
Birthday:
09-02-1897
Deathday:
04-20-1971 (73 years)
Birthplace:
Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
Biography
Cecil Parker (3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969.
Born Cecil Schwabe in Hastings, Sussex, he began his theatrical career in London in 1922 after serving in World War I. He made his first film appearance in 1928 and subsequently became a familiar face in British, and occasionally American films, until his death. He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown.
He acted in two adaptations of A. J. Cronin's novels, The Citadel (1938) and The Stars Look Down (1940), in addition to appearing in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Under Capricorn (1949), both of the later films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other roles were in 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and I Was Monty's Double (1958), as well as the comedies A French Mistress (1960), The Ladykillers (1955), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Court Jester (1955), Indiscreet (1958) and I Believe in You (1952). Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison.
He often played a touchy senior officer or British upper-class character, and his last two films were true to form: The Magnificent Two (1967) with the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise and Richard Attenborough's version of Oh! What A Lovely War (1969).
He played an evil, scheming butler on one episode of The Avengers ("The £50,000 Breakfast").
Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecil Parker , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born Cecil Schwabe in Hastings, Sussex, he began his theatrical career in London in 1922 after serving in World War I. He made his first film appearance in 1928 and subsequently became a familiar face in British, and occasionally American films, until his death. He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown.
He acted in two adaptations of A. J. Cronin's novels, The Citadel (1938) and The Stars Look Down (1940), in addition to appearing in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Under Capricorn (1949), both of the later films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other roles were in 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and I Was Monty's Double (1958), as well as the comedies A French Mistress (1960), The Ladykillers (1955), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Court Jester (1955), Indiscreet (1958) and I Believe in You (1952). Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison.
He often played a touchy senior officer or British upper-class character, and his last two films were true to form: The Magnificent Two (1967) with the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise and Richard Attenborough's version of Oh! What A Lovely War (1969).
He played an evil, scheming butler on one episode of The Avengers ("The £50,000 Breakfast").
Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecil Parker , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
The Lady Vanishes
Act like Eric Todhunter
event1938 star_border 7.4
top_panel_open
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
A Tale of Two Cities
Act like Jarvis Lorry
event1958 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
The Ladykillers
Act like Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
event1955 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Act like Professor Canford
event1960 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
The Man Who Changed His Mind
Act like Dr. Gratton
event1936 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Indiscreet
Act like Alfred Munson
event1958 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Housemaster
Act like Sir Berkeley Nightingale
event1938
top_panel_open
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Act like Britannus
event1945 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
The Court Jester
Act like King Roderick I
event1955 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Carry On Jack
Act like First Sealord
event1964 star_border 5.9
top_panel_open
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston.
The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
The Man in the White Suit
Act like Alan Birnley
event1951 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Crime Unlimited
Act like Assistant Commissioner
event1935 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
Circus of Fear
Act like Sir John
event1966 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
For Better, for Worse
Act like Anne's Father
event1954 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
The Stars Look Down
Act like Stanley Millington
event1940 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
The Admirable Crichton
Act like Lord Henry Loam
event1957 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
Swiss Family Robinson
Act like Captain Moreland
event1960 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
23 Paces to Baker Street
Act like Bob Matthews
event1956 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
The Blue Squadron
event1934
top_panel_open
Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost.
Dangerous Moonlight
Act like Specialist
event1941 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
The Citadel
Act like Dr. Charles Every
event1938 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Storm in a Teacup
Act like Provost William Gow
event1937 star_border 7.5
top_panel_open
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
The Constant Husband
Act like Llewellyn
event1955 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
I Was Monty's Double
Act like Colonel E.F. Logan
event1958 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
The Comedy Man
Act like Thomas Rutherford
event1964 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Quartet
Act like Colonel George Peregrine
event1948 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
The Saint's Vacation
Act like Rudolph Hauser
event1941 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Father Brown
Act like The Bishop
event1954 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
The Iron Maiden
Act like Sir Giles Thompson
event1963 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Under Ten Flags
Act like Colonel Howard
event1960 star_border 5.4
top_panel_open
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.
Sons of the Sea
Act like Cmdr. Herbert
event1939 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
A French Mistress
Act like John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
event1960 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
On the Fiddle
Act like Group Capt. Bascombe
event1961 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Hungry Hill
Act like Copper John
event1947 star_border 5.4
top_panel_open
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Dear Mr. Prohack
Act like Arthur Prohack
event1949 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
The Magic Bow
Act like Luigi Germi
event1946 star_border 5.3
top_panel_open
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Isn't Life Wonderful!
