Austin Trevor
Also Known As: Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
Birthday: October 07, 1897
Deathday: January 22, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lord Edgware Dies
Overview: A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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Black Coffee
Overview: Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-24
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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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Father Brown
Overview: Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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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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As You Like It
Overview: Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-25
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
Overview: Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Death at Broadcasting House
Overview: An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Man from Chicago
Overview: 'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-22
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Dangerous Exile
Overview: Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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Royal Cavalcade
Overview: Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
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Dusty Ermine
Overview: A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Konga
Overview: Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Broken Melody
Overview: A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-15
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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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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Overview: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Overview: A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Escape!
Overview: When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-28
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The Silent Passenger
Overview: A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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To Paris with Love
Overview: A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Beloved Vagabond
Overview: Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-24
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Knight Without Armour
Overview: British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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Under Your Hat
Overview: In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Abandon Ship
Overview: After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-12
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The W Plan
Overview: A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-25
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The Big Blockade
Overview: Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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The Red Shoes
Overview: In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-06
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Mimi
Overview: A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-28
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Tons of Trouble
Overview: An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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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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The Seventh Survivor
Overview: During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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The Briggs Family
Overview: During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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Heaven Is Round the Corner
Overview: A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-10
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At the Villa Rose
Overview: Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-05
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The Chinese Puzzle
Overview: A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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The Crooked Lady
Overview: An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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Inside the Room
Overview: A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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A Safe Proposition
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-28
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Overview: Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Dark Journey
Overview: Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Genres: Thriller War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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So Long at the Fair
Overview: Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Lisbon Story
Overview: A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Genres: Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-20
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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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The New Lot
Overview: A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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On Secret Service
Overview: Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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The Alphabet Murders
Overview: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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Sabotage
Overview: Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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The Naked Truth
Overview: Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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Never Back Losers
Overview: Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Surprise Package
Overview: Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-29
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Overview: Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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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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Law and Disorder
Overview: On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-06
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Parisian Life
Overview: A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-28
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Parisian Life
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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