Lloyd Pearson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 13, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 02, 1966
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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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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Overview: An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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The Angry Silence
Overview: When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Uncensored
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Incident in Shanghai
Overview: An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-24
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The Three Weird Sisters
Overview: Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Overview: A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-27
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Portrait of Clare
Overview: The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-13
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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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Let George Do It!
Overview: Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Rhythm Serenade
Overview: Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-11
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Black in the Face
Overview: Peter Butterworth, an old-fashioned sweep, finds himself vying with Mr. Crossington, the "clean" sweep, in an attempt to clean the chimneys of Mr and Mrs Tompkins' house before the Mayor arrives for tea. The rivalry results in several downfalls of soot and both sweeps are chased from the house.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Five O'Clock Finish
Overview: Comedy about a lazy mechanic who has to deliver a motor-cycle to its owner before five o'clock.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Penny Paradise
Overview: A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Passport to Pimlico
Overview: When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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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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Private Information
Overview: A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-26
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Schweik's New Adventures
Overview: Nazis are nothing to the wily good soldier Schweik (Lloyd Pearson).
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-18
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My Learned Friend
Overview: An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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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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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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Now You're Talking
Overview: Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Overview: A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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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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The Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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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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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. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-16
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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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