J.H. Roberts
Also Known As: John Henry Roberts, John H. Roberts, John Roberts, J. H. Roberts, F.H. Roberts, H.H. Roberts
Biography: J.H. Roberts (full name John Henry Roberts) was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a film producer and television director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 01, 1961
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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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Alibi
Overview: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-28
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The Divorce of Lady X
Overview: The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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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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The Morals of Marcus
Overview: A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-11
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The Door with Seven Locks
Overview: A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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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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Uncensored
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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It's a Boy
Overview: "It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Alf's Button Afloat
Overview: Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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The Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Overview: A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Overview: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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High Finance
Overview: Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-21
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The Constant Nymph
Overview: Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-20
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Streets of New York
Overview: A financial drama set in New York. After the unexpected death of Captain Fairweather, who has lost all his money to a banker, his widow and children fall further and further into misery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-03
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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The Luck of a Sailor
Overview: In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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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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A Safe Affair
Overview: A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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White Face
Overview: A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Juggernaut
Overview: An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-08
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Blanche Fury
Overview: Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-19
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The Mill on the Floss
Overview: Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-09
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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The Green Pack
Overview: A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-11
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Marry Me
Overview: The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-07
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The Dark Tower
Overview: While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-18
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Uneasy Terms
Overview: Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-06
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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Quartet
Overview: Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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