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The Light Princess (1978)
Character: Fat Frog (voice)
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
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Up the Front (1972)
Character: General von Kobler
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.
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Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
Character: Mosspot
A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
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Follow That Man (1961)
Character: Gustav
A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.
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Group Madness (1983)
Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein.
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The Turners of Prospect Road (1947)
Character: J.G. Clarkson
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
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Dead Man's Shoes (1940)
Character: Defense Counsel
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
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Smart Alec (1951)
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
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Strange Stories (1953)
Character: Captain Breen ('Strange Journey')
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
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Great Expectations (1974)
Character: Wemmick
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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The Scapegoat (1959)
Character: Aristide
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Character: General Bellowes
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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As You Like It (1936)
Character: William
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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Who Done It? (1956)
Character: Scientist
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Character: Kalikan firing-squad officer
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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Joseph Andrews (1977)
Character: Sir Thomas Booby
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
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The Green Man (1956)
Character: General Niva
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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Goodbye Again (1961)
Character: Client
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
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Alice au pays des Merveilles (1949)
Character: Puppet Character (voice)
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
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The Brute (1977)
Character: Housemaster
Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diane to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
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Scrooge (1951)
Character: First Businessman / Narrator
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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The Rebel (1961)
Character: Manager of Art Gallery, Paris
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
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Tom Jones (1963)
Character: Thwackum
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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Oliver Twist (1948)
Character: Landlord of 'Three Cripples'
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The Six Men (1951)
Character: The Chief
The ‘Six Men’ are a gang of six criminals that Scotland Yard is unable to pin a charge against even though they are positive of the identities.
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The African Queen (1952)
Character: Captain of Louisa
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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The Executioner (1970)
Character: Butterfield
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Character: Prince George Louis
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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I'll Get You for This (1951)
Character: Hans
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
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Sabotage (1937)
Character: Mr. Verloc's Visitor (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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Non-Stop New York (1937)
Character: Spurgeon
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Salute the Toff (1952)
Character: Lorne
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Malta Story (1953)
Character: Flying Officer
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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You Must Be Joking (1965)
Character: Ferocious Man in Library
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Character: Brasher
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Contraband (1940)
Character: Third Brother Grimm
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
Character: Fidgity Phil
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Girl Stroke Boy (1971)
Character: Peter Hovendon
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to the fore.
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The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Character: Man in Taxi (uncredited)
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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The Intelligence Men (1965)
Character: Philippe
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
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Beau Brummell (1954)
Character: Mr. Fox
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
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Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Character: Minister
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Yellowbeard (1983)
Character: Queen Anne
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978)
Character: August Visitor
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
Character: Gamin (uncredited)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Character: Duchess
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
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Quiet Wedding (1941)
Character: Tenor
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Tom Thumb (1958)
Character: Town Crier
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
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The Tempest (1979)
Character: Alonso, the King of Naples
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
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The Old Dark House (1963)
Character: Caspar Femm / Jasper Femm
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
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Woman Hater (1948)
Character: Mr. Fletcher
An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.
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Licensed to Kill (1965)
Character: Masterman
An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
Character: Lord Bermogg
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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The Ware Case (1938)
Character: Eustace Ede
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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