Raymond Lovell
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raymond Lovell (13 April 1900 - 1 October 1953) was a Canadian-born film actor who performed in British produced films. He mainly played supporting roles, and was often seen as slightly pompous characters. After a short marriage to Tamara Desni which ended in a divorce, Lovell found love with Margot Ruddock, an actress, singer and poet and they had a daughter, Simone Lovell. Lovell initially trained as a Doctor at Cambridge University, but gave up medicine for the stage in the 1920s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raymond Lovell , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 13, 1900
Deathday: October 01, 1953
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49th Parallel
1941-11-24
49th Parallel
Overview: In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-24
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1945-12-11
Caesar and Cleopatra
Overview: The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-11
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Night Boat to Dublin
1946-01-08
Night Boat to Dublin
Overview: British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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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
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Crime Unlimited
1935-08-01
Crime Unlimited
Overview: A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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The Man in Grey
1943-08-06
The Man in Grey
Overview: After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-06
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Madness of the Heart
1949-12-20
Madness of the Heart
Overview: A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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The End of the River
1947-12-01
The End of the River
Overview: A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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So Evil My Love
1948-08-02
So Evil My Love
Overview: In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-02
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The Vanquished
1953-10-22
The Vanquished
Overview: Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-22
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My Brother's Keeper
1948-08-19
My Brother's Keeper
Overview: War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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Appointment with Crime
1946-05-13
Appointment with Crime
Overview: Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Uncensored
1942-08-24
Uncensored
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Easy Money
1948-01-20
Easy Money
Overview: A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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Contraband
1940-05-11
Contraband
Overview: When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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Hotel Reserve
1944-06-01
Hotel Reserve
Overview: A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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Alibi
1942-08-10
Alibi
Overview: In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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Candlelight in Algeria
1944-03-19
Candlelight in Algeria
Overview: Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-19
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The Three Weird Sisters
1948-02-26
The Three Weird Sisters
Overview: Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Naughty Arlette
1949-11-29
Naughty Arlette
Overview: Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-29
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The Blind Goddess
1948-09-14
The Blind Goddess
Overview: Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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Who Killed Van Loon?
1948-02-02
Who Killed Van Loon?
Overview: Crime film directed by Gordon Kyle and Lionel Tomlinson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-02
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Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle
1935-10-01
Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle
Overview: In this lively detective drama, Sexton Blake, private eye, must find out who stole the bonds of a prominent financier.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Troubled Waters
1936-02-01
Troubled Waters
Overview: James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'. He plays a government agent (John Merriman) who makes a few enquiries and follows leads. Cherill plays June Elkhardt.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Warn That Man
1943-07-13
Warn That Man
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Genres: War Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-13
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Once Upon a Dream
1949-02-01
Once Upon a Dream
Overview: An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Love, Life and Laughter
1934-03-01
Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Q Planes
1939-02-21
Q Planes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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King of the Damned
1935-12-31
King of the Damned
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Midnight Menace
1937-05-04
Midnight Menace
Overview: When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-04
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Fools Rush In
1949-05-23
Fools Rush In
Overview: Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for Pamela's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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The Steel Key
1953-05-01
The Steel Key
Overview: An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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The Bad Lord Byron
1949-04-18
The Bad Lord Byron
Overview: Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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The Common Touch
1941-11-15
The Common Touch
Overview: The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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The Calendar
1948-07-05
The Calendar
Overview: The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-05
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Secret Lives
1937-04-22
Secret Lives
Overview: A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Someday
1935-11-18
Someday
Overview: “Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-18
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The Case of Gabriel Perry
1935-04-30
The Case of Gabriel Perry
Overview: An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-30
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Gaol Break
1936-08-31
Gaol Break
Overview: “Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American family's son who was kidnapped years back. He breaks jail to rescue his son but after seeing how happy his son will be with the family, he renounces his claim to boy and returns to finish his sentence in jail.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-31
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Glamorous Night
1937-04-28
Glamorous Night
Overview: Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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Fair Exchange
1936-09-14
Fair Exchange
Overview: “Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-14
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1942-09-21
The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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Quartet
1948-10-26
Quartet
Overview: Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Goose Steps Out
1942-08-01
The Goose Steps Out
Overview: Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952-07-01
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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The Pickwick Papers
1952-11-14
The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Gypsy Melody
1936-07-27
Gypsy Melody
Overview: Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-27
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The Mudlark
1950-10-03
The Mudlark
Overview: It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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