Alexander Gauge
Also Known As: Alexander Ralph Gauge
Biography: Alexander Gauge was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1955 to 1959. Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China, Gauge was a well-known English character actor. Gauge attended school in California before moving to England.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wenchow, China
Birthday: July 29, 1914
Deathday: August 29, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Penny Princess
Overview: A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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The Iron Petticoat
Overview: Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Take Me As I Am
Overview: The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Another version of the Dickens classic. Originally an episode of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens. Later released on home video on it's own.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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The Blazing Caravan
Overview: The body of a travelling salesman is found underneath a burning caravan, and Scotland Yard is convinced it's murder! But is everything as it seems?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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No Smoking
Overview: A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Fast and Loose
Overview: An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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The Hornet's Nest
Overview: Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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House of Blackmail
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Murder in the Cathedral
Overview: Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-10
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Breakaway
Overview: When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-16
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The Interrupted Journey
Overview: When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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The Passionate Stranger
Overview: Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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Counterspy
Overview: While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-27
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Nothing Barred
Overview: Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Mystery on Bird Island
Overview: Story of four youngsters who discover birds' nest thieves on a sanctuary island.From story by Mary Cathcart Borer.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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The Green Man
Overview: Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Martin Luther
Overview: A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Before I Wake
Overview: A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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Double Exposure
Overview: A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Will Any Gentleman...?
Overview: A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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The Great Game
Overview: The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Tiger by the Tail
Overview: On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on him. This is only the start of his troubles, as Anna worked for a criminal organisation who know Desmond has now got her valuable contacts list.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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The Reluctant Bride
Overview: A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Port of Escape
Overview: Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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The Square Ring
Overview: Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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