
Birthday:
09-10-1892
Deathday:
04-21-1978 (85 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
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The House in Marsh Road
Producer
event1960 star_border 5.4
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When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
Clash by Night
Screenplay
event1964 star_border 7
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A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
The Voice Within
Director
event1946
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Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
She Knows Y'Know
Screenplay
event1962 star_border 6
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Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
Master Spy
Screenplay
event1964 star_border 6
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Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Escape from Broadmoor
Executive Producer
event1948 star_border 5.5
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A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
There's Reason in Rhumba
Producer
event1939
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Rhythm and romanticism rules over realism in this recreation of the origins of the rhumba dance
What Do We Do Now?
Producer
event1946
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Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
The Third Alibi
Screenplay
event1961 star_border 6.5
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A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
The Cuckoo Patrol
Producer
event1967 star_border 3.5
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Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
Comets
Producer
event1930
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A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
Jackpot
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 5
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Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Sleeping Partners
Producer
event1930
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A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.
Infatuation
Producer
event1930
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A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.
Guilty?
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 6
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Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
The Turners of Prospect Road
Director
event1947 star_border 6
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A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Who Killed the Cat?
Writer
event1966 star_border 7
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A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
A Tale of Five Cities
Story
event1951 star_border 4.9
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An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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