Evan Thomas
Biography: From Wikipedia Evan Thomas, also known as Peter Evan Thomas was a Canadian-born British character actor, whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. He began his career in England, in Lady Windermere's Fan, written by Oscar Wilde. Born Elystan Owen Evan Thomas in Vancouver, he appeared in silent films in Great Britain. Starting in 1930, he worked in both Hollywood and England beginning in 1930, before returning permanently to the British film industry after 1946. Over his fifty-year career, he would appear in dozens of films, usually in small roles, although he did have several featured performances, as in 1928's Warned Off, and 1935's Lend Me Your Husband.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 17, 1891
Deathday: January 01, 1982
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933-11-30
Mrs. Dane's Defence
Overview: A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938-11-25
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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The Girl from Maxim's
1933-08-22
The Girl from Maxim's
Overview: A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-22
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Lend Me Your Husband
1935-01-12
Lend Me Your Husband
Overview: A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938-08-05
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Overview: Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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O.H.M.S.
1937-01-01
O.H.M.S.
Overview: American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Blonde from Singapore
1941-10-15
The Blonde from Singapore
Overview: Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-15
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For Valour
1937-03-16
For Valour
Overview: In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-16
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The Little Princess
1939-03-17
The Little Princess
Overview: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Drums of Fu Manchu
1940-03-15
Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Kidnapped
1938-05-27
Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Wisp o' the Woods
1919-08-01
Wisp o' the Woods
Overview: A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-01
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British Intelligence
1939-11-10
British Intelligence
Overview: During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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North West Mounted Police
1940-10-22
North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Inside the Lines
1930-07-05
Inside the Lines
Overview: During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-05
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The High Command
1937-08-23
The High Command
Overview: A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Ask Beccles
1933-01-01
Ask Beccles
Overview: A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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My Name Is Julia Ross
1945-11-08
My Name Is Julia Ross
Overview: Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Overview: In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-02
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1916-07-01
Lady Windermere's Fan
Overview: Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-01
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941-11-13
The Royal Mounted Patrol
Overview: Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries, presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-13
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Warned Off
1930-07-01
Warned Off
Overview: An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-01
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Women Who Play
1932-03-01
Women Who Play
Overview: In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Tin Gods
1932-07-25
Tin Gods
Overview: A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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The Buccaneer
1938-02-04
The Buccaneer
Overview: French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Lord Jeff
1938-06-17
Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Tomorrow Is Forever
1946-02-20
Tomorrow Is Forever
Overview: In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-20
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If I Were King
1938-09-28
If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938-03-18
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Overview: Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Frenchman's Creek
1944-09-20
Frenchman's Creek
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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Kitty
1945-10-16
Kitty
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Children Galore
1955-02-01
Children Galore
Overview: As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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