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Colonel Bogey (1948)
Character: N/A
A young Victorian couple spends time with the wife's aunt, who behaves as if her late husband were still alive, and his ghostly voice is heard.
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The Common Touch (1941)
Character: Detective Inspector
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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Hard Steel (1942)
Character: Richards
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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A Girl in a Million (1946)
Character: Attendant
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.
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Meet Sexton Blake (1945)
Character: Mario Carloni
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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Crime on the Hill (1933)
Character: Shooting Gallery Attendant
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
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Thunder on Sycamore Street (1957)
Character: Mr. Harkness
When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.
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The Voice Within (1946)
Character: 2nd I.R.A. Man
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
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Neutral Port (1940)
Character: N/A
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Character: Train Fireman (uncredited)
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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Time Flies (1944)
Character: American Cop (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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Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Character: English Sailor (uncredited)
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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Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
Character: Ironside Thug
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: 2nd 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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The Next of Kin (1942)
Character: Mr. Palmer (uncredited)
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
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"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
Character: German Officer at Customs
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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Headline (1943)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Character: 2nd. Auxiliary Sentinel
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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Miranda (1948)
Character: On the Kiosk (uncredited)
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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The Gold Express (1955)
Character: George Phillips
Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.
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Portrait from Life (1948)
Character: Art Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Windbag the Sailor (1936)
Character: Second Detective
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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The Piper's Tune (1962)
Character: Martinez
A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
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Tower of Terror (1941)
Character: Albers
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
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49th Parallel (1941)
Character: Bob
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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Jassy (1947)
Character: Farm Worker at Meeting
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
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A City Reborn (1945)
Character: N/A
Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.
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Convoy (1940)
Character: Peacock - Wardroom Steward
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Cottage to Let (1941)
Character: German Agent (uncredited)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Dear Murderer (1947)
Character: Prison Warden
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
Character: Witness (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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Bataillon du ciel (1947)
Character: MacIntyre
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
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High Treason (1951)
Character: Policeman at Records Office (uncredited)
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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They Drive by Night (1938)
Character: Card Player at Billiard Halls (Uncredited)
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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Crook's Tour (1940)
Character: Manservant at Castle (uncredited)
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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