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Innocent Sinners (1958)
Character: Mr Isbister
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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Spring Handicap (1937)
Character: Postman
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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They Take the High Road (1960)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.
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Achilles Heel (1973)
Character: Mr Bennett
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
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Neutral Port (1940)
Character: N/A
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Pity About the Abbey (1965)
Character: Sir Gregory Devlin
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Character: Judge
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Character: Sarge the Doorman (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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Tawny Pipit (1944)
Character: McDougall
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
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The Big Chance (1957)
Character: Mr. Jarvis
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Character: Grandpa Smith
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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Poison Pen (1939)
Character: Dr. Sloane
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Fragment of Fear (1970)
Character: Uncle Stanley
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Brief Ecstasy (1937)
Character: Director of Steel Company (uncredited)
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
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The 39 Steps (1935)
Character: Audience Member at Political Meeting (uncredited)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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Quatermass 2 (1957)
Character: E. J. Macleod
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Character: Old Shepherd
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.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Character: Duncan
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.
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The Bridal Path (1959)
Character: Angus
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Character: Book Person: 'Weir of Hermiston' (uncredited)
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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Green for Danger (1946)
Character: Porter
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Manuela (1957)
Character: Ferguson
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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Baffled! (1973)
Character: Theatre Doorman
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
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A City Reborn (1945)
Character: N/A
Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.
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The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
Character: Donald Sloan
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
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The 'Maggie' (1954)
Character: The Constable
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Character: Airline Doctor
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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The Kidnappers (1953)
Character: Andrew McCleod
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
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