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The Friendly Inn (1958)
Character: N/A
They don’t make them like this anymore, that’s for sure! Made for the British Travel Association ‘The Friendly Inn’ takes the viewer on a rapid tour of pubs across the British Isles. The film is fronted by English actor Michael Denison (Boyd QC), as he gushes how ‘the atmosphere is bound to be gay’ when introducing The Punch Bowl pub, judging it by its pub sign! This is essentially a travelogue of inns really.
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Funeral Games (1968)
Character: Pringle
Pringle, leader of the Brotherhood, recieves an anonymous letter accusing his wife of adultery. He employs a private investigator, Caulfield, who discovers things are not quite that straightforward. Joe Orton's last play for television: a farce.
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Unexpectedly Vacant (1970)
Character: Bruce Armstrong
A husband and wife acting team face the growing realisation that they will never be better than mediocre during a summer spent in rep.
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The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
Character: Race Commentator
In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.
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Bedroom Farce (1980)
Character: Ernest
Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Jonathan Dakers
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Angels One Five (1952)
Character: Squadron Leader Peter Moon
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
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Landfall (1949)
Character: Rick
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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The Blind Goddess (1948)
Character: Derek Waterhouse
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
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Tall Headlines (1952)
Character: Philip Rackham
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Character: Algernon Moncrieff
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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The Franchise Affair (1951)
Character: Robert Blair
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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Shadowlands (1993)
Character: Harry Harrington
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
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The Magic Box (1952)
Character: Reporter
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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The Glass Mountain (1949)
Character: Richard Wilder
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
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Contraband Spain (1955)
Character: Agente británico Ricky Metcalfe
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
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Faces in the Dark (1960)
Character: David Merton
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
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Hungry Hill (1947)
Character: Henry Brodrick
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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The Truth About Women (1957)
Character: Rollo
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
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