Henry B. Longhurst
Also Known As: Henry Longhurst, Henry Birt Longhurst
Biography: Henry B. Longhurst (February 1891 in Brighton, Sussex – 11 April 1970 in Reading, Berkshire) was a British actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 07, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 11, 1970
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
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A Place of One's Own
Overview: An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-20
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Avenging Hand
Overview: A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-16
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Crackerjack
Overview: London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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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
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Circus of Fear
Overview: A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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Touch and Go
Overview: When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Abdul the Damned
Overview: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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Jack of All Trades
Overview: In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Bulldog Jack
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
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The Stable Door
Overview: This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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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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My Lucky Star
Overview: 'Shopgirl posing as film star loves porter posing as artist.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-27
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Old Mother Riley, MP
Overview: Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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Mr. What's-His-Name?
Overview: A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Gasbags
Overview: It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
Genres: War Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-01
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The Quatermass Xperiment
Overview: The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Chin Chin Chinaman
Overview: A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Crooked Lady
Overview: An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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A Safe Proposition
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-28
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Lucky Jim
Overview: Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-17
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A Touch of Larceny
Overview: After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Overview: Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-08
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The Long Dark Hall
Overview: A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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When London Sleeps
Overview: Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-22
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Brothers in Law
Overview: Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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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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Let Me Explain, Dear
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
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The Price of Silence
Overview: Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-06
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Old Mother Riley at Home
Overview: Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-24
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Private's Progress
Overview: Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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Dangerous Ground
Overview: Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Perfect Strangers
Overview: After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-15
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The Night We Got the Bird
Overview: Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-03
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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His Excellency
Overview: A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-22
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Over the Garden Wall
Overview: An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-20
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A French Mistress
Overview: The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-25
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Wedding Rehearsal
Overview: The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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