Peter Bull
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Cecil Bull, DSC (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Bull, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 21, 1912
Deathday: May 20, 1984
Popularity:
Known For
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964-01-29
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Overview: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-29
Popularity:
The African Queen
1952-01-07
The African Queen
Overview: At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-07
Popularity:
Tom Jones
1963-08-24
Tom Jones
Overview: Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Genres: Comedy Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
Popularity:
Yellowbeard
1983-06-24
Yellowbeard
Overview: For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
Popularity:
Malta Story
1953-06-01
Malta Story
Overview: Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
Popularity:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972-11-20
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Overview: An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-20
Popularity:
Joseph Andrews
1977-03-09
Joseph Andrews
Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
Popularity:
The Old Dark House
1963-10-30
The Old Dark House
Overview: An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-30
Popularity:
Beau Brummell
1954-11-16
Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
Popularity:
The Captain's Paradise
1953-09-28
The Captain's Paradise
Overview: Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
Popularity:
Doctor Dolittle
1967-12-05
Doctor Dolittle
Overview: A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
Popularity:
Up the Front
1972-01-01
Up the Front
Overview: In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Popularity:
Great Expectations
1974-01-01
Great Expectations
Overview: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
Popularity:
Tom Thumb
1958-12-04
Tom Thumb
Overview: A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
Genres: Music Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
Popularity:
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969-03-29
Lock Up Your Daughters
Overview: Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-29
Popularity:
The Scapegoat
1959-08-06
The Scapegoat
Overview: An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
Popularity:
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000-10-31
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Overview: Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
Popularity:
Strange Stories
1953-01-01
Strange Stories
Overview: 'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
Popularity:
Licensed to Kill
1965-07-05
Licensed to Kill
Overview: An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-05
Popularity:
The Executioner
1970-09-06
The Executioner
Overview: A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-06
Popularity:
Cardboard Cavalier
1949-03-31
Cardboard Cavalier
Overview: Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-31
Popularity:
The Tempest
1979-09-13
The Tempest
Overview: Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-13
Popularity:
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960-11-30
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Overview: Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
Genres: Music Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-30
Popularity:
The Ware Case
1938-12-02
The Ware Case
Overview: An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
Popularity:
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972-11-22
Lady Caroline Lamb
Overview: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
Popularity:
The Beloved Vagabond
1936-08-24
The Beloved Vagabond
Overview: Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-24
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
1978-02-01
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Overview: Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
Popularity:
The Six Men
1951-08-01
The Six Men
Overview: The ‘Six Men’ are a gang of six criminals that Scotland Yard is unable to pin a charge against even though they are positive of the identities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
Popularity:
Goodbye Again
1961-05-23
Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
Popularity:
The Green Man
1956-12-21
The Green Man
Overview: Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
Popularity:
Quiet Wedding
1941-04-19
Quiet Wedding
Overview: A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
Popularity:
Dead Man's Shoes
1940-05-05
Dead Man's Shoes
Overview: An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-05
Popularity:
Oliver Twist
1948-06-28
Oliver Twist
Overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-28
Popularity:
Smart Alec
1951-03-01
Smart Alec
Overview: A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
Popularity:
Footsteps in the Fog
1955-09-14
Footsteps in the Fog
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
Popularity:
The Light Princess
1978-12-24
The Light Princess
Overview: Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-24
Popularity:
Girl Stroke Boy
1971-08-12
Girl Stroke Boy
Overview: Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-12
Popularity:
Scrooge
1951-11-28
Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
Popularity:
Group Madness
1983-06-11
Group Madness
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-11
Popularity:
As You Like It
1936-09-02
As You Like It
Overview: Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
Popularity:
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947-06-24
They Made Me a Fugitive
Overview: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
Popularity:
Follow That Man
1961-01-01
Follow That Man
Overview: A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Popularity:
You Must Be Joking
1965-08-03
You Must Be Joking
Overview: A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
Popularity:
Salute the Toff
1952-12-02
Salute the Toff
Overview: The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-02
Popularity:
The Intelligence Men
1965-04-13
The Intelligence Men
Overview: A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-13
Popularity:
Sabotage
1937-01-08
Sabotage
Overview: Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
Popularity:
The Rebel
1961-03-07
The Rebel
Overview: Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-07
Popularity:
The Turners of Prospect Road
1947-06-16
The Turners of Prospect Road
Overview: A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-16
Popularity:
Woman Hater
1948-10-13
Woman Hater
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
Popularity:
Who Done It?
1956-03-20
Who Done It?
Overview: This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-20
Popularity:
The Brute
1977-03-22
The Brute
Overview: Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diane to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-22
Popularity:
Non-Stop New York
1937-09-13
Non-Stop New York
Overview: A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-13
Popularity:
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
Popularity:
I'll Get You for This
1951-01-01
I'll Get You for This
Overview: Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
Popularity:
Young Man's Fancy
1939-07-31
Young Man's Fancy
Overview: An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-31
Popularity:
The Horse's Mouth
1958-11-11
The Horse's Mouth
Overview: Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-11
Popularity: