Cecil Humphreys
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 20, 1883
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 06, 1947
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-19
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A Woman's Vengeance
Overview: A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-02
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Desire Me
Overview: A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-31
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Angel Street
Overview: NBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play Gaslight
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-20
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The Woman in White
Overview: Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of Sir Percival's scheming in order to get her fortune.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-24
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Irish Luck
Overview: Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes friends. The Earl of Killarney, Fitzhugh's uncle, who is on his deathbed, wishes to see his favorite nephew and wipe out past animosities. Fitzhugh, in the meantime, has disappeared, and his sister, Lady Gwendolyn, persuades Tom to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-07
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Crimson Dynasty
Overview: Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-04
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It's a King
Overview: 'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Dick Turpin
Overview: The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The Silver Spoon
Overview: “A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-04
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Accused
Overview: Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Fair Exchange
Overview: “Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-14
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Dick Turpin's Ride to York
Overview: A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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Unfinished Symphony
Overview: Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue. English-language version of "Leise flehen meine Lieder."
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-23
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77 Park Lane
Overview: When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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The Old Man
Overview: 'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Broken Melody
Overview: An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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Adventure Ltd.
Overview: A British adventure film directed by George King
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-31
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Chick
Overview: The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-21
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The Swindler
Overview: A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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The Romance of Lady Hamilton
Overview: An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Dying Detective
Overview: Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-08
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The Glorious Adventure
Overview: An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-23
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The Shadow of Evil
Overview: A burglar blackmails an actress who thinks she killed her husband.
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Original Language: en
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The Tavern Knight
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Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Lifeguardsman
Overview: An idiot heir helps a wounded prince save the princess from forced marriage to a usurper.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-01
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The Sorrows Of Satan
Overview: The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-02
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