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Where’s George? (1935)
Character: N/A
A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
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The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935)
Character: Landlord
Henry, an unemployed London street entertainer, gets his big break when he is engaged to perform as the opening act of a cabaret in local pub. He proves a huge success and his popularity ensures his transition from pub entertainer to star performer.
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Not So Dusty (1956)
Character: N/A
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
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The King's Highway (1927)
Character: N/A
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Common Touch (1941)
Character: 'Nobby'
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.
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Smith (1939)
Character: Jones
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
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Night Ride (1937)
Character: Alf Higgins
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
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Warned Off (1930)
Character: Miles
An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
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The Price of Folly (1937)
Character: N/A
When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
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Read All About It (1945)
Character: 2nd Policeman
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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Sword of Honour (1939)
Character: Pomeroy Brown
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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Castle Sinister (1932)
Character: Jorkins
A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.
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I See Ice (1938)
Character: Train Conductor
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
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The Adventures of Jane (1949)
Character: Customs Official
Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.
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Dandy Dick (1935)
Character: Police Constable Topping
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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Will Any Gentleman...? (1953)
Character: Bookmaker
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
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George in Civvy Street (1946)
Character: Sprout
George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in love with her.
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Date With a Dream (1948)
Character: Uncle
Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
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Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
Character: Sergt. Hawkins
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
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Let the People Sing (1942)
Character: Sam
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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Much Too Shy (1942)
Character: Police Constable
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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Get Off My Foot (1935)
Character: Tramp
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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The Great Game (1930)
Character: Joe Miller
Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
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Excuse My Glove (1936)
Character: Hurricane Harry
A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
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Night Alone (1938)
Character: Policeman
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..!
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The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
Character: Tom
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
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Henry Steps Out (1940)
Character: Wally
On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.
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The Sport of Kings (1931)
Character: Panama Pete
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
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Busman's Holiday (1936)
Character: Jeff Pinkerton
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
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Old Mother Riley at Home (1945)
Character: Bouncer
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
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Don Chicago (1945)
Character: Sergeant
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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Here's George (1932)
Character: Foreman
'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Up for the Derby (1933)
Character: Bert Davis, bookie
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Dora (1933)
Character: PC William Petty
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
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Badger’s Green (1934)
Character: Mr Rogers
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.
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Quiet, Please (1938)
Character: Bill
“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
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Hail and Farewell (1936)
Character: Sergeant Major
“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
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The Man Who Made Diamonds (1937)
Character: Alf Higgins
“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
Character: Police Sergeant
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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The Flying Squad (1940)
Character: Bargee
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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Shadows (1931)
Character: Cripps
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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Thread o' Scarlet (1930)
Character: Ford
'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Death on the Set (1935)
Character: Sergeant Crowther
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
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Laugh It Off (1940)
Character: Sergeant
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.
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Music Hall (1934)
Character: Fred
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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Street Song (1935)
Character: Wally
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
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The Sky’s the Limit (1937)
Character: Commissionaire
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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His Majesty & Co. (1935)
Character: Bert Hicks
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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Carry On! (1927)
Character: Andrews
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Doctor Syn (1937)
Character: Collyer's Bo'sun
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Dusty Ermine (1936)
Character: Thug
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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Sabotage at Sea (1942)
Character: Tom (the steward)
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)
Character: Foreman
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
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Pygmalion (1948)
Character: Man in the Cap
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
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I Didn't Do It (1945)
Character: Det Sgt. Carp
Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! Whilst staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, with the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Daring Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.
