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The Love Race (1931)
Character: Bobbie Mostyn
The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers – and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other...
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The Happy Ending (1925)
Character: Denis Craddock
A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.
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The Lady Clare (1919)
Character: Lord Ronald Medwin
A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Car of Dreams (1935)
Character: Peters
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...
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Josser in the Army (1932)
Character: Paul Langdon
Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape!
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The Last Coupon (1932)
Character: Dr. Sinclair
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Intimate Relations (1937)
Character: Freddie Hall
George Gommery enjoys slipping up to town to see some little actress, and never suspects that his wife can play the same game just as well as he can. Or at least, he never suspects until he tells his wife that her lover is engaged to the woman whom he has been entertaining in London.
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Mischief (1931)
Character: Tom Birkett
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
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Love Lies (1931)
Character: Rolly Rider
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
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Dr. Josser K.C. (1931)
Character: Dick O'Neill
'Crook dons disguises to attempt blackmail.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Josser Joins the Navy (1932)
Character: Lieutenant Commander Cole
'Hall porter forced to join Navy while tracking spies.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Eleventh Commandment (1924)
Character: Robert Ransome
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
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Fine Feathers (1937)
Character: Felix
A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.
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All That Glitters (1936)
Character: Jack Tolley
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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The Shuttle of Life (1920)
Character: Ray Sinclair
An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
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The Face at the Window (1920)
Character: Lucien Cartwright
A detective is on the verge of revealing the identity of an elusive criminal. At the crucial moment, hedrops dead, the victim of foul play. A revolutionary electric devise is utilized to bring the detective back to life long enough for the successful completion of his mission.
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The Crooked Man (1923)
Character: Henry Wood
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
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The Naval Treaty (1922)
Character: Percy Phelps
Holmes is consulted on a matter of grave national consequence--but with surprisingly little cooperation from the government he seeks to protect. Where is the naval treaty? Why has it not appeared on the continental crime market?
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The Show Goes On (1937)
Character: Nicholson
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
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No Limit (1935)
Character: Bert Tyldesley
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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Millions (1937)
Character: Parsons
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
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His Wife's Mother (1932)
Character: Eustace
A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
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It's in the Air (1938)
Character: Cpl. Craig
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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Let George Do It! (1940)
Character: Conway (uncredited)
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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