D.J. Williams
Also Known As: David John Williams
Biography: British actor and director. Born on March 25, 1868 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales as David John Williams.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 25, 1868
Age: 157 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 26, 1949
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The Roof
Overview: Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Elephant Boy
Overview: In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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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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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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It's Never Too Late to Mend
Overview: An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Overview: In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-18
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Overview: The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Wings of the Morning
Overview: A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Tomorrow We Live
Overview: British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-05
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The Pointing Finger
Overview: A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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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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Boys Will Be Girls
Overview: Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-24
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Captain Bill
Overview: A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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The Challenge
Overview: Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Genres: Romance Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-14
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The Beloved Vagabond
Overview: Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-24
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For Valour
Overview: In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-16
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Keep Fit
Overview: A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-31
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My Song for You
Overview: In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-30
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Road House
Overview: Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Genres: Crime Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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Look Up and Laugh
Overview: Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-13
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The Citadel
Overview: Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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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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Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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The Admiral's Secret
Overview: A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Anything Might Happen
Overview: British crime film directed by George A. Cooper.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-12
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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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Doctor's Orders
Overview: Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Much Too Shy
Overview: A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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The Ghost Train
Overview: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-05
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Cotton Queen
Overview: The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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John Halifax
Overview: Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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Unpublished Story
Overview: Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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The Lash
Overview: One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-21
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Pastor Hall
Overview: The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-28
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
Overview: Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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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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Wanted!
Overview: A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Overview: Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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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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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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