Tom Gill
Also Known As: Thomas James Gill
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tyneside, England, UK
Birthday: July 26, 1916
Deathday: July 22, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Night Caller
Overview: The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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The Limping Man
Overview: An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-11
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Up the Creek
Overview: Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-13
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Wicked as They Come
Overview: A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-22
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No Smoking
Overview: A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Watch It, Sailor!
Overview: Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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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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The High Command
Overview: A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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This Man Is News
Overview: A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Overview: Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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For Men Only
Overview: Freddie Horne loves his job working for a trendy women’s fashion magazine, but his pretty blonde fiancée is getting jealous. To smooth things over Freddie takes a job with the Puritan Magazine Group, an organisation hell-bent on promoting moral reform and ‘family values’. However, the caddish chief executive Miles Fanthorpe is not all he seems. Fanthorpe’s country house is actually full of scantily-clad young women, and he is secretly publishing a girlie magazine!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-16
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Queen of Hearts
Overview: A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-04
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The First Gentleman
Overview: The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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Journey to Murder
Overview: Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing Bottle (1969).
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Black Orchid
Overview: Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Carry On Constable
Overview: With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sgt. Wilkins will be transferred.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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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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Carry on Admiral
Overview: Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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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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Design for Murder
Overview: When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-27
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Further Up the Creek
Overview: The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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The Iron Maiden
Overview: The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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The Weak and the Wicked
Overview: Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Something in the City
Overview: A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Love in Pawn
Overview: A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Make Mine a Million
Overview: Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Echo of Diana
Overview: When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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Simon and Laura
Overview: A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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The Reluctant Bride
Overview: A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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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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The Naked Truth
Overview: Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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The Steel Key
Overview: An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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Double Bunk
Overview: When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-06
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Smokescreen
Overview: A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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Behind the Headlines
Overview: Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Stranger in Town
Overview: A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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