D.A. Clarke-Smith
Also Known As: Douglas Alexander Clarke-Smith, Douglas A. Clarke-Smith
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK
Birthday: August 02, 1888
Deathday: March 12, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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 Sword and the Rose
Overview: Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-23
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Illegal
Overview: This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-26
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The Perfect Flaw
Overview: A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-31
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Flying Fifty-Five
Overview: Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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The Feathered Serpent
Overview: A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Help Yourself
Overview: British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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Turkey Time
Overview: A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Splinters in the Air
Overview: An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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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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A Cup of Kindness
Overview: A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-07
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Bracelets
Overview: A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-01
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Follow the Lady
Overview: A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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High Finance
Overview: Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-21
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Mayfair Girl
Overview: An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Lorna Doone
Overview: High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-09
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Designing Women (What Shall It Profit A Woman?)
Overview: A woman finds success in the fashion industry after the death of her wastrel husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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Murder by Rope
Overview: Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-25
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Shadows
Overview: The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-31
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Michael and Mary
Overview: A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-29
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The Old Man
Overview: 'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Frightened Lady
Overview: A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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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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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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A Voice Said Goodnight
Overview: A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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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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Passing Shadows
Overview: The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Frieda
Overview: An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-19
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The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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The Ghoul
Overview: British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-01
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Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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The Thirteenth Candle
Overview: Investigation into the murder of a village squire.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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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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