|
|
|
Mister Cinders (1934)
Character: Henry Kemp
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
|
|
|
The Shipbuilders (1943)
Character: McWain
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
|
|
|
Little Friend (1934)
Character: Grove
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
|
|
|
The End of the Road (1954)
Character: Old 'Mick-Mack'
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
|
|
|
It's a Boy (1934)
Character: Publisher
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
|
|
|
Make Me an Offer! (1954)
Character: Abe Sparta
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
|
|
|
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
Character: Lochaye
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
|
|
|
|
|
Wanted! (1937)
Character: Uncle Mart
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
|
|
|
|
Don Chicago (1945)
Character: Bugs Mulligan
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
|
|
|
The Improper Duchess (1936)
Character: Milton Lee
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
|
|
|
|
Excess Baggage (1933)
Character: inspector Toucan
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
|
|
|
No Funny Business (1933)
Character: Mr Potterton
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
|
|
|
Catch as Catch Can (1937)
Character: Al Parson
Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings. After Leyland falls for reluctant smuggler Barbara Standish, he convinces her to return with him to France with her cache of diamonds. But she is unaware of a network of thieves onboard their ship, competing against each other to make off with her jewels.
|
|
|
|
|
Who Was Maddox? (1964)
Character: N/A
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
|
|
|
The Old Man (1931)
Character: Rennett
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
|
|
|
Spring Song (1946)
Character: Cobb
The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
|
|
|
School for Secrets (1946)
Character: Sir Duncan Wills
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
|
|
|
|
The Trojan Brothers (1946)
Character: W.H. Maxwell
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
|
|
|
Heat Wave (1935)
Character: Captain
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
|
|
|
Me and Marlborough (1935)
Character: Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
|
|
|
Command Performance (1937)
Character: Al, Arthur's Manager
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
|
|
|
Gay Love (1934)
Character: Highams
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
|
|
|
Brigadoon (1966)
Character: Mr. Lundie
Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by all who find it.
|
|
|
|
The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)
Character: Rubin
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
|
|
|
The Frightened Lady (1932)
Character: Brooks
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
|
|
|
|
The Monkey's Paw (1948)
Character: Sergeant-Major Morris
The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.
|
|
|
The Bells Go Down (1943)
Character: District Officer McFarlane
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
|
|
|
Glamorous Night (1937)
Character: Angus MacKintosh
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
|
|
|
Third Party Risk (1954)
Character: Mr. Darius
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
|
|
|
My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Dr. Hammond
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
|
|
|
Princess Charming (1934)
Character: Baron Seegman
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
|
|
|
King's Rhapsody (1955)
Character: King Paul
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
|
|
|
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Character: Supt. Charles Matheson
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
|
|
|
Go to Blazes (1962)
Character: Judge
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
|
|
|
The Good Companions (1933)
Character: Monte Mortimer
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
|
|
|
Saint Joan (1957)
Character: Archbishop of Rheims
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
|
|
|
My Daughter Joy (1950)
Character: Sir Thomas McTavish
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
|
|
|
The Mudlark (1950)
Character: John Brown
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
|
|
|
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
Character: Professor Albert Kafer
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
|
|
|
The Black Rose (1950)
Character: Alfgar
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
|
|
|
Billy Liar (1963)
Character: Duxbury
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
|
|
|
So Evil My Love (1948)
Character: Dr. Krylie
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
|
|
|
The Cracksman (1963)
Character: Feathers
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
|
|
|
Warn That Man (1943)
Character: Captain Andrew Fletcher
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
|
|
|
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Character: Capt. Alstad
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
|
|
|
Dangerous Exile (1957)
Character: Mr. Patient
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
|
|
|
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
Character: Sir Joshua Varley
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
|
|
|
The Inspector (1962)
Character: De Kool
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
|
|
|
Zarak (1956)
Character: The Mullah
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
|
|
|
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
Character: Bishop
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
|
|
|
The Brothers (1947)
Character: Hector Macrae
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
|
|
|
6.5 Special (1958)
Character: Himself
A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.
|
|
|
Abandon Ship (1957)
Character: Mr. Wheaton
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.
|
|
|
Theatre Royal (1943)
Character: Clement J. Earle
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
|
|
|
Hand in Hand (1961)
Character: Mr. Pritchard
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
|
|
|
The Edge of the World (1937)
Character: James Gray
A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
|
|
|
People Will Talk (1951)
Character: Shunderson
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
|
|
|
Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Character: Dodo
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
|
|
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Character: Captain Sellers
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
|
|
|
Quo Vadis (1951)
Character: Peter
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
|
|
|
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Character: Ruairidh Mhór
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
|
|
|
Rockets Galore (1958)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
|
|
|
The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
Character: Uncle Jim
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
|
|
|
Five Golden Hours (1961)
Character: Father Superior
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
|
|
|
The Naked Earth (1958)
Character: Father Verity
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
|
|
|
|
|
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)
Character: Hamish MacPherson
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
|
|
|
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Character: Inspector Peters
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
|
|
|
La tempesta (1958)
Character: Count Grinov
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
|
|
|
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Character: The Marquis of Tullibardine
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
|
|
|
Ben-Hur (1959)
Character: Balthasar
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
|
|
|
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Character: David
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
|
|
|
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Character: Whist Partner
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
|
|
|
Kidnapped (1960)
Character: Cluny MacPherson
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
|
|
|
Rome Express (1932)
Character: Sam, Publicist
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
|
|
|
The Little Hut (1957)
Character: The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
|
|
|
49th Parallel (1941)
Character: The Factor
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
|
|
|
Undercover (1943)
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
|
|
|
|
|
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Character: Callahan
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
|
|
|
Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli (1961)
Character: Jacob
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
|
|
|
Ivanhoe (1952)
Character: Cedric
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
|
|
|
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
Character: Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
|
|
|
Cleopatra (1963)
Character: Titus
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
|
|
|
Orders Is Orders (1933)
Character: Dave
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
|
|
|
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Character: Old Enderby
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
|
|
|
Kangaroo (1952)
Character: Michael McGuire
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
|
|
|
Francis of Assisi (1961)
Character: The Pope
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
|
|
|
Thunder Rock (1942)
Character: Capt. Joshua Stuart
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
|
|
|
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Character: The Doll Maker
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
|
|
|
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Character: Senator
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
|
|
|
Treasure Island (1950)
Character: Capt. Billy Bones
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
|
|
|
|
|
West 11 (1963)
Character: Gash
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
|
|
|
|
|
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
Character: Col. Randolph
A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.
|
|
|
My Old Dutch (1934)
Character: Mo
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
|
|
|
Great Expectations (1946)
Character: Abel Magwitch
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
|
|
|
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
Character: Grandpa Stirling
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
|
|
|
Crook's Tour (1940)
Character: Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
|
|
|
They Met in the Dark (1943)
Character: Merchant Captain
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.
|
|
|
Trio (1950)
Character: Mr. McLeod
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
|
|
