|
Shipmates o' Mine (1936)
Character: Captain Roberts
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
|
|
|
The Common Touch (1941)
Character: Father at School Cricket Match
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
|
|
|
Hard Steel (1942)
Character: Mr. Rowlandson
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
|
|
|
|
Make-Up (1937)
Character: Karo
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
|
|
|
|
Song of the Road (1937)
Character: Bristow
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
|
|
|
|
Keepers of Youth (1931)
Character: Gordon Duff
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
|
|
|
Prete, fai un miracolo (1975)
Character: Edgar
"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.
|
|
|
Where There's a Will (1936)
Character: Detective Collins
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
|
|
|
Spare a Copper (1940)
Character: Inspector Richards
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
|
|
|
The Midshipmaid (1932)
Character: Officer
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
|
|
|
The Lady Is Willing (1934)
Character: Butler
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
|
|
|
|
Night Alone (1938)
Character: Superintendent
Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
|
|
|
|
Ask Beccles (1933)
Character: Inspector Daniels
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Umbrella (1933)
Character: Governor
Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
|
|
|
Tons of Money (1930)
Character: Sprules
A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
|
|
|
|
Rodney Steps In (1931)
Character: Inspector
A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.
|
|
|
|
Love at Sea (1936)
Character: Police Inspector
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
|
|
|
|
Badger’s Green (1934)
Character: Thomas Butler
A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Man from Yesterday (1949)
Character: Judge
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
|
|
|
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Character: Chief Constable
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Puppets of Fate (1933)
Character: Inspector
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
|
|
|
The Shadow (1933)
Character: Detective Inspector Carr
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Music Hall (1934)
Character: Collins
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
|
|
|
|
Stepping Toes (1938)
Character: Representative
The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by hereditary, and wins a talent competition, leading to star in a west end show.
|
|
|
Saturday Night Revue (1937)
Character: Minor Role
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
|
|
|
Three Silent Men (1940)
Character: Inspector Gill
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
|
|
|
The Black Abbot (1934)
Character: Inspector Lockwood
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
|
|
|
Detective Lloyd (1932)
Character: Barclay - Scotland Yard Superindendant
A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
|
|
|
|
Julius Caesar (1938)
Character: Decius Brutus/Messala
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
|
|
|
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Character: Station-master
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
|
|
|
77 Park Lane (1931)
Character: Superintendent
When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
|
|
|
Matinee Idol (1933)
Character: Inspector North
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
|
|
|
|
|
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
Character: Magistrate (uncredited)
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
|
|
|
|
The Terror (1938)
Character: Superintendent Hallick
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
|
|
|
|
|
Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
Character: Inspector Japp
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?
|
|
|
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Character: Jellyband
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
|
|
|
Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939)
Character: Inspector Roberts
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
|
|
|
Strange Boarders (1938)
Character: uncredited
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
|
|
|
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Character: Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
|
|
|
|
|
Rembrandt (1936)
Character: Minister
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.
|
|
|
A Place of One's Own (1945)
Character: Sir Roland Jervis
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
|
|
|
Passing Shadows (1934)
Character: Inspector Goodall
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
|
|
|
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
Character: Prison Governor
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
|
|
|
|
|
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Hans Holbein (uncredited)
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
|
|
|
Tudor Rose (1936)
Character: Arundel
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
|
|
|
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Character: Rumyantsev
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
|
|
|
Silver Blaze (1937)
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
|
|
|
Daybreak (1948)
Character: Superintendent
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
|
|
|
Once in a New Moon (1935)
Character: Capt. Crump
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
|
|
|
|
|
His Lordship (1936)
Character: Stevenson
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
|
|
|
The Man Outside (1933)
Character: Inspector Jukes
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
|
|
|
The Night of the Party (1934)
Character: Inspector Ramage
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
|
|
|
The Conquest of the Air (1931)
Character: Von Zeppelin
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
|
|
|
Spies of the Air (1939)
Character: Sir Andrew Hamilton
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
|
|
|
Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
Character: Police Sergeant
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
|
|
|
The Shipbuilders (1943)
Character: Baird
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
|
|
|
The Man at Six (1931)
Character: Inspector Dawford
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
|
|
|
The 39 Steps (1935)
Character: Scottish Police Inspector (uncredited)
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.
|
|
