Walter Byron

Walter Byron

Born: June 11, 1899
Died: March 3, 1972
in Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
Walter Byron (born Walter Clarence Butler; 11 June 1899 – 2 March 1972) was an English film actor.[1

Movies for Walter Byron...

Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Ringside Telegrapher (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Searcher (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: McClusky
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Death Goes North
Title: Death Goes North
Character: Al Norton
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Bob (Uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Frontier Scout
Title: Frontier Scout
Character: Lieutenant Adams
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Title: Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Character: Dennis Andrews
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: Carlton Whitney
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Nightclub Patron
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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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Arny Norman
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Roy - Pianist at Wedding Rehearsal (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Dwight Boardman
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Folies Bergère
Title: Folies Bergère
Character: Marquis René de Lac
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
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British Agent
Title: British Agent
Character: Under Secretary Stanley
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
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All Men Are Enemies
Title: All Men Are Enemies
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
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Once to Every Woman
Title: Once to Every Woman
Character: Dr. Freddie Preston
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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Man of Two Worlds
Title: Man of Two Worlds
Character: Eric Pager
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
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Big Time Or Bust
Title: Big Time Or Bust
Character: John Hammond
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Title: Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Character: Henry Jennison
Released: September 14, 1933
Type: Movie
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
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Kiss of Araby
Title: Kiss of Araby
Character: Lt. W. B. Lawrence
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.
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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Title: Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Character: Harold Heartright
Released: April 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Barney Starr
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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The Savage Girl
Title: The Savage Girl
Character: Jim Franklin
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.
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Queen Kelly
Title: Queen Kelly
Character: Prince Wolfram
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: James R. "Jimmie" Martin
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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The Crusader
Title: The Crusader
Character: Joe Carson
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
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This Sporting Age
Title: This Sporting Age
Character: Charles Morrell
Released: September 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
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Exposure
Title: Exposure
Character: Andy Bryant
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
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Week Ends Only
Title: Week Ends Only
Character: Jimmy Brigg
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
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Society Girl
Title: Society Girl
Character: Warburton
Released: May 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
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Sinners in the Sun
Title: Sinners in the Sun
Character: Eric Nelson
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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Shop Angel
Title: Shop Angel
Character: Don Irwin
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: George Osborne
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Three Wise Girls
Title: Three Wise Girls
Character: Jerry Dexter
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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The Menace
Title: The Menace
Character: Ronald Quayle
Released: January 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Count Nikolai
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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Left Over Ladies
Title: Left Over Ladies
Character: Ronny
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
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The Last Flight
Title: The Last Flight
Character: Frink
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
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The Reckless Hour
Title: The Reckless Hour
Character: Allen Crane
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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Not Damaged
Title: Not Damaged
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
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The Sacred Flame
Title: The Sacred Flame
Character: Colin Taylor
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Count Karl von Hagen
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
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Tommy Atkins
Title: Tommy Atkins
Character: Harold
Released: May 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
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Yvette
Title: Yvette
Character: Jean de Servigny
Released: December 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: Julian Jefferson
Released: April 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.