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The Queen's Guards (1961)
Character: N/A
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
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It Started in Paradise (1952)
Character: Lord Chandos
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Bomb in the High Street (1961)
Character: Superintendent Halsey
Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
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The White Trap (1959)
Character: Dr. Hayden
Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Character: Maj. Wrigley in 1946
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Spy for a Day (1940)
Character: Captain Bradshaw
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
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Man from Tangier (1957)
Character: Rex
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
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She Shall Have Murder (1950)
Character: Maj. Stewart
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
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The Headless Ghost (1959)
Character: The Live Earl of Ambrose
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
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Radio Cab Murder (1954)
Character: Parker
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
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Impulse (1954)
Character: Freddie James
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
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House of Mortal Sin (1976)
Character: GP
Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
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The Big Switch (1968)
Character: Hornsby-Smith
Playboy John Carter picks up a woman in a discotheque and takes her home. When she is murdered and he is framed for the crime, he finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld plot.
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Runaway Railway (1965)
Character: N/A
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
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Life in Danger (1959)
Character: Jack Ashley
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
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Conspirator (1949)
Character: Raglan
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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The Four Feathers (1939)
Character: Lieutenant Willoughby
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Character: Fat Man in Bar
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
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The Sound Barrier (1952)
Character: 'Windy'
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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The Breaking Point (1961)
Character: Ernest Winlatter
A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
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