Campbell Singer
Also Known As: Jacob Kobel Singer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 16, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1976
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Spider's Web
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-04
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The Bond
Overview: Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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The Square Peg
Overview: Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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The Hands of Orlac
Overview: Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer – useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Dick Barton at Bay
Overview: David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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Lady in the Fog
Overview: In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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Someone at the Door
Overview: A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-30
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The Case of the Missing Scene
Overview: The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evidence (namely shot 63) disappears under mysterious circumstances. As always in these films, the case can only be solved with the help of a few bright children.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-03
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Dick Barton: Special Agent
Overview: Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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A Case For P.C. 49
Overview: A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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Home at Seven
Overview: Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-16
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The Ringer
Overview: An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-24
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The Devil's Daffodil
Overview: A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-20
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The Young and the Guilty
Overview: Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Appointment in London
Overview: Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-17
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Time Bomb
Overview: When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-20
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The Pot Carriers
Overview: New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-10
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Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Overview: Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Overview: While the Doctor plays the Trilogic Game, Steven and Dodo are forced to play seemingly childish but ultimately dangerous games with the aim of being reunited and getting back to the Tardis. This brand new animated version has been created using the original audio recordings.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-02
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The Girl on the Pier
Overview: Sometimes listed as a horror film, the British Girl on the Pier is a Spartan little melodrama starring the alluring Veronica Hurst as the title character. The wife of wax museum curator Campbell Singer, Hurst carries on with Singer's partner Ron Randell. Killing Randell, the cuckolded husband tries to hide the body among his waxworks. The police eventually catch on when Singer proves too clever for his own good. Girl on the Pier doesn't pretend to be a classic; on its own terms, it's an agreeable 65 minutes out of your life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-16
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The Yellow Balloon
Overview: A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-10
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No Trees in the Street
Overview: Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Hangman’s Wharf
Overview: A doctor is framed for murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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Emergency Call
Overview: A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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To Dorothy, a Son
Overview: Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-31
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Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Cage of Gold
Overview: The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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The Fast Lady
Overview: A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-14
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Overview: The travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, immortal entity who forces them to play a series of games, failure at which will render them his playthings for all eternity.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Overview: When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-04
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Conflict of Wings
Overview: In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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Go Kart Go
Overview: Jimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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Davy
Overview: The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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Take My Life
Overview: When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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