
Birthday:
03-24-1888
Deathday:
01-10-1939 (50 years)
Birthplace:
St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK
Biography
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Jameson Thomas (born Thomas Roland Jameson; 24 March 1888 – 10 January 1939) was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 and 1939.
In 1929 he starred in Piccadilly opposite Anna May Wong. At the time, Piccadilly was not well received, but has since been recognised as one of the best films of the late British silent era.
Thomas moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in minor roles in various films until his death. He played "King" Westley, the fortune-hunting husband/fiancé of Claudette Colbert, in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night.
Jameson Thomas (born Thomas Roland Jameson; 24 March 1888 – 10 January 1939) was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 and 1939.
In 1929 he starred in Piccadilly opposite Anna May Wong. At the time, Piccadilly was not well received, but has since been recognised as one of the best films of the late British silent era.
Thomas moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in minor roles in various films until his death. He played "King" Westley, the fortune-hunting husband/fiancé of Claudette Colbert, in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night.
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It Happened One Night
Act like King Westley
event1934 star_border 7.8
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A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Act like Mr. Semple (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Act like Dr. Anton Racine
event1935 star_border 6.9
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While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
The Farmer's Wife
Act like Samuel Sweetland
event1928 star_border 5.6
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Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Jungle Woman
Act like Stephen Mardyke
event1926 star_border 5.5
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Englishman Martin South (Eric Bransby Williams) is leading an expedition into the Dutch New Guinea hinterland to search for gold, being joined by George Mardyke (Jameson Thomas), who he thinks is his friend. The expedition is attacked by headhunters and Mardyke leaves Martin for dead so he can pursue the latter's fiancee, Eleanor (Lillian Douglas), the daughter of a plantation manager. Meanwhile, Martin is nursed back to health by native girl, Hurana (Grace Savieri), who falls in love with him and helps him escape from some angry natives. Hurana is bitten by a snake and dies, and Martin arrives back to civilisation in time to rescue Eleanor from Mardyke. Was partially filmed back to back on Thursday Island with 'The Hounds of The Deep'
Convicted
Act like Bruce Allan
event1931 star_border 4.5
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A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Piccadilly
Act like Valentine Wilmot
event1929 star_border 6.4
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A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
The Rising Generation
Act like Major Kent
event1928
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A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.
The House of Secrets
Act like Coventry
event1936 star_border 5.6
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Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
High Treason
Act like Michael Deane
event1929 star_border 5.8
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The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Beggars in Ermine
Act like James 'Jim' Marley
event1934 star_border 6.3
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John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
Sing Sing Nights
Act like Robert McCaigh
event1934 star_border 3.3
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A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
Extravagance
Act like Harrison Morrell
event1930 star_border 4
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Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.
Jane Eyre
Act like Charles Craig
event1934 star_border 4.9
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After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Lady Luck
Act like Jack Conroy / Voice of announcer at racetrack
event1936 star_border 5
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New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
A Lost Lady
Act like Lord Verrington
event1934 star_border 6.1
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A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Chu-Chin-Chow
Act like Omar
event1924
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In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
The Scarlet Empress
event1934 star_border 6.9
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During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
A Woman's Man
Act like Roger Pentley - Playboy
event1934 star_border 4
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A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Act like George Bradley
event1937 star_border 5.5
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An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
Souls at Sea
Act like Pelton (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
No More Orchids
Act like Prince Carlos
event1932 star_border 6.8
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Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Three Wise Girls
Act like Arthur Phelps
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
Stolen Sweets
Act like Barrington Thorne
event1934 star_border 3.3
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Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
The Lady in Scarlet
Act like Dr. Phillip J. Boyer
event1935 star_border 3.5
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When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
Bombay Mail
Act like Capt. Gerald Worthing
event1934 star_border 6
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In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Act like Damon Fenwick
event1932
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Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Mister Dynamite
Act like Carey Williams
event1935 star_border 6
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A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
The Curtain Falls
Act like Martin Deveridge
event1934 star_border 5
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
The Solitaire Man
Act like Inspector Kenyon
event1933 star_border 6.5
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An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Brief Moment
Act like Count Armand
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.
Girl Loves Boy
Act like Mack
event1937 star_border 4.5
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Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
The Feather
Act like Roger Dalton
event1929
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'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
The Phantom President
Act like Jerrido
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Night Birds
Act like Deacon Lake
event1930 star_border 2
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Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Elstree Calling
event1930 star_border 5.1
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A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Night Life in Reno
Act like John Wyatt
event1931 star_border 4.1
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A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Blighty
Act like David Marshall
event1927
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A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Coronado
Act like Carlton
event1935 star_border 3
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Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
The Last Outpost
Act like Cullen
event1935 star_border 6
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During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
The Invisible Man
Act like Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.5
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After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
The Moonstone
Act like Godfrey Ablewhite
event1934 star_border 4.4
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A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Act like Russell
event1937 star_border 6.4
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The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
The Apache
Act like Gaston d'Harcourt
event1925
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In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.
The Sins Ye Do
Act like Captain Barrington
event1924
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A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
Poppies of Flanders
Act like Jim Brown
event1927
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An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.
Chester Forgets Himself
Act like Chester Meredith
event1924
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Romantic and slapstick mishaps on a golf course.
Week-End Wives
Act like Henri Monard
event1929 star_border 8
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A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
The Devil Plays
Act like Harry Forrest
event1931 star_border 4.5
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A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
The Hate Ship
Act like Vernon Wolfe
event1929
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A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
Escapade
Act like John Whitney
event1932
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Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip looks up to John and while incarcerated maintained contact with him through a continental mailing agency. As John has no idea he was in prison, Phillip tells him that he has just returned from Japan.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Act like Hendrickson
event1935 star_border 6.6
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In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend.
The World Accuses
Act like Jerome Rogers
event1934
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When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
Chances
Act like Lt. Taylor (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.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Act like Jones (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4
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A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Decameron Nights
Act like Imliff
event1924
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A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
Death Goes North
Act like Robert Druid, alias Herbert Barlow
event1939
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Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Roses of Picardy
Act like Georges d'Archeville
event1927
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In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
The White Sheik
Act like Westwyn
event1928
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In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
The League of Frightened Men
Act like Michael Ayers
event1937 star_border 6
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Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Self Defense
Act like Jeff Bowman
event1932
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Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
A Successful Failure
Act like Jerry Franklin
event1934 star_border 4
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Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.
Parnell
Act like Judge Nanan
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.
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