Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 23, 1900
Deathday: January 11, 1964
Popularity:
1935-09-01
Overview: While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
Popularity:
1943-10-25
Overview: An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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1941-04-01
Overview: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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1947-10-30
Overview: The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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1935-09-01
Overview: Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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1937-07-05
Overview: Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-05
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1940-06-21
Overview: Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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1933-01-01
Overview: Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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1949-03-31
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
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1955-12-15
Overview: Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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1943-01-01
Overview: Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
Popularity:
1938-10-31
Overview: The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-31
Popularity:
1946-09-30
Overview: Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as merely an understudy and bit player. His faithful daughter pulls a few fast ones in order to get her dad back on stage in a starring role....
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-30
Popularity:
1937-09-01
Overview: American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
Popularity:
1928-08-17
Overview: Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-17
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1932-10-18
Overview: A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
Popularity:
1933-06-03
Overview: A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
Popularity:
1940-12-14
Overview: Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-14
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1930-02-03
Overview: 'Convict dreams he runs marriage agency and tries to supply wife for man already married.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-03
Popularity:
1933-03-01
Overview: An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
Popularity:
1933-10-01
Overview: Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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1943-10-25
Overview: An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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1934-05-07
Overview: A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-07
Popularity:
1934-09-01
Overview: It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trains. Allan has his song-writing friend Bill to write a song of the incident and he has it broadcast. Juliet, through the hints provided in the song, responds and comes to Allan's home, where he is working on a safety-match invention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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1960-10-01
Overview: The efforts of a female Customs Officer to challenge smugglers who hide illicit liquor in a steam roller.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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1933-07-28
Overview: A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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1937-07-19
Overview: An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
Popularity:
1938-03-01
Overview: Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
Popularity:
1935-05-30
Overview: A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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1934-07-16
Overview: An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
Popularity:
1938-01-01
Overview: Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
Popularity:
1937-06-07
Overview: “Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
Popularity:
1936-09-30
Overview: “A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
Popularity:
1932-03-16
Overview: Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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1932-06-27
Overview: A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-27
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1932-10-31
Overview: Mrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
Popularity:
1950-09-01
Overview: A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
Popularity:
1936-04-28
Overview: 'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-28
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