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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)
Character: Warden
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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Much Too Shy (1942)
Character: N/A
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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The Star Reporter (1931)
Character: Colonel
Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to Lady Susan Loman in the hope of witnessing high-society goings-on which he can use in a feature article he is planning.
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Spring Handicap (1937)
Character: Police Constable
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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Partners in Crime (1942)
Character: N/A
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
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The Echo Murders (1945)
Character: Van Schuster
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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Night Watch (1941)
Character: ARP Warden
Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.
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Somewhere on Leave (1943)
Character: Capt. Delvaine
Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.
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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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Time Flies (1944)
Character: (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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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Character: Corporal
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Dreaming (1944)
Character: N/A
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
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Warn That Man (1943)
Character: Police Inspector
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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The Squeaker (1937)
Character: Police Inspector (uncredited)
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Shipyard Sally (1939)
Character: Receptionist at Argyle Club
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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Headline (1943)
Character: Senior Employee at Jeweller's Shop (uncredited)
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Character: Officer Steele of the Bow Street Runners
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
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The Peterville Diamond (1943)
Character: Second Detective Inspector
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
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English Without Tears (1944)
Character: Footman (uncredited)
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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Ask a Policeman (1939)
Character: Revenue Officer
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
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Tower of Terror (1941)
Character: N/A
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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Band Waggon (1940)
Character: Saboteur (uncredited)
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
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