Dino Galvani
Also Known As: Candido Galvanoni
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 27, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 27, 1960
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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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The Queen's Affair
Overview: Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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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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Three Steps North
Overview: An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Kitty
Overview: Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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The Vagabond Queen
Overview: The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Midnight Menace
Overview: When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-04
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Overview: Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Fugitive Lady
Overview: A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-08
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Strange Boarders
Overview: Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-01
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Those Who Love
Overview: 'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-26
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-10
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Adam and Evelyne
Overview: A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
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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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Heads We Go
Overview: A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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The Viper
Overview: Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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The Man Who Made Diamonds
Overview: “Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
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Adventurous Youth
Overview: In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
Genres: Western Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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The Price of Things
Overview: Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he realises that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-02
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Chin Chin Chinaman
Overview: A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Dizzy Limit
Overview: A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Life's a Stage
Overview: A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-12
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The Chance of a Night Time
Overview: Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-15
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Paradise
Overview: The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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The Missing Rembrandt
Overview: Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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Once bitten
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Atlantic
Overview: English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The Silver Greyhound
Overview: A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Ball at Savoy
Overview: A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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Beloved Impostor
Overview: A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Adam's Apple
Overview: An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-03
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Crime Over London
Overview: With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-21
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Shadow of the Eagle
Overview: During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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Malaga
Overview: A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Overview: Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-06
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Danger Within
Overview: Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-17
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Checkpoint
Overview: Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
Overview: From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Mr. Satan
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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