Philip Friend
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 20, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 01, 1987
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Enchantment
Overview: Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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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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Buccaneer's Girl
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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The Diamond Wizard
Overview: While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) assists Scotland Yard Insp. McClaren (Philip Friend) in his search for a missing atomic scientist (Paul Hardtmuth). The detective duo discovers that the key to solving both cases may rest with the scientist's daughter (Margaret Sheridan) and her fascinating diamond.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
Overview: British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Thunder on the Hill
Overview: Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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My Own True Love
Overview: Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-01
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Danger List
Overview: When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Desperate Moment
Overview: Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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The Highwayman
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-11
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The Betrayal
Overview: Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Bells Go Down
Overview: Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-16
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Inquest
Overview: A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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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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Son of Robin Hood
Overview: Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Warn That Man
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Genres: War Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-13
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The Flemish Farm
Overview: Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-06
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Smuggler's Island
Overview: An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Solitary Child
Overview: A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-09
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Background
Overview: Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-09
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The Next of Kin
Overview: Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-15
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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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Old Bill and Son
Overview: Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Dangerous Moonlight
Overview: Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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The Midas Touch
Overview: A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Stranglehold
Overview: A movie star is typecast as a ruthless gangster. His troubles begin when he gets reality confused with his job and becomes deluded into believing that he really is a mobster.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Vulture
Overview: A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Spy Hunt
Overview: Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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The Day Will Dawn
Overview: Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Overview: Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-22
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Great Day
Overview: An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-09
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Dick Turpin: Highwayman
Overview: A Hammer Films short recounting the adventures of Dick Turpin.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Sword in the Desert
Overview: First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-24
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Cloak Without Dagger
Overview: A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-31
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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 Fur Collar
Overview: A reporter feigns death, in order to trap a fugitive and uncover a spy ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Web of Suspicion
Overview: Schoolteacher Bradley Wells is wrongly accused of murdering a girl pupil, and is nearly lynched by angry townspeople.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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