Gordon Begg
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 14, 1868
Age: 157 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 04, 1954
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Elstree Calling
Overview: A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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Sacrifice
Overview: 'Lady persuades her son to divorce his actress wife by implying their baby is illegitimate.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-26
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The Shadow
Overview: A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Overview: After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-05
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The Marriage of Corbal
Overview: The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-28
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What Do We Do Now?
Overview: Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Sword of Honour
Overview: A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-13
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Sons of the Sea
Overview: The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-23
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The Bandolero
Overview: When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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Piccadilly
Overview: A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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Great Expectations
Overview: In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The Sleeping Cardinal
Overview: A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-15
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Strictly Business
Overview: The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-05
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A Sinless Sinner
Overview: A forger's arrest shocks his pregnant wife, causing their daughter to suffer strange trances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-01
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The Celestial City
Overview: A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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Clothes Make the Woman
Overview: A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-04
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Where There's a Will
Overview: Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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This Week of Grace
Overview: Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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The Night of the Party
Overview: A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Lamp Still Burns
Overview: A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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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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English Without Tears
Overview: While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-28
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Medal for the General
Overview: A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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Strawberry Roan
Overview: Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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The Vengeance of Nana
Overview: 'A spurned Indian woman seeks revenge on the man who promised to marry her.' (British Film Institute)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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Married Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Stormy Weather
Overview: Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficient Mr. Bullock. By contrast, a neighbouring shop is filled with unhelpful staff overseen by an incompetent and lazy manager, Raymond Penny, who is more interested in horseracing than running his shop. Craggs is unimpressed by Penny and summons him to a meeting in London. Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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