Henry Kendall
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Biography: From Wikipedia Henry Kendall, (28 May 1897 – 9 June 1962) was an English stage and film actor, theatre director and an immaculately stylish revue artiste. Kendall was born in London in 1897 and educated at the City of London School. He made his first appearance on the stage in September 1914 at the Lyceum Theatre, playing a 'super' in Tommy Atkins. He had a distinguished war career, serving as a Captain in the Royal Air Force from 1916 to 1919, and on demobilisation was awarded the Royal Air Force Cross. He played the leading role of Reggie Ogden in the film The Shadow in 1933, and also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'bravest failure', Rich and Strange, US title East of Shanghai (1931).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Streatham Hill, London, England, UK
Birthday: May 27, 1897
Deathday: June 09, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Rich and Strange
Overview: Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-10
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Overview: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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The Shadow of the Cat
Overview: Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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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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The Voice of Merrill
Overview: A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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The Flaw
Overview: 'Poisoner's victim turns tables.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-02
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The Ghost Camera
Overview: When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-31
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Take a Chance
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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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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Twelve Good Men
Overview: A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Overview: A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Death on the Set
Overview: A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-29
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Nothing Barred
Overview: Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Counsel's Opinion
Overview: Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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Great Stuff
Overview: A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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29 Acacia Avenue
Overview: The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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The Girl in Possession
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
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The Compulsory Wife
Overview: “Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends. The hosts are delayed and so the guests remain unattended. A burglar breaks in and ensuing complications compel the girl to pose as a wife.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-09
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It’s Not Cricket
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
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Side Street Angel
Overview: “Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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Death at Broadcasting House
Overview: An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Butler's Dilemma
Overview: Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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French Leave
Overview: During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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The Flying Fool
Overview: Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The House Opposite
Overview: A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-22
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Watch Beverly
Overview: A British diplomat becomes entangled with a ring of international criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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The Innocents of Chicago
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-05
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School for Husbands
Overview: A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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Three Witnesses
Overview: At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Man Outside
Overview: A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Helter Skelter
Overview: A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Overview: Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-13
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King of the Ritz
Overview: While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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Timbuctoo
Overview: 'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Lend Me Your Wife
Overview: 'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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