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The Dark Light (1951)
Character: Rigby
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.
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Castle in the Air (1952)
Character: Pettigrew
The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle
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Help Yourself (1950)
Character: Elderly Husband
Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.
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Laxdale Hall (1953)
Character: Old Villager
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
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Valley of the Eagles (1951)
Character: McTavis, ferry pilot
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Character: Reform Club Member (uncredited)
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.
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The City of the Dead (1960)
Character: Rev. Russell
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
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Where There's a Will (1955)
Character: Cagey
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Character: Grimes (as Norman Macowan)
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Heart of a Child (1958)
Character: Heiss
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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X: The Unknown (1956)
Character: Old Tom
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
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Kidnapped (1960)
Character: Tinker
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.
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Action of the Tiger (1957)
Character: Trifon's Father
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
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The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
Character: Jock Munro
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
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Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Character: Danny
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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Whisky Galore! (1949)
Character: Captain MacPhee
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and Angus MacPhail. The story—based on a true event, the running aground of the SS Politician—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing. The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, some of which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.
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The Boy and the Bridge (1959)
Character: Tugboat Engineer
A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up home there.
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