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Bleak House (1920)
Character: Bucket
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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Fires of Fate (1932)
Character: Abdullah
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
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The King's Highway (1927)
Character: Beau Nash
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Symphony in Two Flats (1930)
Character: Wainwright
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
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Glamour (1931)
Character: Edward Crumbles
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Roses of Picardy (1927)
Character: Uncle
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Reasonable Doubt (1936)
Character: N/A
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
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The Invader (1936)
Character: Cheeseman
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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Brother Alfred (1932)
Character: Prince Sachsberg
Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
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The Compulsory Husband (1929)
Character: Mr. Pilluski
A recently engaged girl invites her parents to meet her fiance. They learn that he also loves another woman.
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Cafe Mascot (1936)
Character: Dudhope
A young man discovers £1,000 in a taxi. The kindly man gives it to an impoverished Irish girl (Geraldine Fitzgerald) by investing it in her cafe, The Cafe Mascot.
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Don't Get Me Wrong (1937)
Character: Sir George Baffin
Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
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A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)
Character: Blinkhorn
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
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My Old China (1931)
Character: Moo Kow
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Love Habit (1931)
Character: Santorelli
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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It’s Not Cricket (1937)
Character: Sir George Harlow
“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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Good Night, Vienna (1932)
Character: Donelli
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
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Happy Ever After (1932)
Character: Commissionnaire
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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The Autumn of Pride (1921)
Character: George Pentecost
A man buys a farm to stop his rich father from evicting the farmer's daughter.
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The Rolling Road (1927)
Character: John Ogilvie
A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.
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Discord (1933)
Character: Mr. Moody
A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
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The Cabaret Kid (1926)
Character: Sullivan
A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
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I Adore You (1933)
Character: Louis B. Koenig
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
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Indiscretions of Eve (1932)
Character: Prince, Lord Peter's Butler
Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
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Feather Your Nest (1937)
Character: Randall's valet
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Yes, Mr. Brown (1933)
Character: Carlos
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
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The Little Damozel (1933)
Character: Papa Bertholdy
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
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Tesha (1928)
Character: Doctor
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.
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The Church Mouse (1934)
Character: Sir Oswald Bottomley
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
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Boadicea (1927)
Character: Catus Decianus
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
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The Yellow Face (1921)
Character: Jack Grant Munro
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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High Treason (1929)
Character: Delegate
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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The W Plan (1930)
Character: Proprietor
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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The Constant Nymph (1928)
Character: Sir Berkeley
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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Cash (1933)
Character: Hunt
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
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Bitter Sweet (1933)
Character: Herr Schlick
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love. As a young girl Sarah falls in love with Carl, a musician, and runs off with him to Vienna. They are happily wed and Carl earns a living conducting a small orchestra. Enter a certain Captain who sets his eye on Sarah and proceeds to shower her with his attentions, much to her dismay.
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Champagne (1928)
Character: The Manager
Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.
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After the Ball (1932)
Character: Albuera
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.
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The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Character: Pedro, Don Juan's Young Masseur
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Queen's Affair (1934)
Character: Diplomat
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
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Abdul the Damned (1935)
Character: Court Doctor
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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The Green Cockatoo (1937)
Character: N/A
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Character: Ogarev
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
Character: Dr. G. Wilberforce
Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
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Splinters (1929)
Character: Sergeant Miller
Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.
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