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Colonel Blood (1934)
Character: Colonel Blood
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Tin Gods (1932)
Character: Major Drake
A concert pianist loses his hearing but finds a new sense of purpose by helping others. A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer.
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Give Us the Moon (1944)
Character: Pyke
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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Her Reputation (1931)
Character: Henry Sloane
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.
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Doss House (1933)
Character: Editor
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses in the hopes of finding him there. A young journalist is sent by his editor to assist in the search with the aim of reporting on any interesting stories he may find among those seeking shelter that night in the local doss-house, and is eager to help with the arrest. Among the characters they encounter are a man who claims to have got away with murder, and an alcoholic former concert pianist.
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The Golden Cage (1933)
Character: N/A
'Girl marries rich man but still loves poor hotel clerk.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Rhodes of Africa (1936)
Character: Barney Barnato
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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Kate Plus Ten (1938)
Character: Sir Ralph Sapson
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Take My Tip (1937)
Character: Paradine
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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Ships with Wings (1941)
Character: Gen. Scarappa
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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O.H.M.S. (1937)
Character: Regimental Sergeant-Major Briggs
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
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Easy Money (1948)
Character: Manager
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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The Magic Bow (1946)
Character: N/A
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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The Song You Gave Me (1933)
Character: N/A
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
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Hearts of Oak (1933)
Character: N/A
A policeman recalls the events of the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918, and draws conclusions for Britain's peacetime policies.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Character: Lord Haslewood
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
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The Big Blockade (1942)
Character: Schneider
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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Action for Slander (1937)
Character: Sir Bernard Roper
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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The Dictator (1935)
Character: Sir Murray Keith
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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A Royal Divorce (1938)
Character: Talleyrand
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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The Blind Goddess (1948)
Character: The Judge
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
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The Fire Raisers (1934)
Character: Brent
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Non-Stop New York (1937)
Character: Sam Pryor
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Love on the Dole (1941)
Character: Sam Grundy
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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The Clairvoyant (1935)
Character: MacGregor (uncredited)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Character: Innsbach
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Tudor Rose (1936)
Character: Henry VIII
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Victoria the Great (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Lorna Doone (1934)
Character: Capt. Jeremy Stickles
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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The Guv'nor (1935)
Character: Barsac
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
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Quiet Wedding (1941)
Character: William Frederick Davenport Chaytor
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Cottage to Let (1941)
Character: John Forest
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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The 39 Steps (1935)
Character: Sheriff Watson
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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The Ware Case (1938)
Character: Skinner - the Jeweler
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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Quiet Weekend (1946)
Character: Adrian Barrasford
Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
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