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Song of the Road (1937)
Character: Chairman
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
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The Fruitful Vine (1921)
Character: Sir Theodore Cannynge
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
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The American Prisoner (1929)
Character: Colonel Governor
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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Educated Evans (1936)
Character: Lord Brickett
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
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Separation Anxiety (1997)
Character: Family Unity Man 1
On a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television. The lives of several neurotic middle class couples are followed as they reflect on their relationships in the context of legalised divorce.
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Commissionaire (1933)
Character: Colonel Gretton
A Commissionaire is suspected of a robbery committed by his son.
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Guy Fawkes (1923)
Character: Radcliffe
Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
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A Woman Redeemed (1927)
Character: Colonel Maddox
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
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The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Character: General Rackham
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
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Out to Win (1923)
Character: Lord Altmont Frayne
A tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.
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Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (1940)
Character: Commissioner of Police
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
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Talking Feet (1937)
Character: Lord Langdale
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
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The Four Feathers (1921)
Character: Lieutenant Sutch
When a British army officer, Harry Faversham, resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure for service in the Sudan he is sent four white feathers of cowardice by his comrades and fiancee. In an attempt to redeem himself, Faversham travels out to the Sudan where he saves the lives of his former comrades.
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A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)
Character: Mr. Harvey
An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.
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Honeymoon for Three (1935)
Character: Herbert Denver
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
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Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
Character: The Duke
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
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