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Colonel Blood (1934)
Character: Charles II
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Red Ensign (1934)
Character: Grierson
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Smith (1939)
Character: Employer
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
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The Reluctant Widow (1950)
Character: Colonel
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Anne One Hundred (1933)
Character: Penvale
A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open.[
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Stranglehold (1931)
Character: King
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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Song of the Plough (1933)
Character: Joe Saxby
'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
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Ask Beccles (1933)
Character: Matthew Blaise
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
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A Window in London (1940)
Character: Sir Edward
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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The Flying Squad (1940)
Character: Johnson
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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The Hate Ship (1929)
Character: Dr. Saunders
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
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Koenigsmark (1935)
Character: Grand Duke Rodolphe
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
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Dangerous Medicine (1938)
Character: Supt. Fox
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
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You Will Remember (1941)
Character: Signor Folli
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
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Drake of England (1935)
Character: Don Bernardino
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
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Old Bill and Son (1941)
Character: Willoughby
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Spy for a Day (1940)
Character: Colonel Roberts
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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Lisbon Story (1946)
Character: Dr. Cartier
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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Nelson (1918)
Character: Sir William Hamilton
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
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Now Let Him Go (1957)
Character: Sir Jeffrey Brock
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
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Life of St. Paul (1938)
Character: Unidentified role
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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The Good Old Days (1939)
Character: Shadwell
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances. A rival tavern informs the police and they have to pay a heavy fine. However, they find the money by rescuing a boy and getting the reward.
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The Solitary Cyclist (1921)
Character: Jack Woodley
Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.
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The Ghost Train (1931)
Character: Dr. Sterling
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Character: Brigadeer Lloyd
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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The Four Feathers (1939)
Character: General Faversham
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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Non Ti Scordar Di Me (1935)
Character: London Manager
This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical selections from "Il Trovatore" and "Rigoletto" as well as a lullaby and some Neapolitan songs, including the title tune. Distributed by New York's Bel Canto Society (an organization of hard-core opera buffs).
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Crown v. Stevens (1936)
Character: Inspector Carter
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
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Action for Slander (1937)
Character: Colonel (as Alan Jeayes)
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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Sanders of the River (1935)
Character: Father O'Leary
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
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The Squeaker (1937)
Character: Inspector Elford
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 Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Character: Lord Grenville
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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The Impassive Footman (1932)
Character: John Marwood
A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
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Dead of Night (1945)
Character: Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Richard Barras - the mine owner
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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A Royal Divorce (1938)
Character: Marat
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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Waterfront (1950)
Character: Prison Officer
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
Character: Dr Benckendorf
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Tomorrow We Live (1943)
Character: Pogo
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
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The Proud Valley (1940)
Character: Mr. Trevor
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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Blanche Fury (1948)
Character: Mr. Weatherby
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
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King of the Damned (1935)
Character: Dr. Prada
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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Forget Me Not (1936)
Character: London theatre manager
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
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Seven Sinners (1936)
Character: Wagner
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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Rembrandt (1936)
Character: Dr. Tulp
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Sailors Three (1940)
Character: British Commdr.
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Character: Governor of Ahlden
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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The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Character: The Story Teller
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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The Green Cockatoo (1937)
Character: The Detective Inspector
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 Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
Character: Dr. James Mortimer
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.
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Knight Without Armour (1937)
Character: White General
In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Character: Judge of the Tribunal
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Night Train to Munich (1940)
Character: KL Prisoner (uncredited)
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Character: Colonel Karnilov
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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Elephant Boy (1937)
Character: Machua Appa
In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.
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His Lordship (1936)
Character: Barak
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
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Perfect Strangers (1945)
Character: Commander
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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Obsession (1949)
Character: The Colonel, blustery club member
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Convoy (1940)
Character: Commander Blount
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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The High Command (1937)
Character: H.E., the Governor
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Q Planes (1939)
Character: Minor Role
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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Things to Come (1936)
Character: Mr. Cabal (uncredited)
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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Above Rubies (1932)
Character: Lamont
In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
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Pride and Prejudice (1938)
Character: Mr. Bennet
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
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The House of the Spaniard (1936)
Character: Don Pedro de Guzman
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 Shipbuilders (1943)
Character: Ralph
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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They Drive by Night (1938)
Character: Wally Mason
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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The Camels Are Coming (1934)
Character: Sheikh
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
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