Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

Born: September 14, 1910
Died: July 18, 1973
in Wood Green, London, England, UK
John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like Angels One Five (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben Hur (1959) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Christopher Dockerill
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: QB VII
Character: Justice Gilroy
Released: April 29, 1974
Type: TV
A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
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Tales That Witness Madness
Title: Tales That Witness Madness
Character: Dr. Nicholas
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
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Theatre of Blood
Title: Theatre of Blood
Character: Solomon Psaltery
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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Escape to the Sun
Title: Escape to the Sun
Character: Baburin
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
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Young Winston
Title: Young Winston
Character: Mr. Welldon
Released: July 20, 1972
Type: Movie
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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The Last Lion
Title: The Last Lion
Released: May 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Captain Hoseason
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Title: Nicholas and Alexandra
Character: Count Fredericks
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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When Eight Bells Toll
Title: When Eight Bells Toll
Character: Sir Anthony Skouras
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Father Nicholas
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mr. Brocklehurst
Released: December 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.
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Waterloo
Title: Waterloo
Character: General Sir Thomas Picton
Released: October 26, 1970
Type: Movie
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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The Adventures of Gerard
Title: The Adventures of Gerard
Character: Marshal Millefleurs (Renegade English Officer)
Released: July 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
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Twinky
Title: Twinky
Character: Judge Millington-Draper
Released: January 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Title: Monte Carlo or Bust!
Character: Count Levinovitch
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Captain Bill
Released: April 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Emperor Franz Josef
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
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Great Catherine
Title: Great Catherine
Character: The British Ambassador
Released: November 29, 1968
Type: Movie
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
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Shalako
Title: Shalako
Character: Sir Charles Daggett
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Stalked
Title: Stalked
Character: The Man
Released: April 2, 1968
Type: Movie
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home to escape God. Films like this would be shown to adult church groups to stimulate discussion - such as “was this man being stalked by Jesus in wooden shoes?”.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers
Title: Poppies Are Also Flowers
Character: General Bahar
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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Judith
Title: Judith
Character: Major Lawton
Released: January 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Title: The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Character: Sir John Rampayne
Released: November 10, 1965
Type: Movie
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Character: Colonel Drexel
Released: April 13, 1965
Type: Movie
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Marlow
Released: February 15, 1965
Type: Movie
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Character: Colonel Deal
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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The Third Secret
Title: The Third Secret
Character: Sir Frederick Belline
Released: February 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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Zulu
Title: Zulu
Character: Rev. Otto Witt
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Rampage
Title: Rampage
Character: Otto Abbot
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: General Allenby
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Five Finger Exercise
Title: Five Finger Exercise
Character: Stanley Harrington
Released: April 19, 1962
Type: Movie
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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Lafayette
Title: Lafayette
Character: General Cornwallis
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Justin Post
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Two Loves
Title: Two Loves
Character: William W.J. Abercrombie
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
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The League of Gentlemen
Title: The League of Gentlemen
Character: Hyde
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Quintus Arrius
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Ben Manfred
Released: September 17, 1959
Type: TV
The Four Just Men was a 1959 Sapphire Films production for ITC Entertainment. It ran for one season of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.
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The Two-Headed Spy
Title: The Two-Headed Spy
Character: Gen. Alex Schottland
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Insp. George Gideon
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Title: The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Maj. Warden
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Fortune Is a Woman
Title: Fortune Is a Woman
Character: Oliver Branwell
Released: March 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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The Man in the Sky
Title: The Man in the Sky
Character: John Mitchell
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Supt Tom Halliday
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Touch and Go
Title: Touch and Go
Character: Jim Fletcher
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: Movie
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
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Land of the Pharaohs
Title: Land of the Pharaohs
Character: Pharaoh Khufu
Released: July 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Interrogator
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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The Seekers
Title: The Seekers
Character: Phillip Wayne
Released: June 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
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Front Page Story
Title: Front Page Story
Character: John Grant
Released: March 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Wolf Merton
Released: October 18, 1953
Type: Movie
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
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Twice Upon a Time
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Dr. Mathews
Released: July 6, 1953
Type: Movie
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp and they start to hatch a plot to get back together. - Steve Crook
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Air CO Frank
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Ericson
Released: February 24, 1953
Type: Movie
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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The Planter's Wife
Title: The Planter's Wife
Character: Jim Frazer
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Dick Searle
Released: July 29, 1952
Type: Movie
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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Angels One Five
Title: Angels One Five
Character: Group Captain 'Tiger' Small
Released: March 19, 1952
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
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Home at Seven
Title: Home at Seven
Character: Dr. Sparling
Released: March 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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No Highway
Title: No Highway
Character: Dennis Scott
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Fortune in Diamonds
Title: Fortune in Diamonds
Character: Pieter Brandt
Released: March 7, 1951
Type: Movie
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Title: The Elusive Pimpernel
Character: Prince of Wales
Released: November 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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State Secret
Title: State Secret
Character: Colonel Galcon
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Tristram Griffin
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
Character: R.B. Waring
Released: February 21, 1949
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: Lord George Murray
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
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The Fallen Idol
Title: The Fallen Idol
Character: Detective Ames
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Brigade Major Harcourt
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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The Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Mark McGill
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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Murder Will Out
Title: Murder Will Out
Character: Stamp
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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A Royal Divorce
Title: A Royal Divorce
Character: Capitaine Charles
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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Who Goes Next?
Title: Who Goes Next?
Character: Beck
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
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The Frog
Title: The Frog
Character: Capt. Gordon
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors to capitalise on the potential of cinema to increase his already considerable celebrity. His luridly titled thrillers depicting shady underworlds remained popular film sources long after his death in 1932. This lavish production boasts a distinguished cast and delivers on all fronts: from romance and exotic cabaret acts, to heaps of tension and a dramatic reveal.
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Beauty and the Barge
Title: Beauty and the Barge
Character: Lt. Seton Boyne
Released: February 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
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Peg of Old Drury
Title: Peg of Old Drury
Character: Michael O'Taffe
Released: August 27, 1935
Type: Movie
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Member of the Court (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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Death at Broadcasting House
Title: Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Herbert Evans
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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Autumn Crocus
Title: Autumn Crocus
Character: Alaric
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Norman Paull
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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The Jewel
Title: The Jewel
Character: Peter Roberts
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
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I Lived with You
Title: I Lived with You
Character: Mort
Released: June 13, 1933
Type: Movie
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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The Lost Chord
Title: The Lost Chord
Character: Dr Jim Selby
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Albert
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Joe Martin
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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Birds of Prey
Title: Birds of Prey
Character: Alfred
Released: November 18, 1930
Type: Movie
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.