Birthday:
04-30-1892
Deathday:
12-01-1984 (92 years)
Birthplace:
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
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Murder!
Act like Jury Member
event1930 star_border 5.9
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When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Stage Fright
Act like Meek Little Man (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
The Organizer
Act like Luigi
event1963 star_border 7.5
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In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.
They Knew Mr. Knight
Act like Coggie Selby
event1946 star_border 5.7
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After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Talking Feet
Act like Lord Cedric Scattery
event1937
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An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Her First Affaire
Act like Prof. Hotspur
event1932 star_border 5.7
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A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.
Help Yourself
Act like Peter Ball
event1932
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British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
The Man from Toronto
Act like Vicar
event1933 star_border 4
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According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
Fascination
Act like Bertie
event1931 star_border 5.5
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Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
Crime on the Hill
Act like Tourist
event1933 star_border 6.5
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Look Up and Laugh
Act like Piano Assistant
event1935 star_border 4.5
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Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Almost a Divorce
Act like Detective
event1931
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'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
The Great Game
Act like Bultitude
event1930
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Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Radio Pirates
Act like Thos Turner, Undertaker
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.
Song of the Plough
Act like Archie
event1933
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'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
Send 'Em Back Half Dead
Act like Roland Peabody
event1933
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'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)
Dora
Act like Chemist
event1933
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'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Cheer Up
Act like Wilfred Harman
event1936 star_border 4.7
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An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
Innocents in Paris
Act like Bickerstaff
event1953 star_border 5.1
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Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
Thark
Act like Lionel Frush
event1948
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Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house she has bought from him, is haunted. Investigators and occupants spend a tense night searching for the spook.
Black Eyes
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
Asking for Trouble
Act like Capt. Edward Fortescue
event1942 star_border 6
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A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiancé, a big game hunter from Africa. Comedy.
Down River
Act like Ronnie Gordon
event1931
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A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
The Chance of a Night Time
Act like Swithin
event1931
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Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
Diamond Cut Diamond
Act like Reggie Dean
event1932
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One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
The Man at Six
Act like Joshua Atkinson
event1931
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A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Mischief
Act like Bertie Pitts
event1931
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When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
Out of the Blue
Act like Freddy
event1931
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Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Pyjamas Preferred
Act like Reverend Samson Sneed
event1932
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In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.
Two White Arms
Act like Bob Russell
event1932
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A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
The Bank Messenger Mystery
event1936
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A bank teller who believes he has been unjustly fired gets together with two professional thieves to rob the bank.
Treasure Hunt
Act like Clergyman
event1952 star_border 5.4
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Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Act like Third Male Friend (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
event1965 star_border 6.4
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Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
The Conquest of the Air
Act like Gentleman at Reception (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 4.2
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This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Raising the Wind
Act like Street Musician (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 6.6
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'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Golden Arrow
Act like Clergyman
event1949
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On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
The Naked Truth
Act like Man Who Lets Out Police Car's Tyre (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.5
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Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Hancock's Half Hour
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event1956 star_border 7.5
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.
Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.
The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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