Hugh Williams
Also Known As: Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hugh Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was an English actor and dramatist of Welsh descent. Description above from the Wikipedia Hugh Williams licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
Birthday: March 06, 1904
Deathday: December 07, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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An Ideal Husband
Overview: A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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The Human Monster
Overview: Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Khartoum
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Overview: On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Bank Holiday
Overview: A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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The Day Will Dawn
Overview: Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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Secret Mission
Overview: World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
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The Fake
Overview: Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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The Last Journey
Overview: Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Overview: Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Take My Life
Overview: When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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Rome Express
Overview: The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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Inspector Hornleigh
Overview: When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-07
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Paper Orchid
Overview: Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh. It is perhaps most notable for an early film appearance of Sid James, later to find success through the Carry On series.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Charley's Aunt
Overview: A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-25
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Twice Upon a Time
Overview: A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-06
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Naughty Arlette
Overview: Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-29
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Outcast Lady
Overview: A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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The Blind Goddess
Overview: Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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Brief Ecstasy
Overview: A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-31
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A Girl in a Million
Overview: A man gets divorced from a nagging wife meets a girl in a million. Or is she?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-28
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The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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The Amateur Gentleman
Overview: A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-26
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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The Man Behind the Mask
Overview: A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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David Copperfield
Overview: Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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In a Monastery Garden
Overview: An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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The Jewel
Overview: A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Overview: An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-16
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Ships with Wings
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Gift Horse
Overview: Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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The Dark Stairway
Overview: “Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Windmill
Overview: The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-13
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Side Street Angel
Overview: “Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-05
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A Night in Montmartre
Overview: A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-16
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A Gentleman of Paris
Overview: A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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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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This Acting Business
Overview: A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-19
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After Dark
Overview: If it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen. They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an antique shop. When the thieves return for them, the clock has been sold! They trace it to a creepy country estate. When Hugh and the niece of one of the crooks also show up, things get hairy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-23
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The Happy Family
Overview: A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Her Last Affaire
Overview: Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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The Holly and the Ivy
Overview: An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-03
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Elinor Norton
Overview: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Let's Live Tonight
Overview: Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
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All Men Are Enemies
Overview: A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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Talk About Jacqueline
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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Premiere
Overview: In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-20
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Gypsy
Overview: Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-29
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