Birthday:
05-26-1903
Deathday:
01-01-1973 (69 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
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The Ladykillers
Act like 'One-Round', alias 'Mr. Lawson'
event1955 star_border 7.3
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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.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Act like Flyn
event1948 star_border 6.2
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A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
The Old Dark House
Act like Morgan Femm
event1963 star_border 5.8
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An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Act like Karim
event1958 star_border 6.9
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When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
The Man Within
Act like Hake
event1947 star_border 5.7
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A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Someone at the Door
Act like Price
event1950 star_border 5
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A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
In the Wake of a Stranger
Act like Barnes
event1959
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An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Midnight Menace
Act like Socks, American Henchman
event1937 star_border 6.5
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When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
Assignment Redhead
Act like Yotti Blum
event1956 star_border 4.6
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An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Laughing Anne
Act like Nicholas
event1953 star_border 4.3
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Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
The Lady Craved Excitement
Act like Boris
event1950 star_border 5.2
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A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
A Tale of Five Cities
Act like Levinsky
event1951 star_border 4.9
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An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
Wild Boy
Act like Driver
event1934
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This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
A Kid for Two Farthings
Act like Bully Bason
event1955 star_border 6.3
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Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Things Are Looking Up
Act like Big Black Fox
event1935 star_border 6
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Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Gangway
Act like Shorty
event1937 star_border 7
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Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
The Squeaker
Act like Safecracker
event1937 star_border 5.2
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London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Abandon Ship
Act like Joe Woolsek
event1957 star_border 7.4
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After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Little Big Shot
Act like Big Mo
event1952 star_border 4.5
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Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?
Jericho
Act like Sergeant
event1937 star_border 5.8
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An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
The Crooked Billet
Act like Rogers
event1930
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'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
Girls of the Latin Quarter
event1960
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A young man inherits a fortune, but with a number of conditions attached.
Her Favourite Husband
Act like Angel Face
event1950 star_border 5.5
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While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Act like Cecil
event1952 star_border 6
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Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Atlantic
Act like Card-Playing Passenger
event1929 star_border 4.9
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English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Hidden Homicide
Act like Cliff Darby
event1959 star_border 4.6
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A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Good-Time Girl
Act like Smiling Billy
event1948 star_border 5.9
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Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Dancing with Crime
Act like Henchman Sid
event1947 star_border 6.1
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When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Act like Scorpi
event1945 star_border 6.3
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In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Sailors Three
Act like Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.2
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Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Once a Sinner
Act like Ticker James
event1950 star_border 6.5
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Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Crime Over London
Act like Klemm
event1936 star_border 6
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With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
State Secret
Act like Taxi Driver
event1950 star_border 6.5
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While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Interpol
Act like Second Bartender
event1957 star_border 6.4
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Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Helter Skelter
Act like Liftman
event1949 star_border 6.2
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A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
The Fast Lady
Act like Bandit
event1962 star_border 5.6
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A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Jumping for Joy
Act like Plug Ugly
event1956 star_border 6.5
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At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
The Echo Murders
Act like Carl
event1945 star_border 4.5
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Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Web of Evidence
Act like Roach
event1959 star_border 4.8
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A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Fiddlers Three
Act like Lictor
event1944 star_border 8.2
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Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
Doctor in Clover
Act like Ashby (Uncredited)
event1966 star_border 5.8
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Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
Surprise Package
Act like Nicky Canfield
event1960 star_border 5.8
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Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
The Buccaneers
Act like Noah (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.5
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The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
The Man In Room 17
Act like 'Kipper' Da Vinci (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 5.3
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The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman.
The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants.
The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
The Three Hostages
(6 ep.)
event1952
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An adaptation of the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan.
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