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Off the Dole (1935)
Character: Revels In His Part
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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The Street Singer (1937)
Character: Policeman
Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
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The Crime at Blossoms (1933)
Character: Palmer
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
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Operation Cupid (1960)
Character: N/A
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
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Calling Paul Temple (1948)
Character: Spider Williams
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
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Those Were the Days (1934)
Character: Inspector Briggs
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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The Great Gay Road (1931)
Character: Joe
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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The Guns of Loos (1928)
Character: Sergeant
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
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The Seventh Survivor (1942)
Character: Bob Sutton
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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Return to Yesterday (1940)
Character: Night Watchman
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
Character: Harry
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
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The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939)
Character: Lomer
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
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High Treason (1929)
Character: Peace League Commissionaire
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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Neutral Port (1940)
Character: Fred
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Tiger Bay (1934)
Character: Wally
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Character: Sergeant Major
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Sorrell and Son (1934)
Character: Buck
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
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Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Character: Gallery Attendant
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Character: Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
Character: The Buller
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
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Hammer the Toff (1952)
Character: Bert Ebbutt
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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Bob's Your Uncle (1942)
Character: Sgt. Brownfoot
Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.
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The Millionairess (1960)
Character: Whelk Seller
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
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In Which We Serve (1942)
Character: Uncle Fred
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Poison Pen (1939)
Character: Mr. Albert Suggs
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Unpublished Story (1942)
Character: Taxi Driver at Victoria Station
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Pygmalion (1939)
Character: First Bystander
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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Death by Design (1943)
Character: Sergeant Clinton
Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
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Serena (1962)
Character: Barman
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
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The Skin Game (1931)
Character: Van Driver (uncredited)
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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Helter Skelter (1949)
Character: BBC Commissionaire
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Owd Bob (1938)
Character: Unlucky Joe
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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Josephine and Men (1955)
Character: Landlord
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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Wanted for Murder (1946)
Character: Merry-Go-Round Barker
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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Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
Character: Sam Holt
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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Up the Junction (1965)
Character: Totter
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
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The Fire Raisers (1934)
Character: Price the Trainer
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
Character: Watchman
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)
Character: Police Officer 'Tiny' White
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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Poor Cow (1967)
Character: Pub Customer
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
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They Came by Night (1940)
Character: Bugsie
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
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Good-Time Girl (1948)
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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The Adventure of the Torture Cage (1928)
Character: Private Bill Riggers
Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
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Nothing Barred (1961)
Character: Newspaperman
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
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Get Cracking (1943)
Character: Sgt. Joe Preston
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
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Bank Holiday (1938)
Character: Arthur
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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Salute the Toff (1952)
Character: Bert Ebbutt
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Passing Shadows (1934)
Character: Sergeant
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.
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I Thank You (1941)
Character: Bill The Fireman
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
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The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
Character: Detective Sergeant George
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
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Three Clear Sundays (1965)
Character: Prisoner
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
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Appointment with Crime (1946)
Character: Joe Fisher
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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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Butcher in Kitchen (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.
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Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)
Character: Charlie Peters
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
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The Naked Truth (1957)
Character: Paunchy Old Man
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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Tell England (1931)
Character: Sergeant
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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Night Train to Munich (1940)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
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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Once in a New Moon (1935)
Character: Syd Parrott
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.
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Band Waggon (1940)
Character: Commisssionaire
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
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I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Character: Workman
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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The Guinea Pig (1948)
Character: Uncle Percy
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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The Challenge (1960)
Character: Ticket Collector
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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Danger by My Side (1962)
Character: Factory Gatekeeper
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
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Gasbags (1941)
Character: Sgt Major
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
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The Comedy Man (1964)
Character: Bar Manager
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
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Quiet Wedding (1941)
Character: Third Magistrate
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Farewell Again (1937)
Character: Sgt. Maj. Billings
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
Character: Tom Pike
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
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Green Fingers (1947)
Character: Dawson
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
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Cottage to Let (1941)
Character: Evans
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Crime Unlimited (1935)
Character: Andrew Purvis
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
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Shooting Stars (1928)
Character: Property Man
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
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Cathy Come Home (1966)
Character: Grandad
A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
Character: George
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
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Prison Breaker (1936)
Character: Villars
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
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The Ware Case (1938)
Character: Taxi Driver
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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