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I Can Destroy the Sun (1958)
Character: Lloyd Crichton
Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?
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Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert (1975)
Character: Henry Errington
1799: George, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of mad King George III, awaits the Pope's judgement on his marriage to the twice-widowed Mrs. Fitzherbert.
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Night Conspirators (1962)
Character: Franz Von Markheim
An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler...
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The Wild Duck (1971)
Character: Old Lieutenant Ekdal
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
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The Story of Shirley Yorke (1949)
Character: Dr. Bruce Napier
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
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All That Glitters (1936)
Character: Taylor
A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
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I Have Been Here Before (1949)
Character: Oliver Farrant
Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?
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Ghost Ship (1952)
Character: Prof. Martineau / Mansel
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
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And the Same to You (1960)
Character: Archdeacon Pomphret
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.
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Hammer the Toff (1952)
Character: Linnett
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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The Naked Sun (1969)
Character: Quemot
Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a planet where physical proximity is taboo but nudity is not.
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Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
Character: Berkeley Reckitt
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)
Character: Sir Colenso Ridgeon
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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Nothing But the Night (1973)
Character: Lord Fawnlee
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
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The Constant Husband (1955)
Character: Secretary
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
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The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Character: Unnamed Character
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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Emergency Call (1952)
Character: Dr. Braithwaite
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
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Walk's End (1966)
Character: Dr. Saint
Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe. However, he is suspiciously vague about the treatment that goes with it.
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Q Planes (1939)
Character: Pilot
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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The Longest Day (1962)
Character: Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay (uncredited)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Character: Infantry General at Field Briefing (uncredited)
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
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