Alf Goddard
Also Known As: Alfred Goddard
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 28, 1896
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 23, 1981
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Convict 99
Overview: A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-26
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Carry On!
Overview: 'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-02
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The Last Post
Overview: 'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-11
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A Sister to Assist 'Er
Overview: 'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: '1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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A Window in London
Overview: A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
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Owd Bob
Overview: Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Night Journey
Overview: A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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The Ware Case
Overview: An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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You Know What Sailors Are
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-14
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The Pride of the Force
Overview: This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Green Cockatoo
Overview: A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Alf's Button
Overview: A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Murder in Soho
Overview: A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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The Squeaker
Overview: London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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High Treason
Overview: The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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Convoy
Overview: A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-28
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Luck of the Navy
Overview: With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-27
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Balaclava
Overview: A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-06
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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It's a Bet
Overview: A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Let's Be Famous
Overview: An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-22
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Lost In The Legion
Overview: Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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The Nipper
Overview: A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Bed and Breakfast
Overview: A newlywed couple have a fight, and in order to get even with one another, each decides to take up with a lover but without actually going through with "the deed".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-22
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Splinters in the Navy
Overview: To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-09
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East Lynne on the Western Front
Overview: During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-13
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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The Happy Ending
Overview: A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Overview: A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-25
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The Third String
Overview: A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Much Too Shy
Overview: A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Spy for a Day
Overview: During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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St. Martin's Lane
Overview: On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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Song of Freedom
Overview: John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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King Solomon's Mines
Overview: White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-17
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Smashing Through
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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The Way Ahead
Overview: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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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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They Met in the Dark
Overview: A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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South American George
Overview: To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Downhill
Overview: Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-24
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No Limit
Overview: George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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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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