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Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
Character: Bill Biggles
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
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Captain Bill (1935)
Character: Bill
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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The Pride of the Force (1933)
Character: Bill / Bob Porter
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
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The Middle Watch (1940)
Character: Marine Ogg
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
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The Outcast (1934)
Character: Bill Potter
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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The Last Coupon (1932)
Character: Bill Carter
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Doctor's Orders (1934)
Character: Bill Blake
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
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A Political Party (1934)
Character: Bill Smithers
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
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Lost In The Legion (1934)
Character: Bill
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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Boys Will Be Girls (1938)
Character: Bill Jenkins
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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Kiss Me Sergeant (1930)
Character: Bill Biggles
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
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Poor Old Bill (1931)
Character: Bill
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
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One Good Turn (1936)
Character: Bill Parsons
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
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My Wife's Family (1941)
Character: Policeman
A farce concerning the attempts of a naval officer to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing mother-in-law, and cope with a former girlfriend at the same time.
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Front Line Kids (1942)
Character: Nobby Clarkson
Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
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What a Night! (1931)
Character: Bill Grimshaw
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
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What Do We Do Now? (1946)
Character: Taxi Driver
Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On (1931)
Character: Bill Smithers
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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