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Toff and Fingers (1960)
Character: Perkins
Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware. The pair pose as a General and his batman looking their next job but the warm welcome, from the locals, makes them have second thoughts.
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The Three Maxims (1936)
Character: Cafe Proprietor
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in love with Pat.
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The Agitator (1945)
Character: Butler (uncredited)
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
Character: Bailiff
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
Character: Lord Doverhouse
A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
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He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
Character: Butler
George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then cooking the results of a government sponsored housing survey.
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The Echo Murders (1945)
Character: Col. Wills
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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Gaol Break (1936)
Character: N/A
“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American family's son who was kidnapped years back. He breaks jail to rescue his son but after seeing how happy his son will be with the family, he renounces his claim to boy and returns to finish his sentence in jail.” - BFI.
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The Shadow (1933)
Character: Wallis
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
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Three's Company (1953)
Character: Mr. Smythe
Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ...". "The Surgeon", "Take A Number" and "The Scream".
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Victory Wedding (1944)
Character: Mr Clark
A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.
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The Trojan Brothers (1946)
Character: P.C. Graves
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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Mistaken Identity (1942)
Character: Mr. Edward Benson
A booking clerk is dismissed after a mistake, and confused with a millionaire in London.
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I Didn't Do It (1945)
Character: Erasmus Montague
Gormless George Trotter moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery!
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Kate Plus Ten (1938)
Character: Detective
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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The Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: Works Manager
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Somewhere on Leave (1943)
Character: Butler
Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.
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Time Flies (1944)
Character: Burleigh (uncredited)
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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Love Story (1944)
Character: Prospero
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
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Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Character: Truscott
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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Who Done It? (1956)
Character: Stage-Door Keeper (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 Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: 1st Arresting Policeman
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
Character: Doctor at Diggings
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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The Ladykillers (1955)
Character: Station Master (uncredited)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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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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You Pay Your Money (1957)
Character: Briggs
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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So Evil My Love (1948)
Character: Rogers
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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The Goose Steps Out (1942)
Character: Member of the General Staff
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 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Character: Club Porter (1942)
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Traitor Spy (1939)
Character: Hawker
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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Perfect Strangers (1945)
Character: ARP Warden
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Character: Burroughs' Butler
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
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Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Character: Asylum Doctor
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
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The Wicked Lady (1945)
Character: Elderly Squire (uncredited)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Character: N/A
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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The Sound Barrier (1952)
Character: Factor
A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
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Prison Breaker (1936)
Character: Jackman
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
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