Sydney Fairbrother
Also Known As: Emilie Sydney Cowell, Syney Fairbrother, Sydney Tapping
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Southwark, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 29, 1872
Age: 152 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 04, 1941
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Heartstrings
Overview: A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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Rope
Overview: BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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The Last Journey
Overview: Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Nell Gwyn
Overview: An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-02
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The Other Mrs. Phipps
Overview: 'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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Excess Baggage
Overview: 'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Dora
Overview: 'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-14
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Chu Chin Chow
Overview: Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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Gay Love
Overview: Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Private Secretary
Overview: A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-26
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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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Love and Hate
Overview: British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-01
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Paradise for Two
Overview: A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Bachelor's Club
Overview: A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Dreaming Lips
Overview: Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-02
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Murder on the Second Floor
Overview: A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-04
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The Return of Raffles
Overview: A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-27
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The Temperance Fête
Overview: For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-19
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Sally Bishop
Overview: A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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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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Lucky Ladies
Overview: Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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All In!
Overview: Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-29
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The Mother of Dartmoor
Overview: A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Don Quixote
Overview: Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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Rose of Tralee
Overview: An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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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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The Silver Lining
Overview: The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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Réveille
Overview: A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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Confetti
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-15
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Me and Me Moke
Overview: A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-01
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The Rotters
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-01
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Temptation's Hour
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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A Temporary Gentleman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Iron Justice
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-01
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Faith
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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Insult
Overview: 'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-27
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