Jimmy Hanley
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918 – 13 January 1970) was a British actor. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popular in juvenile roles. He was groomed by the Rank Studio system during his teenage years and earned film stardom as a "boy-next-door" type. The young star-struck actor attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and whilst he was studying there, made his stage debut at the London Palladium, as John Darling in Peter Pan. He later worked on TV, hosting the ITV series Jim's Inn, which combined advertising messages with the plot of a soap opera. Hanley was married twice: * Dinah Sheridan (1942–1952, three children, including Jenny Hanley and the Conservative politician Sir Jeremy Hanley) * Margaret Avery (1955–1970, three daughters: Jane, Sarah and Katy) Hanley died from cancer in Leatherhead, Surrey, aged 51. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimmy Hanley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1918
Deathday: January 13, 1970
Popularity:
Known For
The Lost Continent
1968-06-19
The Lost Continent
Overview: An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-19
Popularity:
Housemaster
1938-01-31
Housemaster
Overview: Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
Popularity:
Satellite in the Sky
1956-07-21
Satellite in the Sky
Overview: A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-21
Popularity:
Way Off Beat
1966-06-08
Way Off Beat
Overview: Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
Popularity:
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947-11-28
It Always Rains on Sunday
Overview: During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
Popularity:
The Way Ahead
1944-06-09
The Way Ahead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
Popularity:
The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19
The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
Popularity:
The Captive Heart
1946-04-29
The Captive Heart
Overview: A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-29
Popularity:
There Ain't No Justice
1939-06-17
There Ain't No Justice
Overview: A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-17
Popularity:
Boys Will Be Boys
1935-07-01
Boys Will Be Boys
Overview: Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
Popularity:
Royal Cavalcade
1935-04-15
Royal Cavalcade
Overview: Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
Popularity:
The Galloping Major
1951-05-07
The Galloping Major
Overview: A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-07
Popularity:
Boys in Brown
1949-12-01
Boys in Brown
Overview: Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
Popularity:
For You Alone
1945-05-28
For You Alone
Overview: Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
Popularity:
Here Come the Huggetts
1948-12-02
Here Come the Huggetts
Overview: The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-02
Popularity:
The Huggetts Abroad
1949-03-21
The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
Popularity:
Room to Let
1950-05-15
Room to Let
Overview: In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-15
Popularity:
Holiday Camp
1947-08-05
Holiday Camp
Overview: The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-05
Popularity:
Red Wagon
1933-12-06
Red Wagon
Overview: Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
Popularity:
The Deep Blue Sea
1955-11-01
The Deep Blue Sea
Overview: A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
Popularity:
Wild Boy
1934-01-01
Wild Boy
Overview: This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
Popularity:
The Black Rider
1954-12-01
The Black Rider
Overview: When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
Popularity:
Brown on Resolution
1935-05-15
Brown on Resolution
Overview: Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
Popularity:
Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives
1943-05-01
Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives
Overview: Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-01
Popularity:
Little Friend
1934-11-18
Little Friend
Overview: A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-18
Popularity:
Night Ride
1937-06-28
Night Ride
Overview: Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
Popularity:
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945-01-28
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Overview: Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-28
Popularity:
The Tunnel
1935-10-27
The Tunnel
Overview: An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-27
Popularity:
The Smiths in Scotland
1966-01-01
The Smiths in Scotland
Overview: A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
Popularity:
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
1968-08-03
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Overview: Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-03
Popularity:
Gaslight
1940-08-31
Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
Popularity:
Landslide
1937-01-01
Landslide
Overview: A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
Popularity:
Radio Cab Murder
1954-10-01
Radio Cab Murder
Overview: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
Popularity:
29 Acacia Avenue
1945-05-01
29 Acacia Avenue
Overview: The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
Popularity:
Don't Ever Leave Me
1949-07-19
Don't Ever Leave Me
Overview: Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-19
Popularity:
Henry V
1944-11-24
Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
Popularity:
Salute John Citizen
1942-09-28
Salute John Citizen
Overview: A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-28
Popularity:
Cotton Queen
1937-06-01
Cotton Queen
Overview: The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
Popularity:
The Gentle Sex
1943-05-23
The Gentle Sex
Overview: During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-23
Popularity:
Murder in Reverse?
1945-10-21
Murder in Reverse?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-21
Popularity:
It's Hard to be Good
1948-11-10
It's Hard to be Good
Overview: A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-10
Popularity:
The Master of Bankdam
1947-08-20
The Master of Bankdam
Overview: Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
Popularity:
Views on Trial
1954-01-01
Views on Trial
Overview: The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
Popularity: