Jerry Desmonde
Also Known As: Джерри Десмонд
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jerry Desmonde (20 July 1908 - 11 February 1967) was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom. Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Desmonde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, England
Birthday: July 20, 1908
Deathday: February 11, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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
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A King in New York
Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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Trouble in Store
Overview: Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-14
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Up in the World
Overview: Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Alf's Baby
Overview: Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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The Switch
Overview: A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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The Beauty Jungle
Overview: A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-25
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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
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Man of the Moment
Overview: Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Early Bird
Overview: Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-30
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Follow a Star
Overview: Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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A Stitch in Time
Overview: An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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London Town
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
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Ramsbottom Rides Again
Overview: Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Overview: An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-09
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Stolen Hours
Overview: A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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Carry On Regardless
Overview: After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Gonks Go Beat
Overview: Bizarre sixties fable resembling Romeo and Juliet, but instead of Montagues and Capulets, there are two musical communities, one who like rock and roll and one who like ballads, who become reunited through the love between a couple who love across their grouping. It features little furry puppets called Gonks.
Genres: Music Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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A Kind of Loving
Overview: As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
Overview: A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out to be a silly miscommunication of the English language.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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