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The Happy Ending (1931)
Character: Alf
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
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The Last Post (1929)
Character: Tiny
'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)
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White Heat (1927)
Character: Apache
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
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Convict 99 (1938)
Character: Sykes
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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South American George (1941)
Character: Slappy
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
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Much Too Shy (1942)
Character: Pavement Artist
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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The Pride of the Force (1933)
Character: Sergeant Brown
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
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Lost In The Legion (1934)
Character: Sergeant Mulligan
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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East Lynne on the Western Front (1931)
Character: Ben / Cornelia
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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Splinters in the Navy (1931)
Character: Spike Higgins
To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
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The Third String (1932)
Character: Bill Lumm
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
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Sailors Don't Care (1928)
Character: Nobby Clark
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Window in London (1940)
Character: Tiny
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
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Night Journey (1938)
Character: Tiny
A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
Character: 2nd. Henchman
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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The Nipper (1930)
Character: Alf Green
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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Carry On! (1927)
Character: Lumley
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Balaclava (1928)
Character: Nobby
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
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Second to None (1927)
Character: Curley
A commander's adopted son is serving in the Royal Navy. When the son discovers his sweetheart has married a spy his personal turmoil and the need to settle this domestic crisis drives him to go AWOL placing immense strain on his family and his military standing.
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Alf's Button (1930)
Character: Bill Grant
A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
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Spy for a Day (1940)
Character: Sergeant Bryan
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
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Let's Be Famous (1939)
Character: Battling Bulger
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
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Return to Yesterday (1940)
Character: Attendant
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Downhill (1927)
Character: Sailor
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
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Luck of the Navy (1938)
Character: Tomkins
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
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St. Martin's Lane (1938)
Character: Doggie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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The Squeaker (1937)
Character: Police Sgt. Hawkins
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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The Way to the Stars (1945)
Character: PT Instructor
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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Song of Freedom (1936)
Character: Alf, the Bartender (uncredited)
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
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No Limit (1935)
Character: Norton
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
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Owd Bob (1938)
Character: Barry Davis
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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Bed and Breakfast (1930)
Character: Alf Dunning
A newlywed couple have a fight, and in order to get even with one another, each decides to take up with a lover but without actually going through with "the deed".
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High Treason (1929)
Character: Tele-radiographer
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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Murder in Soho (1939)
Character: Mike
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
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The Green Cockatoo (1937)
Character: Jake
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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The Way Ahead (1944)
Character: Instructor (uncredited)
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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Hindle Wakes (1927)
Character: Nobby
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
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Convoy (1940)
Character: Bosun's Mate
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Farewell Again (1937)
Character: Pvt. Bulger
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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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Character: N/A
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Character: Red
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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It's a Bet (1935)
Character: Joe
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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They Met in the Dark (1943)
Character: One of Mansel's Tough Friends (uncredited)
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
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The Ware Case (1938)
Character: Court Attendant
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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