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The Blue Peter (1928)
Character: Mr. Callaghan
After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.
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Lord Camber's Ladies (1932)
Character: Sir Bedford Slufter
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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Boy Woodburn (1922)
Character: Matt Woodburn
A horse trainer's daughter agrees to wed a broke banker if her foal wins a race.
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The Farmer's Wife (1941)
Character: Henry Coaker
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
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Captivation (1931)
Character: Colonel Jordan
A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
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Glamour (1931)
Character: Lord Belton
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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The Marriage Bond (1932)
Character: MFH
A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.
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The American Prisoner (1929)
Character: Squire Malherb
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
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Roses of Picardy (1927)
Character: Baron d'Archeville
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Let the People Sing (1942)
Character: Agent
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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Lost In The Legion (1934)
Character: Colonel
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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Mischief (1931)
Character: N/A
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
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So You Won't Talk (1935)
Character: Mr Fielding
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
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Somebody's Darling (1925)
Character: Sleeper
A squire's novelist son poses as a nurse to save an heiress from her guardian's private asylum.
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The Glad Eye (1927)
Character: Galipaux
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
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When We Are Married (1943)
Character: Mayor
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
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Dora (1933)
Character: Judge
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
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What the Butler Saw (1924)
Character: General Dunlop
Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in America. Complications arise when a guest at a hydrotherapy clinic is bitten by a parrot and, in a fit of pique, encourages the bird to bite every other male guest at the facility.
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Second Thoughts (1938)
Character: George Gaunt
A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
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When London Sleeps (1932)
Character: Colonel Graham
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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A Shot in the Dark (1933)
Character: Peter Browne
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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The Warren Case (1934)
Character: Sir Richard Clavering
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
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London Melody (1937)
Character: General Taplow
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
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Sally Bishop (1923)
Character: Landlord
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
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The Bigamist (1921)
Character: Richard Carruthers
Pamela (Duke) and Herbert Arnott (Royce) have been happily married for five years and have had two children. On the day of their wedding anniversary, Pamela receives a letter from another woman signed Lucy Arnott which states that she is the legal wife of Herbert.
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The Starlit Garden (1923)
Character: Col Grangerson
In Italy, a ward wins her affianced guardian by saving him from a rival's knife.
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The Great Gay Road (1920)
Character: Sir Crispin Vickrey
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.
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Eugene Aram (1924)
Character: Cpl. Bunting
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Lily of Killarney (1934)
Character: Lord Kenmore
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
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Fox Farm (1922)
Character: Sam Wetherell
A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
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The Persistent Lovers (1922)
Character: Duke of Harborough
A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.
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The Cardinal (1936)
Character: Bramante
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Character: Sir John Cope
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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A Maid of the Silver Sea (1922)
Character: Old Tom Hamon
A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
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Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
Character: Menkenburg
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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Self Made Lady (1932)
Character: Duke of Alchester
Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.
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The Crouching Beast (1935)
Character: N/A
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Character: French innkeeper (Brogard)
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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Shipyard Sally (1939)
Character: Staplefield
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.
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Too Many Crooks (1930)
Character: The Man Upstairs
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
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Owd Bob (1938)
Character: Mr. Parker
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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The Pointing Finger (1933)
Character: Lord Edensore
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
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Love on the Dole (1941)
Character: Pawnbroker
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Jamaica Inn (1939)
Character: Lord Ringwood
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
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The Way Ahead (1944)
Character: Old Chelsea Soldier
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Character: Colonel Barlow
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
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The Fake (1927)
Character: Hesketh Pointer, MP
'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Character: Sir Evan Nepean
In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.
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Vintage Wine (1935)
Character: Pierre
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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