
Birthday:
11-16-1877
Deathday:
02-20-1962 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography
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Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats.
Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats.
Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Act like Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
event1931 star_border 7.3
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Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
Dracula's Daughter
Act like Police Sgt. Hawkins
event1936 star_border 5.9
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A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Platinum Blonde
Act like Smythe
event1931 star_border 6.7
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Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Mr. DePinna
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Act like Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
event1935 star_border 6.6
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When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
The Undying Monster
Act like Walton the Butler
event1942 star_border 5.7
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A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Act like Cleghorn, the butler
event1944 star_border 5.6
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A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Payment Deferred
Act like A Prospective Tenant
event1932 star_border 5.9
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Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
The Prince and the Pauper
Act like Archbishop
event1937 star_border 6.7
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Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Canyon Passage
Act like Clenchfield
event1946 star_border 6.6
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In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Lady for a Day
Act like Butler
event1933 star_border 7
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Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
That Forsyte Woman
Act like Nicholas Forsyte
event1949 star_border 5.9
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Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
That Hamilton Woman
Act like Rev. Nelson
event1941 star_border 7.1
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The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Right to Live
Act like Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
event1935 star_border 5.1
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A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
She Was a Lady
Act like George Dane
event1934
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Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
Love Affair
Act like Kibbee
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Act like Sisk
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Devil's Lottery
Act like Lord Litchfield
event1932
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Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Act like Burton
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Midnight Mary
Act like Churchill
event1933 star_border 6.9
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While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
The Key
Act like General C.O. Furlong
event1934 star_border 4.9
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A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Act like Dr. Lister
event1936 star_border 6.8
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A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Sunny
Act like Johnson
event1941 star_border 4.9
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Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
Tell No Tales
Act like Dr. Lovelake
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Five and Ten
Act like Hopkins (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.3
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John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
The Earl of Chicago
Act like Lord Chancellor
event1940 star_border 5.6
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A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Act like Prof. Bernard Goodman
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
British Agent
Act like Sir Walter Carrister
event1934 star_border 5.5
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In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Varsity Show
Act like Dean Meredith
event1937 star_border 6
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Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Cynara
Act like Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4.8
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A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
Captured!
Act like British Major General
event1933 star_border 5.6
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While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Hearts Divided
Act like Cambaceres
event1936 star_border 5
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Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Charley's Aunt
Act like Stephen Spettigue
event1930 star_border 5
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A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Grumpy
Act like Ruddick
event1930 star_border 4
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An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
The Light That Failed
Act like Doctor
event1939 star_border 6
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A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Menace
Act like Phillips
event1932 star_border 4.5
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A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
The Woman Between
Act like Barton - the Butler
event1931 star_border 5.3
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Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Remember?
Act like Butler Williams
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
The Right of Way
Act like The Siegneur
event1930 star_border 5.2
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Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
The Bachelor Father
Act like Larkin
event1931 star_border 6
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Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Fit for a King
Act like Count Strunsky
event1937 star_border 5
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Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
The Masquerader
Act like Brock
event1933 star_border 4.8
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A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
Father Brown, Detective
Act like Sir Leopold Fischer
event1934 star_border 6.5
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After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to both Leopold Fischer, who unknown to him is Evelyn's uncle, and Father Brown, in which he vows he will steal from them the ten diamonds that comprise the "Flying Star." Flambeau intends to give these diamonds to Evelyn. Father Brown, whose gold cross contains some of the Flying Star diamonds, is determined to meet Flambeau before he is arrested, to reform and redeem his soul.
Service de Luxe
Act like Butler
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Casanova Brown
Act like Charles, the Butler
event1944 star_border 6.3
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Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
If Winter Comes
Act like The Coroner
event1947 star_border 6.6
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The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
Mandalay
Act like Col. Dawson Ames
event1934 star_border 5.9
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Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Scotland Yard
Act like Lord St. Arran
event1930
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A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.
6 Hours to Live
Act like Baron Emil von Sturm
event1932 star_border 5
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A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
I Am Suzanne!
Act like Dr. Lorenzo
event1933 star_border 6.2
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A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Should Ladies Behave
Act like Louis
event1933 star_border 4.3
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A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
event1943
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Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.
