A. Bromley Davenport
Also Known As: Arthur Henry Bromley-Davenport
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 29, 1867
Age: 157 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 15, 1946
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The Farmer's Wife
Overview: Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-20
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Second Thoughts
Overview: A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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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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Murder in the Family
Overview: After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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A Sister to Assist 'Er
Overview: 'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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The Fake
Overview: 'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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The Glad Eye
Overview: 'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-01
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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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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Overview: Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-08
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London Melody
Overview: Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-04
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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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Money Means Nothing
Overview: British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Overview: In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Overview: A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Vintage Wine
Overview: The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-19
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Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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The Face at the Window
Overview: A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
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When London Sleeps
Overview: Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-22
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Dora
Overview: 'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-14
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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The Great Gay Road
Overview: A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-04
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The Cardinal
Overview: Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-04
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The Warren Case
Overview: Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-30
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Roses of Picardy
Overview: In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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Eugene Aram
Overview: A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-28
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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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A Maid of the Silver Sea
Overview: A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Love on the Dole
Overview: Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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Lost In The Legion
Overview: Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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The Blue Peter
Overview: After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Self Made Lady
Overview: Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Captivation
Overview: A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-19
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Leave It to Me
Overview: A comedy film directed by George King.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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Glamour
Overview: A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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Flat No. 9
Overview: A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-12
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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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The American Prisoner
Overview: Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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The Return of Raffles
Overview: A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-27
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Sally Bishop
Overview: A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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So You Won't Talk
Overview: The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Fox Farm
Overview: A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-04
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The Second Mr. Bush
Overview: A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-02
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: 18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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When We Are Married
Overview: The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-12
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The Starlit Garden
Overview: In Italy, a ward wins her affianced guardian by saving him from a rival's knife.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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