Morland Graham
Also Known As: David Hugh Morland Graham, Moreland Graham, David Hugh Graham
Biography: Morland Graham was a British film actor, with a career on stage and screen spanning over 35 years. He died on 8 April 1949 after taking an overdose of aspirin while suffering from ill health and "nervous depression".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 07, 1891
Deathday: April 08, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Upturned Glass
Overview: A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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Tower of Terror
Overview: Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Esther Waters
Overview: Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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Moscow Nights
Overview: During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-05
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This England
Overview: Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-22
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Twelve Good Men
Overview: A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Freedom Radio
Overview: Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-04
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Q Planes
Overview: In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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Get Off My Foot
Overview: A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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Old Bill and Son
Overview: Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Overview: Mozart biopic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-22
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Fair Exchange
Overview: “Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-14
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Whisky Galore!
Overview: Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-16
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Ships with Wings
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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The Ghost Train
Overview: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-05
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Full Speed Ahead
Overview: A film directed by John Hunt
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-20
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Medal for the General
Overview: A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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Gaiety George
Overview: The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: 18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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The Shipbuilders
Overview: A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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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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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: 18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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The Brothers
Overview: An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-07
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The Bear
Overview: Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner. He arrives at her house claiming her late husband owed him money and he wants the debt repaid immediately. They argue and almost have a duel over the debt before they realise that they have fallen in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-11
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Where's Sally?
Overview: 'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-28
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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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