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Esther Waters (1948)
Character: John Randall
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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The Price of Wisdom (1935)
Character: Mr. Pollit
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
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The Village Squire (1935)
Character: Mr. Worsford
Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
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Foreign Affaires (1935)
Character: Count
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
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Sleeping Car (1933)
Character: Durande
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
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What a Man! (1939)
Character: Mayor
Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement.
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Escape to Danger (1943)
Character: Henry Waud
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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Double Exposures (1937)
Character: Edward Mather
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
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Hot Ice (1953)
Character: Edwin Carson
An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.
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Someday (1935)
Character: Hope
“Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
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The Wandering Jew (1933)
Character: Castro (Phase IV)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
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What Do We Do Now? (1946)
Character: Ted Goof
Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
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Murder in Reverse? (1945)
Character: Woody
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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The Roof (1933)
Character: Arthur Stannard
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
Character: Troubetski
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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The New Lot (1943)
Character: Photographer
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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Paper Orchid (1949)
Character: Eustace Crabb
Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh. It is perhaps most notable for an early film appearance of Sid James, later to find success through the Carry On series.
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The Good Companions (1933)
Character: Eric Tipstead
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
Character: Naseby
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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Great Expectations (1946)
Character: Mr. Wemmick
In this Dickens adaptation, 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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So Evil My Love (1948)
Character: Mr. Watson
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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Sally in Our Alley (1931)
Character: Tod Small
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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Sea Devils (1953)
Character: Benson
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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Pygmalion (1938)
Character: Sarcastic 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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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Wept
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
Character: Taxi Driver
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Joseph Higgins (uncredited)
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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The Skin Game (1931)
Character: Man at Auction (uncredited)
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
Character: Chairman of the Board
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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Hotel Reserve (1944)
Character: P. Molon, chemist
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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Secret Lives (1937)
Character: Baldhead
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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The Queen of Spades (1949)
Character: Bookseller
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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The Silver Fleet (1943)
Character: Admiral
The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van Leyden is summoned to build ships for the German war effort. The commission would allow Leyden to build sophisticated submarines whilst safeguarding jobs for the local Dutch workforce. A newly built U-boat, named U107 goes out on her first sea trial and is hijacked by a Dutch crew and they re-route the vessel to England. As such it provided an opportunity to refuel patriotism in the face of a seemingly interminable war and almost unbearable civilian hardship.
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Malta Story (1953)
Character: Old Man
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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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Character: 2nd. Nobleman
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Character: Conductor (Uncredited)
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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English Without Tears (1944)
Character: Mr. Quiel
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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Great Day (1945)
Character: Bailiff
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Appointment with Crime (1946)
Character: Jonah Crackle
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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Beat the Devil (1953)
Character: Maj. Jack Ross
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
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Undercover (1943)
Character: Station Master
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
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Victoria the Great (1937)
Character: Assassin
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Perfect Strangers (1945)
Character: Chemist
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
Character: Timothy Crouch
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
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London Belongs to Me (1948)
Character: Mr Justice Plymme
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
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The Wicked Lady (1945)
Character: Clergyman
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Character: Watkins
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Character: Rev. Burt
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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The Guv'nor (1935)
Character: Vagrant
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
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Quiet Wedding (1941)
Character: Bass
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
Character: Bus Driver
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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The House of the Spaniard (1936)
Character: Mott
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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The Mill on the Floss (1937)
Character: Mr. Moss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Illegal (1932)
Character: Albert
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
Character: Hewitt
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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The 39 Steps (1935)
Character: Political Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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