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Down River (1931)
Character: Charlie Wong
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
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Adventure Ltd. (1935)
Character: Don Lorenzo / Montagu Phelps
A British adventure film directed by George King
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A Sailor Tramp (1922)
Character: The Cockney
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
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The Romany (1923)
Character: N/A
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
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Lord Camber's Ladies (1932)
Character: Old Man
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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Stranglehold (1931)
Character: Briggs
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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Brother Alfred (1932)
Character: Sydney
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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My Old Duchess (1934)
Character: Higgins
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
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East Lynne on the Western Front (1931)
Character: Fred
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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A Shot in the Dark (1933)
Character: George Yarrow
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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On the Air (1934)
Character: Vicar
Musical featuring radio and variety stars on holiday, who help a village vicar stage a local concert.
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Royal Eagle (1936)
Character: Albert Marshall
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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The Great Gay Road (1931)
Character: Backus
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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Cash (1933)
Character: Jordan
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 toolbox.
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Nell Gwyn (1934)
Character: (uncredited)
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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You Made Me Love You (1933)
Character: Father
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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Scrooge (1935)
Character: Old Joe
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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