Graham Moffatt
Also Known As: Graham Victor Harold Moffatt, Graham Moffat
Biography: Moffatt was born on 6 December 1919 in Hammersmith, West London (England). He first worked as a call boy at Shepherd's Bush Studios, until actor Tom Walls suggested him for a bit part in the 1934 film A Cup of Kindness. Moffatt appeared in five more films, in mostly uncredited, minor roles, before getting his big break in Will Hay's Where There's Will (1936), then going on to appear in many more of Hay's films, alongside Moore Marriott.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 06, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 02, 1965
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All In!
Overview: Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-29
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Ask a Policeman
Overview: The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-29
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
Overview: Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-05
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Back-Room Boy
Overview: Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-15
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Convict 99
Overview: A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-26
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Good Morning, Boys!
Overview: Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-27
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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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The Second Mate
Overview: Murderous smugglers kidnap a troublesome Bargemans son in this British crime drama, filmed on the Thames.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Old Bones of the River
Overview: Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R.P for short), and dedicated to spreading education amongst the natives of colonial Africa. As he arrives (still trying to learn the native language via recordings), Professor Tibbetts is tricked into sneaking a gin still into the country by a local prince. Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb and Tibbetts finds himself sporting a mortarboard and safari shorts due to the heat. When the Commissioner falls ill with a dose of malaria, Tibbetts is forced to take over his duties, which include collecting the taxes. Upriver, he finds an old paddlesteamer operated by Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the threesome rescue a baby from death by sacrifice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Time Flies
Overview: The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-08
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Where's That Fire
Overview: Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Overview: Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Owd Bob
Overview: Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Overview: The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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O-Kay for Sound
Overview: Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-09
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Doctor Syn
Overview: A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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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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The Dragon of Pendragon Castle
Overview: Mr. Ferber is an old man living in Pendragon Castle along with his two grandchildren Bobby and Paddy who find a small dragon to heat their castle. The dragon helps them to find hidden treasure in the castle.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-04
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Gangway
Overview: Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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Inn for Trouble
Overview: Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-31
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I Thank You
Overview: Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-20
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Hi Gang!
Overview: Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Windbag the Sailor
Overview: Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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A Canterbury Tale
Overview: Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Genres: Drama Mystery War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Overview: Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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Woman Hater
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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The Clairvoyant
Overview: A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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Welcome, Mr Washington
Overview: Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
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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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