Hugh Wakefield
Also Known As: Хью Уэйкфилд, Hugh Claude Wakefield
Biography: Hugh Wakefield (10 November 1888 – 5 December 1971) was an English film actor, who played supporting roles. He was often seen wearing a monocle. Wakefield was born in Wanstead, which was then in Essex. He also had a distinguished stage career, which began at the age of 11. City of Song (1931) was his first film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Wakefield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wanstead, Essex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 10, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 05, 1971
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Improper Duchess
Overview: The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Blithe Spirit
Overview: An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Forget Me Not
Overview: A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Fortunate Fool
Overview: A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-13
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Dreams Come True
Overview: A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-08
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One Night with You
Overview: Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-25
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Do Not Forget About Me
Overview: This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical selections from "Il Trovatore" and "Rigoletto" as well as a lullaby and some Neapolitan songs, including the title tune. Distributed by New York's Bel Canto Society (an organization of hard-core opera buffs).
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Love's a Luxury
Overview: A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Street Singer
Overview: Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Death Croons the Blues
Overview: A cabaret singer is found dead in her flat and Viscount Brent becomes a suspect. His cousin is convinced of his innocence and with a journalist investigates the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Lady in Danger
Overview: Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-27
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The Million Pound Note
Overview: An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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The Crimson Circle
Overview: Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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Aren't We All?
Overview: Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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The Crime at Blossoms
Overview: After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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The Luck of a Sailor
Overview: In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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City of Song
Overview: A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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The Sport of Kings
Overview: Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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Life Goes On
Overview: A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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18 Minutes
Overview: A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-07
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No Highway in the Sky
Overview: James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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My Heart Is Calling
Overview: Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Man They Couldn't Arrest
Overview: An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-24
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King of the Ritz
Overview: While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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The Live Wire
Overview: Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost city and civilization. The professors and sailor then find themselves fighting for their lives against pirates to escape the island alive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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No Monkey Business
Overview: To help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-21
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