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The Woman with No Name (1950)
Character: 2nd Sapper officer
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
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All in Good Time (1964)
Character: Elton
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
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The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby (1996)
Character: N/A
He's back! Everyone's favourite big, bouncy, big blob (well how many do you know?) In his new guises, Mr Blobby is a complete hoot, hilariously bumping, bashing and bruising his way through life.
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A Room in Town (1970)
Character: Frank
A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
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Death Is a Number (1951)
Character: Alan Robert
A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse.
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She Always Gets Their Man (1962)
Character: Bob Conley
The longtime tenants at a London women's hotel decide to take action when the newest resident, a sexy young flirt, begins stealing everyone's boyfriends. Director Godfrey Grayson's 1962 British comedy stars Ann Sears, Sally Smith, Avril Edgar, Terence Alexander, Bernice Swanson, William Fox and Michael Balfour.
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The Spare Tyres (1967)
Character: Dennis Colville
Dennis is told by his wife to remove two old tyres from the garden of their new home. He tries various ways to dispose of them.
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The Five Ports (1957)
Character: Self - Commentator
A visit to the confederation of Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex, tracing their history.
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Hands of Destiny (1954)
Character: Ranald's Assistant
Real-life palm reader Josef Ranald helps people two determine their futures. Some sources claim this British film was never released, or even finished, until 1956 when American Ron Ormond acquired it and added a brief sequence about a girl hitchhiker and a psycho motorist, releasing it finally as The Eternal Question.
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The Corvini Inheritance (1984)
Character: Hammond
Unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed jewel that's being auctioned. Is he losing his mind or is the curse real?
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The Gentle Terror (1961)
Character: David
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.
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The Price of Silence (1959)
Character: John Braine
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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Number Three (1953)
Character: Maurice Crampton
A group of nuclear scientists face a moral dilemma when they discover that, as well as making electricity, their government also wants to make nuclear bombs with their products.
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The Laughing Prisoner (1987)
Character: Head of Channel 4
A funny remake of "The Prisoner" - with a 1980's twist to it 'The Laughing Prisoner' is a remake (or homage) of (to) the Kafkaesque 1960's television show 'The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan in the lead role. This time it is a successful television presenter (Jools Holland) who decides to quit at the height of his stardom. He is abducted from his apartment and brought to the village, where number 2 (a young Stephen Fry) is questioning him. The whole show has a cosy 1980's feel to it, with several bands from that period performing their music.
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The Monkey's Paw (1954)
Character: Herbert
Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.
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The One That Got Away (1957)
Character: R.A.F. Intelligence Officer
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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The Fast Lady (1962)
Character: Policeman on Motorcycle
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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All the Way Up (1970)
Character: Bob Chickman
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Character: George Lomax
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.
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Who Done It? (1956)
Character: Radio Show Official (uncredited)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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The Runaway Bus (1953)
Character: Pilot Peter Jones
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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The Internecine Project (1974)
Character: Business tycoon
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
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Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
Character: Peter Martin
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
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Ike (1979)
Character: Gen. Arthur Tedder
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)
Character: Mr. Lanchester
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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Only When I Larf (1968)
Character: Gee Gee Gray
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
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The Bulldog Breed (1960)
Character: Defending Counsel
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
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The Boy Who Never Was (1980)
Character: Major
The son of African diplomat is kidnapped and replaced by his double in an attempt to assassinate a VIP at a London conference.
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Mission: Monte Carlo (1974)
Character: Crane (archive footage)
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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Frankenstein (1984)
Character: Alphonse Frankenstein
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
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Bitter Harvest (1963)
Character: Andy
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
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Dangerous Cargo (1954)
Character: Harry
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
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Who Shot Alan B'Stard? (1990)
Character: Sir Greville McDonald
An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to politics and helps reinstate capital punishment—until the tables turn and he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit. This standalone special serves as the eighth episode of the series and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best British Comedy.
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Our Family Business (1981)
Character: Neils
A syndicate mob boss doesn't realize that his eldest son, Gep, has been informing to the police on the family's dealings in exchange for protection, while Gep's younger brother, Phil, a bank vice president, tries to separate himself from the family's business.
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The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
Character: Duke of Dorset
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Character: Lloyd
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Park Plaza 605 (1953)
Character: Hotel Manager
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
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The Mind Benders (1963)
Character: Rowing Coach (uncredited)
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
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Portrait of Alison (1955)
Character: Fenby
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
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What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Character: Frisby
A middle-aged banker picks up two young, open-minded women on his way to a convention and falls head over heels for one of them.
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The Intelligence Men (1965)
Character: Reed
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
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Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Character: Gen. Sir Harold Alexander
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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Breakout (1959)
Character: Farrow
For £1500, Chandler and his associates offer a prison break service.
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The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Character: Ship's Officer (uncredited)
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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Danger Within (1959)
Character: Lt. Gibbs
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
Character: Barman
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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The Long Duel (1967)
Character: Major
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
Character: Fenton Breedley (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
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Top Secret (1952)
Character: 2nd M.V.D.
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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The Square Peg (1958)
Character: Captain Wharton
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
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Claudine (1974)
Character: Teddy (uncredited)
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
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On the Beat (1962)
Character: Chief Superintendent Bert Belcher
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Character: Rupert
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani (1985)
Character: Lord Ravensworth
The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second rogue Time Lord, has plans of her own...
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Carry On Regardless (1961)
Character: Trevor Trelawney
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
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Waterloo (1970)
Character: Lord Uxbridge
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Don't Panic Chaps (1959)
Character: Lieutenant Babbington
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.
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