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Timbuctoo (1933)
Character: Benedict Tichbourne
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Lend Me Your Wife (1935)
Character: Tony Radford
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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This Week of Grace (1933)
Character: Lord Clive Swinford
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Character: Logan
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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Great Stuff (1933)
Character: Archie Brown
A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
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The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
Character: Carmichael
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
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French Leave (1930)
Character: Lt. George Graham
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
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Watch Beverly (1932)
Character: Victor Beverly
A British diplomat becomes entangled with a ring of international criminals.
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It’s Not Cricket (1937)
Character: Henry
“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
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Side Street Angel (1937)
Character: Boscomb
“Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
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The Compulsory Wife (1937)
Character: Rupert Sinclair
“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends. The hosts are delayed and so the guests remain unattended. A burglar breaks in and ensuing complications compel the girl to pose as a wife.” - BFI.
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The Shadow (1933)
Character: Reggie Ogden
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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Death on the Set (1935)
Character: Cayley Morden / Charlie Marsh
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
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King of the Ritz (1933)
Character: Teddy Smith
While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.
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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
Character: Mr Wilson
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
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The Flying Fool (1931)
Character: Vincent Floyd
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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Twelve Good Men (1936)
Character: Charles Drew
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
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Three Witnesses (1935)
Character: Leslie Trent
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
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Rich and Strange (1931)
Character: Fred Hill
After receiving an advance inheritance, a bored London couple set off on a world cruise hoping to rejuvenate their marriage and escape their dull routine. But newfound wealth and freedom only expose deeper cracks in their relationship, as each becomes infatuated with someone else. Their journey through exotic ports and mounting disillusionment ultimately brings them face to face with the fragility—and resilience—of love.
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The Voice of Merrill (1952)
Character: Ronald Parker
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Rodney Fleming
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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Helter Skelter (1949)
Character: Lord Bruce Carlton
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Character: Valet
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
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The Ghost Camera (1933)
Character: John Gray
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
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Nothing Barred (1961)
Character: Parson
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
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The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Character: The Doctor (uncredited)
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
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Take a Chance (1937)
Character: Archie Burton
Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
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The Man Outside (1933)
Character: Harry Wainwright
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
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School for Husbands (1937)
Character: Geoffrey Carter
A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.
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