Tom Helmore
Also Known As: Thomas Percy Helmore
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tom Helmore (4 January 1904 – 12 September 1995) was an English film actor. He appeared in over 50 films between 1927 and 1972, including three directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He was born in London and died in Longboat Key, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Helmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England
Adult: No
Birthday: January 04, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 12, 1995
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Vertigo
Overview: A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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The Time Machine
Overview: A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Shadow on the Wall
Overview: Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia's husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and end up on death row. Later Dell, finding out that David's young daughter Susan was witness to the crime and is undergoing psychiatric treatment, plans to eliminate her before her memory returns.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Trouble Along the Way
Overview: Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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Malaya
Overview: After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-27
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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The Man in the Net
Overview: An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-10
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Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Flipper's New Adventure
Overview: While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called by most) is away, Sandy learns that the family home, built on state land, is being torn down to make way for a highway. In turn, Sandy would be sent to live with relatives, while Flipper would be sent to the seaquarium permanently. Not wanting to be separated from Flipper, Sandy, using his skiff, runs away with Flipper. A distraught Po returns home to look for his son. Meanwhile, the Hopewell family from Britain are vacationing in the area. Their sailboat is hijacked by three escaped convicts, who take the father, Halsey, hostage, and set the three Hopewell women - mother Julia, and teen-aged daughters Gwen and Penny - adrift, they who eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding... Written by Huggo
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Three Daring Daughters
Overview: Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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Let's Do It Again
Overview: Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-16
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The Riverside Murder
Overview: This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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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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Count Your Blessings
Overview: Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-23
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The Shadow
Overview: Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-27
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Secret Agent
Overview: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-31
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This Could Be the Night
Overview: To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Two Way Street
Overview: 'Bird fancier's daughter loves nobleman whom her cockney fiancé robs of necklace.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-10
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The King's Cup
Overview: 'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-02
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Up for the Derby
Overview: 'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-20
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The Right Age to Marry
Overview: A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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The Barton Mystery
Overview: British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Lucy Gallant
Overview: A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-20
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Easy Riches
Overview: A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-30
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Above Rubies
Overview: In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-11
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Leave It to Me
Overview: A comedy film directed by George King.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
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My Wife's Family
Overview: Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-03
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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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The Ring
Overview: Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-28
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White Cargo
Overview: The manager of a rubber plantation marries a native and she tries to poison him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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