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The Perfect Flaw (1934)
Character: Richard Drexel
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
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The Reluctant Widow (1950)
Character: Scowler
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Read All About It (1945)
Character: Robertson
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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The Adventures of Dusty Bates (1947)
Character: Merryvale
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
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Captain Bill (1935)
Character: Red
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
Character: Bishop
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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Tons of Trouble (1956)
Character: Inspector Bridger
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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Partners Please (1932)
Character: CID Man
Aristocrat Lord Dawlish is told by his girlfriend's father that he must find a job if he wishes to continue seeing her. He finds employment as a dancing partner at a dance club and prospers in his new role, despite facing a jealous rival.
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Change for a Sovereign (1937)
Character: Archduke Paul
A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne.
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Papworth Village Settlement (1946)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papworth.
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The Shadow (1933)
Character: Chief Inspector Elliot
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.
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The Marriage of Corbal (1936)
Character: Charles
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
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Dusty Ermine (1936)
Character: Second Thug (uncredited)
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: Horace Chandler
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 Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: Saunders
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Three Witnesses (1935)
Character: Bellman
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
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Lisbon Story (1946)
Character: Police Commissionaire
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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Black Eyes (1939)
Character: Diner
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
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The Seventh Survivor (1942)
Character: Captain
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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Life of St. Paul (1938)
Character: Orderly
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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The Bells (1931)
Character: Blacksmith
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
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The Good Companions (1957)
Character: George Memsford
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Challenge (1938)
Character: Giordano
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Character: Rodzianko
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Wicked as They Come (1956)
Character: John Dowling
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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The Long Arm (1956)
Character: Colonel Blenkinsop
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Beware of Pity (1946)
Character: Maj. Sandor Balinkay
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
Character: Comber
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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The Drum (1938)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.
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Eureka Stockade (1949)
Character: Gov. Hotham
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
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Exodus (1960)
Character: Colonel
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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The Saint in London (1939)
Character: Kussella
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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The Outsider (1939)
Character: Sir Nathan Israel
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
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The Crimson Circle (1936)
Character: Lawrence Fuller
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Character: Buchanan
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
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Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
Character: Auctioneer
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
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Quo Vadis (1951)
Character: Tigellinus
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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South Riding (1938)
Character: Nursing Home Doctor
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
Character: Monks
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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Secret Lives (1937)
Character: Prison Guard
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
Character: Vice Admiral
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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Fire Over England (1937)
Character: Spanish Inquisition Representative (uncredited)
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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Malta Story (1953)
Character: Vice Adm Willie Banks
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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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935)
Character: Sam Cohen
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
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The Spaniard's Curse (1958)
Character: Sir Robert Wyvern
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
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Sotto dieci bandiere (1960)
Character: Admiral Bensen
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.
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Beau Brummell (1954)
Character: Sir Ralph Sidley
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: Admiral
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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The Black Tent (1956)
Character: Major Cross
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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The Interrupted Journey (1949)
Character: Inspector Waterson
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Character: Wainwright
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Character: Clarendon
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
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Le Carrosse d'or (1952)
Character: Duc de Castro
A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
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El Cid (1961)
Character: King Ferdinand
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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Ben-Hur (1959)
Character: Aide to Tiberius (uncredited)
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Character: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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Treasure Island (1950)
Character: George Merry
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Beyond This Place (1959)
Character: Sir Matthew Sprott
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
Character: Sir Richard
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
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Christopher Columbus (1949)
Character: Captain
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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