Lovers Courageous
Act like Mr. Smith
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
Looking Forward
Act like Mr. James Felton
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Cardinal Richelieu
Act like Father Joseph
event1935 star_border 7.4
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The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Folies Bergère
Act like Monsieur Paulet
event1935 star_border 5.5
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An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Mary of Scotland
Act like Man (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.3
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The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Act like Purdy
event1942 star_border 7.2
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Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Spendthrift
Act like Beuhl - the Butler
event1936 star_border 5
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A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Act like Roget
event1931 star_border 5.9
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Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Give Me Your Heart
Act like Oliver Warren
event1936 star_border 6
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An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Gaslight
Act like Mr. Muffin
event1944 star_border 7.5
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A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Naughty But Nice
Act like Dean Burton, Winfield College
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
The White Angel
Act like Lord Raglan
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.
Pacific Liner
Act like Captain Mathews
event1939 star_border 5.2
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The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.
The Hardys Ride High
Act like Dobbs
event1939 star_border 6
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Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
Menace
Act like Skinner
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
We Live Again
Act like Official
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Act like British Chaplain
event1939 star_border 6.4
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British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Jalna
Act like Ernest Whiteoaks
event1935 star_border 4.8
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A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
Kidnapped
Act like Dominie Campbell
event1938 star_border 4.7
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Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Maid of Salem
Act like Jeremiah
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.
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Professor Howard
event1936
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Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Act like Bennett
event1942 star_border 4.8
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Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
The Black Arrow
Act like Bishop of Tisbury
event1948 star_border 5.2
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A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
Man About Town
Act like Hilton
event1932
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In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, blackmail and murder.
Week Ends Only
Act like Martin
event1932
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A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Act like Alfred Brunton, the butler
event1943 star_border 6.8
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During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Act like Father of Little Girl
event1935 star_border 6
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The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
The Sea Hawk
Act like Astronomer
event1940 star_border 7.2
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Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Vicar at St. Matthews (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.
Lady with Red Hair
Act like Divorce Judge (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Journey for Margaret
Act like Mr. Barrie
event1942 star_border 6.6
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An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
Mr. Skeffington
Act like Soames (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.
Forever and a Day
Act like Doctor
event1943 star_border 7.4
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In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Storm Over Bengal
Act like Sir John Galt
event1938 star_border 5.2
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
If I Were Free
Act like Burford-Gordon's butler
event1933 star_border 5
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A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.
Changing of the Guard
Act like Grandfather, the Colonel
event1936 star_border 1
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On New Year's Eve, a girl is told a story by her grandfather about his days in a military regiment; then, the girl dreams she's at the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Miracle in the Rain
Act like Ely B. Windgate
event1956 star_border 6.7
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Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Lucky In Love
event1929
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Michael O'More, an American who lives in Ireland with his uncle, a horsetrainer for the Earl of Balkerry, loves Lady Mary Cardigan, granddaughter of the Earl. He finds a rival in Capt. Brian Fitzroy, a rake who intends to buy the impoverished earl's castle and marry Lady Mary. After nearly killing Fitzroy in a brawl over Lady Mary, Michael flees to the United States. There he becomes financially secure when department store magnate Abe Feinberg offers him a job. Feinberg commissions Michael to establish a linen mill on the earl's estate. He and Mary, who is in the United States evading Fitzroy, return to Ireland and marry.
A Christmas Carol
Act like Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (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.
Captain Blood
Act like Lord Sunderland
event1935 star_border 7.2
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Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
To Be or Not to Be
Act like Gen. Armstrong
event1942 star_border 7.8
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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Double Door
Act like Mr. Chase
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
Riptide
Act like Bollard
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Love Letters of a Star
Act like Hotchkiss
event1936
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A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
His Butler's Sister
Act like Willebrandt
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
The Jury's Secret
Act like John, Butler
event1938 star_border 3
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A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Act like First Bobby
event1934 star_border 5.3
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Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
You Gotta Stay Happy
Act like Martin
event1948 star_border 6.5
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Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Hollywood Wonderland
Act like Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
A Study in Scarlet
Act like Malcolm Dearing
event1933 star_border 5.5
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In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Information Please
Act like Lt Eberhard
event1944
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Instructional military film that shows the many deceptive ways that Germans might extract valuable information from British prisoners-of-war.
Jealousy
Act like Rigaud
event1929
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Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who bought the shop for her.
Parnell
Act like W.H. Smith
event1937 star_border 4.6
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Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Millions in the Air
Act like Theodore
event1935
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The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
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