Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie

Born: January 19, 1878
Died: May 9, 1968
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator; He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore.

Later in life he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He had been a long time collector of the works of Robert Burns.

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Title: Les Misérables
Released: October 22, 1967
Type: TV
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: General
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Dodo
Released: December 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
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Brigadoon
Title: Brigadoon
Character: Mr. Lundie
Released: October 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by all who find it.
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Title: United!
Released: October 4, 1965
Type: TV
United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1. The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division football team, Brentwich United. The football scenes were filmed on the grounds of Stoke City with Jimmy Hill acting as a technical advisor, and the efforts to achieve authenticity saw the show being criticised by the then management of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who complained that the series was based on their team. United! was not a success, and was cancelled after two series. The programme was generally considered to be too soft to appeal to male viewers, and too male-oriented for the female soap opera audience. As was common television practice of the time, the series' episodes were wiped, and none of its 147 episodes are believed to have survived. Created by Anthony Cornish, other writers on the programme included Gerry Davis, Brian Hayles, Malcolm Hulke and John Lucarotti. The directors included Innes Lloyd and Derek Martinus. Aside from Cornish, all of these individuals also worked on Doctor Who concurrent with their involvement in United!.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: The Doll Maker
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Title: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Character: Emcee
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: General Sir Hector McGregor
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Who Was Maddox?
Title: Who Was Maddox?
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Title: The Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: Senator
Released: March 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
Title: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Character: Grandpa Stirling
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
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West 11
Title: West 11
Character: Gash
Released: October 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
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Billy Liar
Title: Billy Liar
Character: Duxbury
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
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Murder at the Gallop
Title: Murder at the Gallop
Character: Old Enderby
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Titus
Released: June 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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The Cracksman
Title: The Cracksman
Character: Feathers
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
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The Amorous Prawn
Title: The Amorous Prawn
Character: Lochaye
Released: November 26, 1962
Type: Movie
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Don Pasquale
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Inspector
Title: The Inspector
Character: De Kool
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Go to Blazes
Title: Go to Blazes
Character: Judge
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
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Joseph and His Brethren
Title: Joseph and His Brethren
Character: Jacob
Released: August 23, 1961
Type: Movie
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
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Clue of the Silver Key
Title: Clue of the Silver Key
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
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Francis of Assisi
Title: Francis of Assisi
Character: The Pope
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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Hand in Hand
Title: Hand in Hand
Character: Mr. Pritchard
Released: February 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
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Five Golden Hours
Title: Five Golden Hours
Character: Father Superior
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Captain Sellers
Released: July 21, 1960
Type: Movie
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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The Angel Wore Red
Title: The Angel Wore Red
Character: Bishop
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Cluny MacPherson
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
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Solomon and Sheba
Title: Solomon and Sheba
Character: David
Released: December 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Balthasar
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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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Count Grinov
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
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Corridors of Blood
Title: Corridors of Blood
Character: Supt. Charles Matheson
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.
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Rockets Galore
Title: Rockets Galore
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1958
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
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6.5 Special
Title: 6.5 Special
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.
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The Naked Earth
Title: The Naked Earth
Character: Father Verity
Released: February 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
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Dangerous Exile
Title: Dangerous Exile
Character: Mr. Patient
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: Old Man
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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Saint Joan
Title: Saint Joan
Character: Archbishop of Rheims
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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The Little Hut
Title: The Little Hut
Character: The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Released: May 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
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Abandon Ship
Title: Abandon Ship
Character: Mr. Wheaton
Released: March 12, 1957
Type: Movie
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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Zarak
Title: Zarak
Character: The Mullah
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Whist Partner
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Footsteps in the Fog
Title: Footsteps in the Fog
Character: Inspector Peters
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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King's Rhapsody
Title: King's Rhapsody
Character: King Paul
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
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Captain Lightfoot
Title: Captain Lightfoot
Character: Callahan
Released: March 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
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Make Me an Offer!
Title: Make Me an Offer!
Character: Abe Sparta
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
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Third Party Risk
Title: Third Party Risk
Character: Mr. Darius
Released: October 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Character: Old 'Mick-Mack'
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Hamish MacPherson
Released: October 26, 1953
Type: Movie
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
Title: Treasure of the Golden Condor
