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The Desperate Women (1955)
Character: Eddie
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
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The Agitator (1945)
Character: Taylor
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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Born of the Sea (1949)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the lifeboat crew.
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The Night Comes Too Soon (1948)
Character: N/A
When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman's late wife, and her lover, whom the sailor had shot.
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The Plank (1967)
Character: Old Man
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
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Vote for Huggett (1949)
Character: Chairman of the First Meeting (uncredited)
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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Cup-Tie Honeymoon (1948)
Character: Nobby Clarke
Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.
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The Echo Murders (1945)
Character: Preston
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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A Window in London (1940)
Character: Hotel Manager
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
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Men Without Honour (1939)
Character: Fane
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
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Under a Cloud (1937)
Character: Gambler on Ship
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
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His Majesty & Co. (1935)
Character: Sam Bloom
John, holidaying in the Ruritanian principality of Poldavia, falls for Princess Sandra. Returning to Britain, he meets not only the princess but her parents. As the King is a wine expert and the Queen a decent cook, they get together to open a restaurant, where John can also sing at table.
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The Wife of General Ling (1937)
Character: Doctor
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
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A Christmas Carol (1950)
Character: Gentleman of the Stock Exchange
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Off the Dole (1935)
Character: Music Shop Manager
Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.
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Three Hats for Lisa (1965)
Character: Cinema Caretaker
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Gluckstein
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
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The Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: Ticket Inspector (uncredited)
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Rebecca (1947)
Character: William Tabb
Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947.
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Return of a Stranger (1937)
Character: Mr. Van Der Geun
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
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Trottie True (1949)
Character: Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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The Challenge (1938)
Character: A Ropemaker
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Bailiff
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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The Mudlark (1950)
Character: Broom
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
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The Upturned Glass (1947)
Character: Lorry Driver
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
Character: Jenkins
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
Character: Hotel Porter (uncredited)
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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Brief Ecstasy (1937)
Character: Coleman
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Miner at Rescue
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Man on the Run (1949)
Character: Barge Captain Sweeney
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Weisskopf (uncredited)
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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No Limit (1935)
Character: Turner
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Character: The Vet, Dr. Weaver
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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Wanted for Murder (1946)
Character: Head Park Keeper
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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State Secret (1950)
Character: Clubman
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
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I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Character: Guest at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
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Fire Over England (1937)
Character: Lord Amberley
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)
Character: Donald Urquhart
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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Trunk Crime (1939)
Character: The Landlord
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
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Appointment with Crime (1946)
Character: Mr. Quilp
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
Character: Chief Warder
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Jungle Street (1960)
Character: Old Bill
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.
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Miranda (1948)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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Hue and Cry (1947)
Character: Watchman
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
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Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954)
Character: Tweest
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
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Stage Fright (1950)
Character: 3rd Chauffeur (uncredited)
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Treasure Island (1950)
Character: Williams
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Dear Murderer (1947)
Character: Doctor
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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Escape Route (1952)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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