Ian McLean
Also Known As: Ian Maclean
Biography: Ian McLean (7 December 1887 – 1978) was an English stage and film actor. He is sometimes credited as Ian Maclean. He played supporting roles in around thirty British films, frequently playing police officers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 07, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 01, 1978
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Thank Evans
Overview: An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-16
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Overview: During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-01
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That’s The Ticket
Overview: Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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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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Marigold
Overview: Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Overview: An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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The Street Singer
Overview: Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Jack of All Trades
Overview: In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Dreaming
Overview: When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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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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Mayfair Melody
Overview: “Romantic comedy of a motor factory mechanic encouraged to train his voice by the daughter of the magnate.” - BFI.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Thistledown
Overview: The Viennese bride of a Scottish peer is driven away by suspicion and unfriendliness from his family. Famous, she buys the estate and her husband returns to be reconciled with her and the son of whom he never knew.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Quiet, Please
Overview: “Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
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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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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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Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Story of Shirley Yorke
Overview: Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Headline
Overview: A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-16
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Calling Paul Temple
Overview: Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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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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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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Here Comes the Sun
Overview: When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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Appointment with Crime
Overview: Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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The Return of Carol Deane
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-16
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