Lesley Brook
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 07, 2009
Popularity:
Known For:
House of Darkness
Overview: In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
Popularity:
For You Alone
Overview: Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
Popularity:
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Overview: An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
Popularity:
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
Popularity:
Night Alone
Overview: Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-13
Popularity:
I'll Walk Beside You
Overview: John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-16
Popularity:
The Viper
Overview: Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
Popularity:
The Vulture
Overview: An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
Popularity:
The Dark Stairway
Overview: “Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
Popularity:
The Man Who Made Diamonds
Overview: “Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
Popularity:
Quiet, Please
Overview: “Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
Popularity:
Side Street Angel
Overview: “Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-06
Popularity:
The Briggs Family
Overview: During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
Popularity:
Variety Jubilee
Overview: This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
Popularity:
The Trojan Brothers
Overview: Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-04
Popularity:
What's the Next Job?
Overview: Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-30
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Return of Carol Deane
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-16
Popularity: