Leslie Dwyer
Also Known As: Leslie Gilbert Dwyer
Biography: Leslie Dwyer was an English film and tv actor, best known to modern audiences for his role as Mr Partridge, the miserable Punch and Judy man with a dislike of children in television's Hi-de-Hi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Catford, London, England, UK
Birthday: August 28, 1906
Deathday: December 29, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Way Ahead
Overview: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Die, Monster, Die!
Overview: A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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Double Confession
Overview: The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-30
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United States
Overview: Military training film, narrated by David Niven during his time away from Hollywood to serve in the Army, and produced to instruct British troops in the history of their American allies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The Good Die Young
Overview: An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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Roadhouse Girl
Overview: A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Dominique
Overview: The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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Under Night Streets
Overview: After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to travel on. Including brushing dust from ventilation ducts, ‘fluffers’ cleaning up rubbish, routine rail replacement and fixing a broken rail discovered at 3.30am.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-08
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Overview: Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Room in the House
Overview: Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-25
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There Is Another Sun
Overview: Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Now Barabbas
Overview: A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-24
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It's Not Cricket
Overview: Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Stormy Crossing
Overview: After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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When The Bough Breaks
Overview: The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-19
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Poet's Pub
Overview: A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-05
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Piccadilly Incident
Overview: A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-24
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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Lilli Marlene
Overview: Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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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 Hour of 13
Overview: 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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The Lamp Still Burns
Overview: A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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Judgment Deferred
Overview: A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Where There's a Will
Overview: A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Overview: The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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The Black Rider
Overview: When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Midnight Episode
Overview: A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed wallet falls out of a vehicle and he helps himself to some of the money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Left Right and Centre
Overview: At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Temptation Harbour
Overview: The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-27
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My Wife's Lodger
Overview: My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Crooks and Coronets
Overview: Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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Not So Dusty
Overview: Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-16
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A Hole Lot of Trouble
Overview: Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-31
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Brenda
Overview: Brenda is 20 and has moved back to her parents' house in an attempt for some stability in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-11
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A Touch of the Victorians
Overview: An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-05
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The 39 Steps
Overview: In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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The Bad Lord Byron
Overview: Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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Lionheart
Overview: A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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I've Gotta Horse
Overview: A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-25
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Waxworks
Overview: The children visit a waxworks museum near closing time, whilst their grandmother does her shopping. Alice the chimp gets lost, and the children hide as attendants close the building for the night. Meanwhile, an attempt is being made to steal the day's takings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Smart Alec
Overview: A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Night Boat to Dublin
Overview: British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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Laughter in Paradise
Overview: When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Eyewitness
Overview: After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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The Goose Steps Out
Overview: Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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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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Perfect Strangers
Overview: After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-15
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Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Overview: The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside an alien peepshow machine which showman Vorg and his assistant Shirna have brought to amuse the populace of the planet Inter Minor. Can they escape Vorg and the ferocious Drashigs?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Dodging the Column
Overview: The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the rigger in charge and one of the tractor drivers, expresses the humour and resourcefulness with which these transport workers tackle their job; and the camera has captured moments of beauty as well as some amusing episodes in this journey of the longest load to travel by road in Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-02
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They Flew Alone
Overview: The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-29
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Yellow Canary
Overview: A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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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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Seventy Deadly Pills
Overview: A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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The Calendar
Overview: The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-05
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The Peddler
Overview: One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-23
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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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