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The Calendar (1948)
Character: Lord Inspond
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
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The Unholy Quest (1934)
Character: Prof. Sorotoff
A mad doctor attains the dead body of a racketeer who was recently murdered by a rival mobster. The doctor has a bizarre and sinister experiment in mind...he intends to use the corpse as a vessel to resurrect one of the Knights Templar from the time of the Christian Crusades.
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He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
Character: Councillor Oxbold
George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then cooking the results of a government sponsored housing survey.
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It's That Man Again (1943)
Character: C.B. Cato
Lunatic British comedy about a small town mayor who finds himself the owner of a broken-down London theatre and acting school. Insanity run amok.
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Little Waitress (1932)
Character: John Farrell
A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Character: Maj. Wrigley in 1854
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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The Gentle Sex (1943)
Character: Staff Officer (uncredited)
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Unpublished Story (1942)
Character: George Roddington
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Bedelia (1946)
Character: Capt. McKelvey
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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The Years Between (1946)
Character: Selection Committee Member (uncredited)
After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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Yellow Canary (1943)
Character: Major Fothergill
In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.
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Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
Character: Magistrate
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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