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Save a Little Sunshine (1938)
Character: Assistant
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
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Into No Man's Land (1928)
Character: Happy
A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police after shooting one of his underworld associates, he enlists in the US Army and goes to fight in France during World War I. While in France, he serves alongside a young man who is in love with his daughter.
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Dandy Dick (1935)
Character: Wilkins
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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Old Mother Riley (1937)
Character: Briggs’ Butler
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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Mama Behave (1926)
Character: The Chase Butler
A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
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Let the People Sing (1942)
Character: Uncle Alfred
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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The Last Coupon (1932)
Character: N/A
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Old Spanish Customers (1932)
Character: Spanish customs officer
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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His Lordship Goes to Press (1938)
Character: N/A
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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Sweet Devil (1938)
Character: Police Constable
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
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Boys Will Be Girls (1938)
Character: Nolan
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
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The Umbrella (1933)
Character: Police Constable
Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
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Lucky Ladies (1932)
Character: Hector Ramsbottom
Two women win £130,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. They use their winnings to establish an oyster bar, but soon become the target of a phony count who attempts to swindle them.
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The Mayor's Nest (1932)
Character: Milkman
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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One Good Turn (1936)
Character: N/A
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
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The Middle Watch (1930)
Character: Sentry
'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Here's George (1932)
Character: Commissionaire
'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Meet My Sister (1933)
Character: Butler
'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
Character: Perkins
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
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The Hate Ship (1929)
Character: N/A
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
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The Man in the Mirror (1936)
Character: Porter
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
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The Flying Fool (1931)
Character: Hicks
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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Pearls Bring Tears (1937)
Character: Bankes
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Lucky Jade (1937)
Character: Rickets
Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the target of unscrupulous thieves.
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Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
Character: Policeman
Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!
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Me and Marlborough (1935)
Character: Soldier
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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The Dark Stairway (1938)
Character: N/A
“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.
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Those Were the Days (1934)
Character: Wyke
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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Feather Your Nest (1937)
Character: Police Constable
A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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For the Love of Mike (1932)
Character: Sullivan
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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The Deputy Drummer (1935)
Character: Curtis
Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
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The Circus Kid (1928)
Character: Skelly's Runner
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
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Suspense (1930)
Character: Cpl. Brown
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
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The King's Cup (1933)
Character: Crossley
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
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A Perfect Gentleman (1928)
Character: The Valet
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
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The Golden Web (1926)
Character: Butler
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
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Men Like These (1932)
Character: N/A
A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.
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That Certain Thing (1928)
Character: Valet
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On (1931)
Character: Warder Jackson
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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One Hour Married (1927)
Character: N/A
A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
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The Cowboy Kid (1928)
Character: Sheriff
Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.
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Letting in the Sunshine (1933)
Character: Jenkyns
A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
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Cheer Up (1936)
Character: Waiter
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.
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The Blood Ship (1927)
Character: Cockney Bouncer
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
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The Squeaker (1937)
Character: Minor Role
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).
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The Younger Generation (1929)
Character: Goldfish's Butler
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Sensation (1936)
Character: N/A
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
Character: Jake
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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The Fatal Warning (1929)
Character: Dawson
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.
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Keep Smiling (1925)
Character: Ryan's Butler
The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.
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Honeymoon for Three (1935)
Character: PC Smithers
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
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Queen of Hearts (1936)
Character: Constable
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925)
Character: Townsman
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
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Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
Character: Waiter
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
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Cotton Queen (1937)
Character: Shearman
The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Leave It to Me (1933)
Character: Beach
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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The Gorilla (1927)
Character: Butler
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
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Perfect Understanding (1933)
Character: Butler
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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Perfect Understanding (1933)
Character: Butler (Uncredited)
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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Victoria the Great (1937)
Character: N/A
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Two's Company (1936)
Character: Ives
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
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You Made Me Love You (1933)
Character: Bleak (uncredited)
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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Come on George! (1939)
Character: Police Constable Cronley
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
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Over the Garden Wall (1934)
Character: Podds
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair.
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Penny Paradise (1938)
Character: Uncle Lancelot
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
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Atlantic (1929)
Character: Telegraphist
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.
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It's a Bet (1935)
Character: Undetermined Role
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
Character: Policeman
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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