Character: MacDougal
Released: February 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: MacMorriss
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Stars and Stripes Forever
Title: Stars and Stripes Forever
Character: Col. Randolph
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Marine bandmaster John Philip Sousa (Clifton Webb) becomes famous for his marches and inspires the sousaphone.
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Cedric
Released: July 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Walk East on Beacon!
Title: Walk East on Beacon!
Character: Professor Albert Kafer
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
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Kangaroo
Title: Kangaroo
Character: Michael McGuire
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Peter
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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People Will Talk
Title: People Will Talk
Character: Shunderson
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
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Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Mr. McLeod
Released: October 10, 1950
Type: Movie
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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The Mudlark
Title: The Mudlark
Character: John Brown
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Alfgar
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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My Daughter Joy
Title: My Daughter Joy
Character: Sir Thomas McTavish
Released: August 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Capt. Billy Bones
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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The History of Mr. Polly
Title: The History of Mr. Polly
Character: Uncle Jim
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: The Marquis of Tullibardine
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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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Title: Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character: Alastair McBain
Released: October 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Sir Joshua Varley
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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So Evil My Love
Title: So Evil My Love
Character: Dr. Krylie
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Sergeant-Major Morris
Released: February 18, 1948
Type: Movie
The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Dr. Hammond
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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The Brothers
Title: The Brothers
Character: Hector Macrae
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Abel Magwitch
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Spring Song
Title: Spring Song
Character: Cobb
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
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School for Secrets
Title: School for Secrets
Character: Sir Duncan Wills
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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The Trojan Brothers
Title: The Trojan Brothers
Character: W.H. Maxwell
Released: February 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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In the Zone
Title: In the Zone
Released: January 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Title: I Know Where I'm Going!
Character: Ruairidh Mhór
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Bugs Mulligan
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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The Shipbuilders
Title: The Shipbuilders
Character: McWain
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Merchant Captain
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
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Theatre Royal
Title: Theatre Royal
Character: Clement J. Earle
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
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Warn That Man
Title: Warn That Man
Character: Captain Andrew Fletcher
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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The Bells Go Down
Title: The Bells Go Down
Character: District Officer McFarlane
Released: May 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Capt. Joshua Stuart
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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The Day Will Dawn
Title: The Day Will Dawn
Character: Capt. Alstad
Released: June 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
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49th Parallel
Title: 49th Parallel
Character: The Factor
Released: November 24, 1941
Type: Movie
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Title: The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Character: Rubin
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Creditor
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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The Edge of the World
Title: The Edge of the World
Character: James Gray
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
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Wanted!
Title: Wanted!
Character: Uncle Mart
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
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Catch as Catch Can
Title: Catch as Catch Can
Character: Al Parson
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings. After Leyland falls for reluctant smuggler Barbara Standish, he convinces her to return with him to France with her cache of diamonds. But she is unaware of a network of thieves onboard their ship, competing against each other to make off with her jewels.
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Glamorous Night
Title: Glamorous Night
Character: Angus MacKintosh
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Al, Arthur's Manager
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
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The Improper Duchess
Title: The Improper Duchess
Character: Milton Lee
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Captain
Released: May 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
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The Big Splash
Title: The Big Splash
Character: Hartley Bassett
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
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Little Friend
Title: Little Friend
Character: Grove
Released: November 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
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My Old Dutch
Title: My Old Dutch
Character: Mo
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
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Gay Love
Title: Gay Love
Character: Highams
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Princess Charming
Title: Princess Charming
Character: Baron Seegman
Released: April 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
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Mister Cinders
Title: Mister Cinders
Character: Henry Kemp
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
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Orders Is Orders
Title: Orders Is Orders
Character: Dave
Released: July 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
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No Funny Business
Title: No Funny Business
Character: Mr Potterton
Released: March 30, 1933
Type: Movie
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: inspector Toucan
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Monte Mortimer
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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Rome Express
Title: Rome Express
Character: Sam, Publicist
Released: October 31, 1932
Type: Movie
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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The Frightened Lady
Title: The Frightened Lady
Character: Brooks
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
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The Old Man
Title: The Old Man
Character: Rennett
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)