Frederick Burtwell
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bermondsey, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 20, 1893
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 16, 1948
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Uncle Silas
Overview: Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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Murder Will Out
Overview: Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-13
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The Dark Tower
Overview: While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-18
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Midshipman Easy
Overview: Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Overview: After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-05
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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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Doctor Syn
Overview: A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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Penny Paradise
Overview: A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Silent Passenger
Overview: A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Laburnum Grove
Overview: To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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A Girl Must Live
Overview: A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-24
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I See Ice
Overview: George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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Feather Your Nest
Overview: A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Night Shadows
Overview: Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he picks a fight with her and an aggressive client, Julot, leading to tragedy for all three.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-08
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The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Confidential Lady
Overview: Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent to offer to write up Jill's story.....
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Silver Fleet
Overview: Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-15
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The Path of Glory
Overview: Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-08
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The Vulture
Overview: An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
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The Singing Cop
Overview: “Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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His Brother’s Keeper
Overview: “A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Dangerous Medicine
Overview: After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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Simply Terrific
Overview: Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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It’s Not Cricket
Overview: “Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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Other People's Sins
Overview: A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-24
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Inside the Room
Overview: A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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Educated Evans
Overview: Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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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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Partners in Crime
Overview: A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-02
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Overview: In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-30
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Read All About It
Overview: An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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The Laughing Lady
Overview: A musical set during the French Revolution.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Everything Happens to Me
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Gypsy
Overview: Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-29
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