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Jury's Evidence (1936)
Character: Cyril
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.
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Old Mother Riley (1937)
Character: Edwin Briggs
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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Old Mother Riley, MP (1939)
Character: Archie
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
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Watch Beverly (1932)
Character: Patrick Nolan
A British diplomat becomes entangled with a ring of international criminals.
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Naughty Husbands (1930)
Character: Willy
'Convict dreams he runs marriage agency and tries to supply wife for man already married.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Blue Danube (1932)
Character: Companion
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated.
Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
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Marriage of Convenience (1960)
Character: Registrar
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
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His Lordship (1932)
Character: Hon. Grimsthwaite
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
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We’ll Smile Again (1942)
Character: BBC Man
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
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The Ware Case (1928)
Character: Eustace Ede
Eustace Ede, the unhinged brother of Lady Magda Ware, is discovered drowned in the lake of her country house. While most assume it to have been suicide, a detective inspector's persistence finally leads to the arrest of Magda's husband, Sir Hubert Ware. The subsequent murder trial turns into a major society scandal, and the strain on Sir Hubert's mind may prove too much for him whether he is found innocent or guilty....
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Rose of Tralee (1937)
Character: Frank
An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.
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Gangway (1937)
Character: Carl Freemason
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
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Seven Sinners (1936)
Character: Pilgrims of Peace Poet (Uncredited)
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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Modesty Blaise (1966)
Character: Under Secretary
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
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Evergreen (1934)
Character: Lord Shropshire
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
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Service for Ladies (1932)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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