Skelton Knaggs

Skelton Knaggs

Born: June 27, 1911
Died: May 1, 1955
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Skelton Knaggs...

Moonfleet
Title: Moonfleet
Character: Jacob
Released: June 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
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Casanova's Big Night
Title: Casanova's Big Night
Character: Little Man
Released: April 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
Title: Blackbeard, the Pirate
Character: Gilly
Released: December 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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Master Minds
Title: Master Minds
Character: Hugo
Released: November 27, 1949
Type: Movie
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Pete
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: X-Ray
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Character: Rudolph
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
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A Scandal in Paris
Title: A Scandal in Paris
Character: Cousin Pierre
Released: July 19, 1946
Type: Movie
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
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Bedlam
Title: Bedlam
Character: Varney (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
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Just Before Dawn
Title: Just Before Dawn
Character: Louie (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: Sands - Moran's Accomplice
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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House of Dracula
Title: House of Dracula
Character: Steinmuhl
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
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Isle of the Dead
Title: Isle of the Dead
Character: Andrew Robbins (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
Title: The Invisible Man's Revenge
Character: Alf Perry, Cabman (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Man with Cart
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Ghost Ship
Title: The Ghost Ship
Character: Paolo 'Finn' Lindstrom, the Mute
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
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Headin' for God's Country
Title: Headin' for God's Country
Character: Jeff
Released: August 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
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Diamond Frontier
Title: Diamond Frontier
Character: Morgan
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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Torture Ship
Title: Torture Ship
Character: Jesse Bixel
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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The Spy in Black
Title: The Spy in Black
Character: German Sailor looking for Capt. Hardt
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Character: Reg. Aythorne
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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The High Command
Title: The High Command
Character: Fazerack
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Undetermined Secondary Rôle (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Everything Is Thunder
Title: Everything Is Thunder
Character: Young Man with Lantern
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.