Leslie Perrins
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leslie Perrins (October 7, 1901 – December 13, 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. In his long career, he appeared in well over 60 films. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham, England and died in Esher, England. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Perrins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, U
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Birthday: October 07, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 13, 1962
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Idol of Paris

Overview: The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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Sunshine Ahead

Overview: 'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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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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A Run for Your Money

Overview: Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-23
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The Big Frame

Overview: An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

Overview: Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-24
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Early to Bed

Overview: 'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rented room is next to a cinema with its frankfurter-munching projectionist and romantic musical numbers that seem to permeate their lives. Might they meet and fall in love?' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-08
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The Gang's All Here

Overview: John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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The Village Squire

Overview: Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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The Pointing Finger

Overview: A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Rhythm in the Air

Overview: A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses his balance and falls.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-29
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The High Command

Overview: A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Wanted by Scotland Yard

Overview: A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Blake the Lawbreaker

Overview: A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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The Clue of the Second Goblet

Overview: A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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I'll Turn to You

Overview: When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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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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Tudor Rose

Overview: The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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The Roof

Overview: Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Women Aren't Angels

Overview: Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-18
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The Scotland Yard Mystery

Overview: A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-03
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The Lost Chord

Overview: 'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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Luck of the Navy

Overview: With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-27
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Grip of the Strangler

Overview: A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-11
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I Killed the Count

Overview: Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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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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The Rocks of Valpre

Overview: A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-16
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Suspected Person

Overview: After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-01
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The Man Who Changed His Name

Overview: A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Sensation

Overview: Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-16
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Secret Lives

Overview: A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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No Exit

Overview: A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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Gay Love

Overview: Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Open All Night

Overview: Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Betrayal

Overview: British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Leave It to Smith

Overview: A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-13
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Blind Folly

Overview: A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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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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The Calendar

Overview: Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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The Rosary

Overview: A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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The Sleeping Cardinal

Overview: A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-15
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The House of Unrest

Overview: A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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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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The Price of Folly

Overview: When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Overview: Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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The Lash

Overview: One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-21
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Fortune Is a Woman

Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?

Overview: Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13

Overview: Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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The Turners of Prospect Road

Overview: A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-16
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Guilty?

Overview: Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-10
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Man on the Run

Overview: An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Immediate Possession

Overview: A haunted house is put up for sale, who will be the buyer?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-10
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Southern Roses

Overview: A musical comedy of false identities.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
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Lucky Days

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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All At Sea

Overview: Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-04
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