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Secret Venture (1955)
Character: Inspector Dalton
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
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Undercover Girl (1958)
Character: Ken Farrell
Nightclub employee Joan Foster assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
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Marry Me (1949)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
Character: Murray of Ellinbank
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
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Number Ten (1968)
Character: John Straker
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Nations.
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Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Character: Constable Charles Baker (uncredited)
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
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The Woman in Question (1950)
Character: Detective Lucas
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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The Red Beret (1953)
Character: Flight Sergeant Box
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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Who Done It? (1956)
Character: Police Sergeant at Uralian Legation (uncredited)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Character: U-Boat Commander
When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his warning to the Royal Navy is dismissed and he loses his post. With the German invasion of Norway soon after, Metcalfe returns, determined to uncover enemy operations and strike back against the occupiers. (Note: The film was released in the United States under the alternate title The Avengers (1942).)
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Take My Life (1947)
Character: Policeman Making Charge Statement (Uncredited)
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
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Violent Playground (1958)
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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Gandhi (1982)
Character: Court Reporter
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Waterfront (1950)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Character: Major Hughes
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Brothers in Law (1957)
Character: Mr. Johnson
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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Waterloo Road (1945)
Character: N/A
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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Highly Dangerous (1950)
Character: Police Sergeant at Customs Café (uncredited)
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
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The Foreman Went to France (1942)
Character: Official
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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Frenzy (1972)
Character: Sir George
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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It's Not Cricket (1949)
Character: MP #1
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
Character: Mr. Theobald - Accountant in Office (uncredited)
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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The Goddess of 1967 (2000)
Character: Barman
A rich, young businessman travels to Australia with the intention of buying a 1967 Citroën DS. Once he arrives, things do not go to plan, and he must drive the DS into the outback alongside a blind young woman in order to track down its seller.
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Heart of a Child (1958)
Character: Breuer
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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The October Man (1947)
Character: Det. Sgt. Troth
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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Street Corner (1953)
Character: Policeman Outside Jewellers
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
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The Demi-Paradise (1943)
Character: British Sailor
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
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The Goose Steps Out (1942)
Character: British Pilot
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Character: Hotel Receptionist
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Stop Press Girl (1949)
Character: Pub Landlord (uncredited)
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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The Way Ahead (1944)
Character: Soldier in Pub Talking to the Chelsea Pensioners (uncredited)
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Tommy Steele Story (1957)
Character: Paul Lincoln
A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.
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In Which We Serve (1942)
Character: Hollett
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Millions Like Us (1943)
Character: Tom
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
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Convoy (1940)
Character: German Captain
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Circus Friends (1956)
Character: Ranger
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Character: Bert Foreman
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
Character: Police Constable
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
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The Halfway House (1944)
Character: Doctor
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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Pool of London (1951)
Character: Detective in Pub (uncredited)
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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High Treason (1951)
Character: Ship's radio operator (uncredited)
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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