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The Cupboard (1960)
Character: Mr Jones
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1973)
Character: 2nd Innkeeper
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
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Michael Regan (1971)
Character: Pokey Allen
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.
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During One Night (1961)
Character: Constable
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.
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The Out of Town Boys (1979)
Character: Meikle
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.
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Operation Diplomat (1953)
Character: Harrison
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
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Track the Man Down (1955)
Character: 'Wild' Max
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent (1973)
Character: Cook
A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
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Dial 999 (1955)
Character: The Chief Inspector
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
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Murder She Said (1961)
Character: Hillman
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
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Send for Paul Temple (1946)
Character: Dixie
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
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The Blue Lamp (1950)
Character: Mike Randall (Uncredited)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Murder by Proxy (1954)
Character: Inspector Johnson
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
Character: Second Reporter (uncredited)
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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Up in the World (1956)
Character: Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
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36 Hours (1953)
Character: The Inspector
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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Another Shore (1948)
Character: D.O. Broderick
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
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Salute the Toff (1952)
Character: Benny Kless
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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The Black Rider (1954)
Character: Rakoff
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Character: Sergt. Smale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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The Square Ring (1953)
Character: Warren
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
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Women Without Men (1956)
Character: Bargee
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
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Just My Luck (1957)
Character: Racegoer in Sunglasses (uncredited)
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?
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Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Character: St John's Ambulance Man
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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The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Character: Murphy
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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The Man Without a Body (1957)
Character: Michel de Notre Dame aka Nostradamus
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. The business man decides to steal the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
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Escape (1948)
Character: Detective Penter
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
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Date with Disaster (1958)
Character: Det. Insp. Matthews
A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.
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Cross Channel (1955)
Character: W.L. Carrick
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. The smugglers use him, his boat and partner, "Soapy", to carry their goods back and forth across the English. During one of the trips, "Tex" is thrown overboard, but is picked up by a French fishing boat and the fisherman take him back to their village, Porte Soliare, where he meets Jacqueline. People who appear to be quite dead early on turn out to be not dead later on, and money and swag and goods keep changing hands with such regularity that, at one point, one guy is searching for something he already has (and doesn't know it), while another guy isn't searching for it because he thinks he has it...but doesn't.
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Pool of London (1951)
Character: Customs Officer Andrews
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Hungry Hill (1947)
Character: Sam Donovan
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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Noose (1948)
Character: Moggie
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
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