
Birthday:
04-24-1888
Deathday:
01-19-1952 (63 years)
Birthplace:
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Act like Detective Inspector (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.4
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While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Dick Barton at Bay
Act like Professor Mitchell
event1950 star_border 3.6
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David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
Now Barabbas
Act like Jones
event1949 star_border 6.5
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A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Death Drives Through
Act like Mr. Lord
event1935 star_border 5
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The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Act like Inspector Blow
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Stop Press Girl
Act like Editor, Evening Comet
event1949 star_border 5.6
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A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
The Marriage of Corbal
Act like Gamekeeper
event1936 star_border 5
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The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
Pastor Hall
Act like Herr Veit
event1940 star_border 7.7
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The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Act like Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Dirty Work
Act like Customer With Umbrella
event1934
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Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
Brown on Resolution
Act like Kapitan von Lutz
event1935 star_border 5.8
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Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
Me and Marlborough
Act like Naylor
event1935 star_border 4.5
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A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
The Dawn Guard
Act like Bert
event1941
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Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.
The Four Just Men
Act like Prison Governor (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
King of the Damned
Act like Capt. Perez
event1935 star_border 6
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Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
Let George Do It!
Act like Schwartz, spy chieftain
event1940 star_border 5.8
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Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Ten Days in Paris
event1940 star_border 7.5
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Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Traitor Spy
Act like Otto Lemnel
event1939 star_border 4
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A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
The Common Touch
Act like McFarlane
event1941 star_border 7
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The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Secret Mission
Act like Monsieur Fayolle
event1942 star_border 4.3
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World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
The Office Wife
Act like Simms
event1934
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“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI.
Annie Laurie
Act like Alec Laurie
event1936
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British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
The Case of Gabriel Perry
Act like William Read
event1935
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An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
Checkmate
Act like Mr. Curtail
event1935 star_border 4.7
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A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
The Adventures of Tartu
Act like Dr. Willendorf
event1943 star_border 6.2
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British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
'Pimpernel' Smith
Act like Dvorak
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Scott of the Antarctic
Act like Chairman of Meeting
event1948 star_border 7.1
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The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Old Bill and Son
Act like Gustave
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Jeannie
Act like French Customs Man
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
Breach of Promise
Act like Saxon Rose
event1942
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Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
Enter the Queen
Act like Brood
event1930
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A short comedy film directed by Arthur Varney.
Oh, Mr. Porter!
Act like Superintendent
event1937 star_border 6.9
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Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Act like Mr. Mellows
event1931
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An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
Admirals All
Act like Adm. Westerham
event1935
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A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
Educated Evans
Act like Capt. Reid
event1936
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Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Much Too Shy
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
Dark Journey
Act like Captain of Swedish Packet
event1937 star_border 6.4
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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.
The Guinea Pig
Act like Alec Stevens
event1948 star_border 7
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A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Fame Is the Spur
Act like Suddaby
event1947 star_border 6.5
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A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Windbag the Sailor
Act like Captain of the 'Rob Roy'
event1936 star_border 7.7
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Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Train of Events
Act like District Superintendent
event1949 star_border 6.2
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A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Act like Merridew
event1945 star_border 7.1
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The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Act like Sir Frank Murchison
event1947 star_border 4.9
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On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Act like Officer
event1941
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Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
The Green Pack
Act like Monty Carr
event1934
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A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
They Met in the Dark
Act like Police Sergeant
event1943 star_border 6.3
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A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Thursday's Child
Act like Charles Lennox
event1943 star_border 5.3
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A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
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