Ernest Cossart

Ernest Cossart

Born: September 24, 1876
Died: January 21, 1951
in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Movies for Ernest Cossart...

John Loves Mary
Title: John Loves Mary
Character: Oscar Dugan
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
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Love from a Stranger
Title: Love from a Stranger
Character: Billings
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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The Jolson Story
Title: The Jolson Story
Character: Father McGee
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.
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It's Your America
Title: It's Your America
Character: English Pub Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as citizens were now that they were returning to civilian life.
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Cluny Brown
Title: Cluny Brown
Character: Syrette
Released: June 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Bishop
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
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The Girl of the Limberlost
Title: The Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Roger Henley
Released: October 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
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Tonight and Every Night
Title: Tonight and Every Night
Character: Sam Royce
Released: January 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
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Knickerbocker Holiday
Title: Knickerbocker Holiday
Character: Tienhoven
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
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Kings Row
Title: Kings Row
Character: Pa Monaghan
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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Skylark
Title: Skylark
Character: Theodore
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: John E. Morris
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Charley's Aunt
Title: Charley's Aunt
Character: Brassett
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Pop Foyle
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Tom Brown's School Days
Title: Tom Brown's School Days
Character: Squire Brown
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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A Bill of Divorcement
Title: A Bill of Divorcement
Character: Rev. Dr. Pumphrey
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Beeton
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Tom Clink
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Father Antoine
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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The Magnificent Fraud
Title: The Magnificent Fraud
Character: Duval
Released: July 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Binns
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Jeepers
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Marchand
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
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Letter of Introduction
Title: Letter of Introduction
Character: Andrews, the Butler
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Christopher 'Chris' Wilton
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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Carnival Queen
Title: Carnival Queen
Character: Spaulding
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
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The Lady Fights Back
Title: The Lady Fights Back
Character: Commissioner Allan
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
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As Good as Married
Title: As Good as Married
Character: Quinn
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Augustus Borden
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Waiter
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Binns
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Murder with Pictures
Title: Murder with Pictures
Character: Stanley Redfield
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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My American Wife
Title: My American Wife
Character: Adolphe
Released: August 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
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Palm Springs
Title: Palm Springs
Character: Starkey
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Aristide Duvalle
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
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The Great Ziegfeld
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Character: Sidney
Released: April 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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Two for Tonight
Title: Two for Tonight
Character: Homps
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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Accent on Youth
Title: Accent on Youth
Character: Flogdell
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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The Scoundrel
Title: The Scoundrel
Character: Jimmy Clay
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.