Roddy Hughes
Also Known As: Rhodri Henry Hughes
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porthmadog, Wales, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: June 18, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 22, 1970
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Obsession
Overview: A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-03
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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 Last Days of Dolwyn
Overview: An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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Cheer Up
Overview: An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Hard Steel
Overview: A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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Meet Sexton Blake
Overview: The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Overview: A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-27
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So Well Remembered
Overview: A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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The Spaniard's Curse
Overview: A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Here Comes the Sun
Overview: When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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The Gang's All Here
Overview: John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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The Reluctant Widow
Overview: A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Honeymoon for Three
Overview: In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-13
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Make-Up
Overview: Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Poison Pen
Overview: The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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The Saint's Vacation
Overview: While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Saloon Bar
Overview: A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Overview: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Girl in the News
Overview: An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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The Proud Valley
Overview: In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-06
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The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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The Dark Road
Overview: Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-28
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Say It with Flowers
Overview: Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-22
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A Glimpse of Paradise
Overview: “Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Overview: Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-28
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Quiet Wedding
Overview: A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Overview: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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Cottage to Let
Overview: Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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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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Breakers Ahead
Overview: A British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The House in Marsh Road
Overview: When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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The Man in the White Suit
Overview: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-07
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Sea Wife
Overview: In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Fame Is the Spur
Overview: A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Overview: A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-23
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The Final Test
Overview: Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hopes to marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Music Hall
Overview: A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-26
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Dangerous Comment
Overview: A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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Salute the Toff
Overview: The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-02
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Hammer the Toff
Overview: A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Escape Route
Overview: When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Overview: Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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One Jump Ahead
Overview: Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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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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Read All About It
Overview: An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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Old Mother Riley in Business
Overview: Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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In Which We Serve
Overview: The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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The Small Back Room
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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Mystery on Bird Island
Overview: Story of four youngsters who discover birds' nest thieves on a sanctuary island.From story by Mary Cathcart Borer.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Kentucky Minstrels
Overview: 'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Men of Yesterday
Overview: A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-01
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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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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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It's a Boy
Overview: "It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Captain's Orders
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-23
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