act like William Howe
event1916 star_border 5
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This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).
Ivy
Act like Deck Official (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.8
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When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Man Hunt
Act like Reeves (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7
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Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
How Green Was My Valley
Act like Postman (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.3
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A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Act like Fagin - the Carson Butler (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Colleen
Act like Charles (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Brief Moment
Act like Alfred
event1933 star_border 2.7
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A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
That Lady in Ermine
event1948 star_border 5.8
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Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
The White Angel
Act like Porter (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 8
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In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
The Fatal Witness
Act like First Coroner (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.2
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A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
The Little Princess
Act like Orderly Chasing Sara
event1939 star_border 6.7
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A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
We Are Not Alone
Act like Patient with Straw Hat
event1939 star_border 6.1
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A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Susannah of the Mounties
Act like Doctor
event1939 star_border 6.3
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This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Man About Town
Act like Englishman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4.5
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Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Miracles for Sale
Act like Nightclub Patron
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
The Rains Came
Act like Bates
event1939 star_border 5.9
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Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
Gilda
Act like English Cartel Member (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.5
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A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Father's Little Dividend
Act like Men's Club Waiter (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.4
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Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
McFadden´s Flats
Act like Butler
event1935
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Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
A Likely Story
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.2
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A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Act like Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.9
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Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
A Christmas Carol
Act like (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
The Blue Bird
Act like Footman
event1940 star_border 5.7
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Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Little Old New York
Act like Livingstone's Footman
event1940 star_border 4
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Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Speedy
Act like Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
event1928 star_border 7.3
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Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
Monsieur Verdoux
Act like Garden Party Guest Getting Sprayed (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.7
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The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Shoot to Kill
Act like Man on Dais (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.6
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A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
What's Cookin'?
Act like Butler
event1942 star_border 5.5
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J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
The Lodger
event1944 star_border 6.3
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In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
The Witness Vanishes
Act like Kirby the Assistant Editor (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.7
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In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Ship of Wanted Men
Act like Duke Finley
event1933 star_border 2
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A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
The Great Sinner
Act like Roulette Player (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.7
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A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Student Tour
Act like English Coach
event1934 star_border 5
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A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Foreign Correspondent
Act like Parking Valet (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Commissionaire (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.5
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
A Chump at Oxford
Act like Professor Crampton (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
Susan and God
Act like David (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Mr. Skeffington
Act like Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
The Green Archer
Act like Henderson
event1940 star_border 5.9
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The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
And Sudden Death
Act like Meggs
event1936
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An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Echo Mountain
Act like Mr. Rayford
event1936
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Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting.
Road to Happiness
Act like Evans - Rankin's Butler (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.5
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A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Shrimps for a Day
Act like Butler
event1934 star_border 7
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A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Act like Butler
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
The White Cliffs of Dover
Act like Footman (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.7
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American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Sky Liner
Act like Sir Harry
event1949 star_border 5
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Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Act like Betsy's Butler (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.1
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Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
The Westland Case
Act like Simmons - Butler
event1937 star_border 6
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A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Eagle Squadron
Act like Air Raid Warden
event1942
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An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Johnny Doughboy
Act like Butler
event1942 star_border 5.5
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As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Million Dollar Legs
Act like Mata's Butler (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
The Gay Bride
Act like British Official (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Chances
Act like British Soldier at the Front (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7
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Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Mission to Moscow
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Act like Evans
event1935 star_border 5
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Fun on a Weekend
Act like Barton (Uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Born to Be Bad
Act like Charity Ball Guest (Uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
The Secret Fury
Act like Wedding Doorman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.4
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The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
The Miracle of the Bells
Act like Nobleman in 'Joan of Arc'
event1948 star_border 6.3
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The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Act like Jenkins
event1947
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Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Great Expectations
Act like Waiter
event1934 star_border 6.2
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A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
The Devil to Pay!
Act like Racing Fan at Derby (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 6
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Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
Hard to Get
Act like Richards' Chauffeur (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Lured
Act like Fleming's Butler (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Newly Rich
Act like Tiffany Chauffeur (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 3
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Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
The Corn Is Green
Act like Miner in Bar (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.1
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When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
The Wild Girl
Act like Leo
event1917
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A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. The gypsy chief, aware of the girl's value, instructs Sabia, the tribe's matron, to dress and rear her as a boy. Years later, while the tribe is traveling in Virginia, Vosho, the chief's son, discovers the true sex of the girl, now called Firefly, and demands to marry her.
Maid of Salem
Act like Townsman (Uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.9
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When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
The Brighton Strangler
Act like Manby's Butler (Uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.9
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After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Werewolf of London
Act like Detective Evans (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Kitty
Act like Footman (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Thunder on the Hill
Act like Villager (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
The Gang's All Here
Act like Club New Yorker Patron (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.8
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A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Act like Sardams's Butler
event1944 star_border 4.4
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A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Two for Tonight
Act like Butler
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
This Man Is Mine
Act like Martin
event1934 star_border 5.5
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The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
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