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What's the Next Job? (1945)
Character: Hall
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
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Room in the House (1955)
Character: Mr. Joliphant
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
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Now Barabbas (1949)
Character: Medworth
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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A Girl in a Million (1946)
Character: Dr. Peters
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.
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Golden Arrow (1949)
Character: Waterhouse
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
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A Christmas Carol (1950)
Character: Ghost of Christmas Present / Portly Gentleman
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Laxdale Hall (1953)
Character: Cabinet Minister
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
Character: Air Marshal Carruthers
During WWII, a dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa. An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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The Woman in Question (1950)
Character: Police Surgeon
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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One More Time (1970)
Character: Lord Turpington-Mellish
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
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The Ruling Class (1972)
Character: Lord
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
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The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Character: Mr. Bracebridge
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
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So Well Remembered (1947)
Character: Wetherall
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
Character: George Burton
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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