Derrick De Marney
Also Known As: Derrick Raoul Edouard Alfred De Marney, Derrick de Marney, Derrick deMarney
Biography: Derrick De Marney was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a producer. He is probably best known for his starring role as a man wrongly accused of murder in the 1937 Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 21, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 18, 1978
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The Projected Man
Overview: Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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Things to Come
Overview: The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-31
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Young and Innocent
Overview: Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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The First of the Few
Overview: This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Uncle Silas
Overview: Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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Dangerous Moonlight
Overview: Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Meet Mr. Callaghan
Overview: A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Blond Cheat
Overview: Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Frenzy
Overview: A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-11
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Land Without Music
Overview: Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-07
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Flying Fifty-Five
Overview: Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Overview: Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-06
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Three Silent Men
Overview: An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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The Valley of Ghosts
Overview: 'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-21
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The March Hare
Overview: Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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The Immortal Gentleman
Overview: In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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This Is Poland
Overview: In the film, used the chronicles of war, fragments preserved in London prewar Polish films (landscape, architecture, industry), Allied supplies from Narvik, chronicles from France and material participation of Polish troops in the Battle of Britain. The film consists of two parts. The first part presents the image of Polish pre-war - an idyllic landscape, folklore, rich culture, growing industry. Part two represents the Nazi aggression, the heroic Polish soldier fighting on different fronts.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Sixty Glorious Years
Overview: Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Adventurous Youth
Overview: In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
Genres: Western Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Shadows
Overview: The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-31
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Stranglehold
Overview: A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Cafe Mascot
Overview: A young man discovers £1,000 in a taxi. The kindly man gives it to an impoverished Irish girl (Geraldine Fitzgerald) by investing it in her cafe, The Cafe Mascot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
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Once in a New Moon
Overview: When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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She Shall Have Murder
Overview: A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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The Lion Has Wings
Overview: This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Music Hall
Overview: A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-26
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The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Private's Progress
Overview: Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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The Second Mr. Bush
Overview: A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-02
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Doomsday at Eleven
Overview: A bomb is placed in a maternity home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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