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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
Character: Secretary General
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
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La vie parisienne (1935)
Character: Don Joâo
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
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Tons of Trouble (1956)
Character: Sir Hervey Shaw
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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Operation Stogie (1962)
Character: General Tankard
Two cadets are set an outrageous and wacky initiation test to prove their suitability for officer training.
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Parisian Life (1936)
Character: Don Joao
Mendoza, who had an affair with the star of the original production of La Vie parisienne in 1900, returns in 1935 with his son and granddaughter. His granddaughter is engaged to a young Frenchman, but Mendoza's strait-laced and puritanical son initially forbids the marriage. The core conflict involves Mendoza and his old Parisian friends conspiring to change the son's mind and convince him to embrace the titular "Parisian life".
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The Chinese Puzzle (1932)
Character: Paul Markatel
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
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The Man from Chicago (1930)
Character: Detective-Inspector Drew
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Night in Montmartre (1931)
Character: Paul deLisle
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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Heaven Is Round the Corner (1944)
Character: John Cardew
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
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Dusty Ermine (1936)
Character: Swiss Hotelier-Gang Leader
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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The Briggs Family (1940)
Character: John Smith
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Character: Capt. Oates
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé (1936)
Character: Count de Verneuil
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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Inside the Room (1935)
Character: Pierre Santos
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
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Alibi (1931)
Character: Hercule Poirot
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
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The Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: Inspector Parker
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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Lisbon Story (1946)
Character: Major Lutzen
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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King's Rhapsody (1957)
Character: Vanescu
1957 BBC Television production of Ivor Novello’s musical featuring Vanessa Lee, reprising the role of Princess Cristiane which she took in the 1949 stage premiere at the Palace Theatre, London.
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The New Lot (1943)
Character: Soldier Talking to Corporal
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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The Seventh Survivor (1942)
Character: Captain Hartzmann
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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Law and Disorder (1940)
Character: Heinreks
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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Black Coffee (1931)
Character: Hercule Poirot
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
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The W Plan (1930)
Character: Captain of Military Police
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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Escape! (1930)
Character: The Vicar
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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The Big Blockade (1942)
Character: U-boat Captain
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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Surprise Package (1960)
Character: Count Krimbi, Aide to King Pavel II
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
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The Broken Melody (1934)
Character: Pierre Falaise
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
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As You Like It (1936)
Character: Le Beau
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
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Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
Character: Hercule Poirot
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
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On Secret Service (1933)
Character: Captain Larco
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Dangerous Exile (1957)
Character: Mr. Petitval
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
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Never Back Losers (1961)
Character: Col. Warburton
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Leopold Dryden
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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The Red Shoes (1948)
Character: Prof. Palmer
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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Seven Waves Away (1957)
Character: Edward Wilton
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Character: Ralston
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
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Rembrandt (1936)
Character: Marquis de Grand Coeur
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Father Brown (1954)
Character: The Herald
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Character: Sir John Kelly (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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Mimi (1935)
Character: Lamotte
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
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Sabotage (1937)
Character: Monocle Man (uncredited)
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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Champagne Charlie (1944)
Character: The Duke
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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Knight Without Armour (1937)
Character: Col. Adraxine
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
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The Naked Truth (1957)
Character: Minister with Heart Attack (uncredited)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Anna Karenina (1948)
Character: Col. Vronsky
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Character: Schulemberg - German Air Chief of Staff
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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Night Train to Munich (1940)
Character: Capt. Prada
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Dark Journey (1937)
Character: Dr. Muller
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
Character: Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Power
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
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Konga (1961)
Character: Dean Foster
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
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Under Your Hat (1940)
Character: Boris Vladimir
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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So Long at the Fair (1950)
Character: Police Commissaire
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Character: French Registrar
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Character: Judson
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
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