Oliver Johnston
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Birthday: April 29, 1888
Deathday: December 22, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Countess from Hong Kong
Overview: A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-05
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A King in New York
Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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The Tomb of Ligeia
Overview: Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-29
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Kidnapped
Overview: Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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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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Dangerous Voyage
Overview: A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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A Touch of Larceny
Overview: After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Francis of Assisi
Overview: In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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Island of Love
Overview: Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Room in the House
Overview: Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-25
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Tale of Three Women
Overview: A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Stolen Life
Overview: Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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The Good Beginning
Overview: After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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It!
Overview: After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Web of Evidence
Overview: A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Backfire!
Overview: Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Siege of Manchester
Overview: A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-31
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Kate Plus Ten
Overview: Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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The Hypnotist
Overview: Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-29
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Son of Robin Hood
Overview: Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Indiscreet
Overview: Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Nowhere to Go
Overview: A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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Johnson Over Jordan
Overview: Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-04
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: American horror television movie from 1956.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-03
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Raising the Wind
Overview: 'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Dr. Crippen
Overview: A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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