Biography: Scottish actor. He mainly played small, but memorable parts in UK productions.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 10, 1908
Deathday: January 01, 1982
Popularity:
1963-01-01
Overview: Eight youngsters are cut off by the East Anglian floods in a farmhouse with no grown-ups to help them. The story tells how they deal with the situation until they are rescued.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
Popularity:
1949-08-03
Overview: A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-03
Popularity:
1973-12-06
Overview: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
Popularity:
1950-10-01
Overview: A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
Popularity:
1954-10-08
Overview: Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-08
Popularity:
1954-06-21
Overview: A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-21
Popularity:
1953-10-26
Overview: After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
Popularity:
1953-04-15
Overview: The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-15
Popularity:
1952-01-02
Overview: Showing the importance of a thorough induction.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-02
Popularity:
1952-03-20
Overview: When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tropical island. But when British pilot William Peck crash-lands on their cozy little atoll, Dugan suddenly discovers he has a rival in love.
Genres: Adventure War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-20
Popularity:
1964-01-01
Overview: Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
1951-11-06
Overview: Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
Popularity:
1949-09-07
Overview: A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
Popularity:
1971-12-22
Overview: Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
Popularity:
1949-11-15
Overview: Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst soldiers on the frontline wasn't the sole cause. Back on the home front, for many women, like Joan from No. 19, loneliness or newfound independence acted as an incentive to extramarital promiscuity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
Popularity:
1949-03-01
Overview: In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-01
Popularity:
1957-01-24
Overview: The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
Popularity:
1954-11-10
Overview: Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
Popularity:
1951-09-02
Overview: Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-02
Popularity:
1943-01-02
Overview: Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
Popularity:
1948-11-05
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
Popularity:
1960-11-01
Overview: A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
Popularity:
1959-06-23
Overview: At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-23
Popularity:
1960-01-01
Overview: The journey of a mobile bank in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
Popularity:
1951-02-20
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
Popularity:
1951-07-02
Overview: Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-02
Popularity:
1972-10-05
Overview: Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-05
Popularity:
1952-08-01
Overview: The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-01
Popularity:
1968-07-20
Overview: The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-20
Popularity:
1934-12-31
Overview: A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-31
Popularity:
1950-02-15
Overview: Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-15
Popularity:
1969-07-14
Overview: Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-14
Popularity:
1952-01-01
Overview: The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
Popularity:
1957-05-07
Overview: On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-07
Popularity:
1957-05-07
Overview: On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-07
Popularity:
1958-08-04
Overview: Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
Popularity:
1954-10-18
Overview: The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-18
Popularity:
1936-01-01
Overview: A comedy of a bachelor struggling to wake up and get to work, whilst living in a boarding house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
Popularity:
1954-06-06
Overview: A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
Popularity:
1954-02-25
Overview: The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-25
Popularity:
1963-04-08
Overview: Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-08
Popularity:
1962-04-14
Overview: During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-14
Popularity:
1963-03-07
Overview: Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-07
Popularity:
1950-03-08
Overview: Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-08
Popularity:
1959-09-10
Overview: Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-10
Popularity:
1958-05-28
Overview: In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
Popularity:
1954-08-24
Overview: A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-24
Popularity:
1965-11-12
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
Popularity:
1951-08-07
Overview: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-07
Popularity:
1950-04-24
Overview: The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-24
Popularity:
1953-02-24
Overview: At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-24
Popularity:
1979-09-09
Overview: When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikely places.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-09
Popularity:
1951-12-18
Overview: When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
Popularity:
1953-03-17
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
Popularity:
1953-07-23
Overview: Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-23
Popularity:
1952-11-12
Overview: In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-12
Popularity:
1948-06-03
Overview: Two men, worn down by their dismal daily existence, decide to take action.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-03
Popularity:
1950-09-11
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
Popularity:
1950-10-16
Overview: True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-16
Popularity:
1957-04-02
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
Popularity:
1953-04-29
Overview: A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-29
Popularity:
1949-06-07
Overview: The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-07
Popularity:
1961-12-01
Overview: Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
Popularity:
1949-07-19
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:
1956-12-26
Overview: IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-26
Popularity:
1960-03-31
Overview: A woman with extra-sensory perception has a vision of a murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
Popularity:
1966-12-16
Overview: A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
Popularity:
1952-03-19
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
Popularity:
1949-02-02
Overview: A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
Popularity:
1959-08-05
Overview: Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-05
Popularity: