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For Valour (1937)
Character: Hiccuping Judge
In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
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Hard Steel (1942)
Character: Jimpson
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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The Lash (1934)
Character: Mr. Charles
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
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Back-Room Boy (1942)
Character: McIntyre
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
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Much Too Shy (1942)
Character: Judge
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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Captain Bill (1935)
Character: Cheerful
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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Doctor's Orders (1934)
Character: Napoleon
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
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Boys Will Be Girls (1938)
Character: George Luff
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
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Wanted! (1937)
Character: Captain McTurk
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
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Music Hall (1934)
Character: N/A
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
Character: Joshua Trimble
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.
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The Roof (1933)
Character: Fritz Klein
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938)
Character: Emmanuel Legge
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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Road House (1934)
Character: Stage Manager
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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The Challenge (1938)
Character: Villager
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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My Song for You (1934)
Character: Opera House Secretary
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
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The Citadel (1938)
Character: Old Thomas (uncredited)
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Character: Landlord
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Character: Stephen Oakley
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
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Unpublished Story (1942)
Character: Mr. Robinson
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Union Committee Chairman
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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John Halifax (1938)
Character: Abel Fletcher
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
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Look Up and Laugh (1935)
Character: Malpas
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Pastor Hall (1940)
Character: N/A
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)
Character: Lord Arlington
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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The Ghost Train (1941)
Character: Ben Isaacs
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
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Cotton Queen (1937)
Character: Thompson
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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The Clairvoyant (1935)
Character: Juror (uncredited)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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Keep Fit (1937)
Character: Editor of The Gazette
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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Elephant Boy (1937)
Character: Hunter
In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.
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Scrooge (1935)
Character: Undertaker
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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Tomorrow We Live (1943)
Character: Boileau
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Character: N/A
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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