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I Spy (1934)
Character: Herr Doctor
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
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Song of the Road (1937)
Character: Mr. Bartholomew
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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Reasonable Doubt (1936)
Character: N/A
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
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The Queen's Husband (1946)
Character: Phipps
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.
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Where There's a Will (1936)
Character: Sir Roger Wimpleton
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Jack of All Trades (1936)
Character: Bank Director
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1939)
Character: Gen. Hogsley
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
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Home Sweet Home (1945)
Character: N/A
Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.
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A Political Party (1934)
Character: Sir James Barrington-Oakes
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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His Lordship Goes to Press (1939)
Character: General Tukes
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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Lost In The Legion (1934)
Character: Kaid
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
Character: H. G. Popplethwaite
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
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Busman's Holiday (1936)
Character: Mr. Bulger
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
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Darts Are Trumps (1938)
Character: Stephen Sims
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)
Character: Admiral Leopold Simcox
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
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Falling in Love (1934)
Character: Cummins
British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.
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What a Man! (1939)
Character: Sergeant Bull
Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement.
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Two's Company (1936)
Character: Otto Stump
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
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The Sky’s the Limit (1937)
Character: Lord Beckley
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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The Trojan Brothers (1946)
Character: Colonel Robbins
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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Pearls Bring Tears (1937)
Character: Mr. Duffield
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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O-Kay for Sound (1937)
Character: John Rigby
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
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The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
Character: Admiral
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
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Those Were the Days (1934)
Character: Mr. Bullamy
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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Everything in Life (1936)
Character: Sir Algernon Spindle
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
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Take My Tip (1937)
Character: Patchett
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
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The Good Old Days (1939)
Character: Randolph Macaulay
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances. A rival tavern informs the police and they have to pay a heavy fine. However, they find the money by rescuing a boy and getting the reward.
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Return to Yesterday (1940)
Character: Inspector
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
Character: N/A
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
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Young and Innocent (1937)
Character: Police Sergeant
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
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Bob's Your Uncle (1942)
Character: Maj. Diehard
Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.
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Pygmalion (1939)
Character: Second Bystander
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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The Gang's All Here (1939)
Character: Large Pompous Diner
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Owd Bob (1938)
Character: Sgt. Walter Musgrave
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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Queen of Hearts (1936)
Character: Solicitor
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Character: Councillor (uncredited)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Character: Mr. Portal
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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Freedom of the Seas (1934)
Character: Harcourt
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeble second-best, or will active service make a man of him?
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Under Your Hat (1940)
Character: Colonel Sheepshanks
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
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Calling the Tune (1936)
Character: Stubbins
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscrupulous record label boss Mr Gordon (Sam Livesey), who finally gets his comeuppance after one dirty trick too far against his rivals. If the film's love story is perfunctory, the real interest comes with watching performers of the day, from Henry Wood and his orchestra to George Robey and Charles 'the laughing policeman' Penrose laying down their recordings direct to record. And something very like a prototype laser disc makes a crucial appearance too.
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Everything Is Thunder (1936)
Character: Burgomaster
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
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