Act like Charles, the boy's father
event1954 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
Act like Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
event1959 star_border 5.9
top_panel_open
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
A Man Could Get Killed
Act like Sir Huntley Frazier
event1966 star_border 3.8
top_panel_open
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
I Believe in You
Act like Henry Phipps
event1952 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
His Excellency
Act like Sir James Kirkman
event1952 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
Petticoat Pirates
Act like C-in-C
event1961 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
Captain Boycott
Act like Capt. Charles C. Boycott
event1947 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Heavens Above!
Act like Archdeacon Aspinall
event1963 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Happy Is the Bride
Act like Arthur Royd
event1958 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
The Brain
Act like Stevenson
event1962 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
The Magnificent Two
Act like British Ambassador
event1967 star_border 3.1
top_panel_open
Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.
Guns at Batasi
Act like Fletcher
event1964 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
The Amorous Prawn
Act like Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam
event1962 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
A Cuckoo in the Nest
Act like Claude Hickett
event1933 star_border 5
top_panel_open
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
Dirty Work
Act like Gordon Bray
event1934
top_panel_open
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
The Navy Lark
Act like Cmdr. Stanton
event1959 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
The Woman in the Hall
Act like Sir Halmar Barnard
event1947 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Tony Draws a Horse
event1950
top_panel_open
The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by their young son Tony.
Jack of All Trades
Act like Sir Chas. Darrington
event1936 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
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.
Me and Marlborough
Act like Colonel of the Greys
event1935 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Little Friend
Act like Mason
event1934 star_border 3.5
top_panel_open
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
The Chiltern Hundreds
Act like Benjamin Beecham
event1949 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
Her Last Affaire
Act like Sir Arthur Harding
event1935
top_panel_open
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death.
Dishonour Bright
Act like Vincent Crane
event1936
top_panel_open
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
Lady in Danger
Act like Piker
event1934 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
Under Your Hat
Act like Sir Jeffrey Arlington
event1940 star_border 5.3
top_panel_open
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Under Capricorn
Act like The Governor
event1949 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal.
The Golden Cage
event1933
top_panel_open
'Girl marries rich man but still loves poor hotel clerk.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Act like Inquiry Chairman
event1959 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Foreign Affaires
Act like Lord Wormington
event1935
top_panel_open
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
Follow That Horse!
event1960
top_panel_open
A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies.
Ships with Wings
Act like German Air Marshal
event1941 star_border 4
top_panel_open
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
The Silver Spoon
Act like Trevor
event1934
top_panel_open
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
The Office Wife
Act like Lawrence Bradley
event1934
top_panel_open
“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI.
Oh! What a Lovely War
Act like Sir John
event1969 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
The Guv'nor
Act like Bank Director
event1935 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
The Magic Box
Act like 1st Platform Man
event1952 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
It's Great to be Young!
Act like Frome, Headmaster
event1956 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
The Weaker Sex
Act like Geoffrey Radcliffe
event1948 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Dark Journey
Act like Captain Of Q-Boat
event1937 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
True as a Turtle
Act like Dudley Partridge
event1957 star_border 7
top_panel_open
Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
A Study in Terror
Act like Prime Minister
event1965 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
The First Gentleman
Act like The Prince Regent
event1948 star_border 6
top_panel_open
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Act like The Mayor
event1965 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Lady L
Act like Sir Percy
event1965 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
Men of Yesterday
event1936
top_panel_open
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Act like Self (archive)
event2002
top_panel_open
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
It Might Be You
Act like Dr. Smith
event1938
top_panel_open
This is a charity promotional film about Papworth Village TB sanatorium.
The Avengers
Act like Glover (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
Studio One
Act like Dr. Hans Hojda (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 4.7
top_panel_open
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
The Saint
Act like Lord Gillingham (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like The Lawyer (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Aquanauts
Act like Dr. Cattermole (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season. The series stars Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate and Ron Ely.
Sherlock Holmes
(1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
Robert Montgomery Presents
Act like Sir Simon de Canterville (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
Citizen James
Act like Himself (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser appearing in early episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the "Sidney Balmoral James" and "Bill Kerr, the dim-witted Australian" roles that they had played in Hancock's Half Hour.
The first series was set around 'Charlie's Nosh Bar', a cafe in Soho, and centred around Sid's get-rich-quick schemes. He is helped by "Billy the Kerr" and quite often frustrated by the local bookmaker Albert Welshman. Liz Fraser played Sid's long-suffering girlfriend who has been waiting for seven years for Sid to set the date.
Changes were made to the format after the first series. Sid James' character was changed to be something of a people's champion, campaigning for social justice. Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser departed and Sidney Tafler played a different character: Charlie Davenport. The location switched from Soho to Sid and Charlie sharing a house.
Later episodes were written by then Morecambe & Wise writers Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down