Frank Pettingell
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment. He appeared in such films as the original 1940 Gaslight (as the former detective who solves the case), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Duke of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844–1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Pettingell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 17, 1966
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Queer Cargo
Overview: The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Corridors of Blood
Overview: Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Crimson Pirate
Overview: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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My Old Dutch
Overview: Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Trial and Error
Overview: After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Escape
Overview: A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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The Card
Overview: A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-25
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Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Term of Trial
Overview: A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-16
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Up the Creek
Overview: Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-13
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The Goose Steps Out
Overview: Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Sailing Along
Overview: A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Where’s George?
Overview: A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-18
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This England
Overview: Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-22
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Red Wagon
Overview: Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
Overview: A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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The Amateur Gentleman
Overview: A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-26
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Millions
Overview: Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-21
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The Last Journey
Overview: Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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The Good Companions
Overview: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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Take My Tip
Overview: Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Excess Baggage
Overview: 'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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The Thought of Tomorrow
Overview: Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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Busman's Honeymoon
Overview: When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-22
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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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Frail Women
Overview: Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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The Medicine Man
Overview: A young man impersonates a doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Right Age to Marry
Overview: A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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Ships with Wings
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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The Big Splash
Overview: A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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The Seventh Survivor
Overview: During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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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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Hobson's Choice
Overview: A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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Jealousy
Overview: A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-28
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Once bitten
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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A Tight Corner
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Gaiety George
Overview: The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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In a Monastery Garden
Overview: An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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Get Cracking
Overview: Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-17
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Meet Me Tonight
Overview: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-09
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Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Great Game
Overview: The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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No Room at the Inn
Overview: A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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The Film That Never Was
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-02
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It's a Grand Old World
Overview: An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Value for Money
Overview: A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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Sing As We Go
Overview: When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-13
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Overview: A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-30
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Spring Handicap
Overview: A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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