Ewen Solon

Ewen Solon

Born: September 7, 1917
Died: July 7, 1985
in Auckland, New Zealand

Movies for Ewen Solon...

Nutcracker
Title: Nutcracker
Character: Monsieur Demaurault
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins).
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Character: (Archive Material)
Released: September 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
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Lion of the Desert
Title: Lion of the Desert
Character: Italian Tank Commander
Released: April 17, 1981
Type: Movie
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Title: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Character: Commander Ford
Released: March 16, 1980
Type: Movie
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
Title: Unidentified Flying Oddball
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
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Title: The Doombolt Chase
Released: March 12, 1978
Type: TV
The Doombolt Chase is a naval-themed British science fiction/action television series aimed at a teenage audience. It was broadcast between March 12 and April 16, 1978, as a six-episode series. It was also broadcast in Canada on TVOntario in 1978 and in Germany in 1979 under the title Geheimprojekt Doombolt.
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Machinegunner
Title: Machinegunner
Character: Geoffrey Livingston
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
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Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Title: Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Character: Vishinsky
Released: October 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Picking up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find themselves on Zeta Minor where a geological team has run afoul of some strange goings on...
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Journey to the Unknown
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: TV
A British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, very similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary. It featured both British and American actors.
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Title: The Revenue Men
Character: Caesar Smith
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
The Revenue Men is a British television series, produced and transmitted by the BBC between 1967 and 1968. The series dealt with cases handled by the Investigation Branch of Customs and Excise such as the illegal import of goods, illegal immigration and business transactions amongst travellers. The Revenue Men was produced by Gerard Glaister. The series lasted for three series and 39 episodes in total. In spite of this fact, all of the episodes were later wiped, with no episodes extant in the BBC archives as of 2009.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Blind Man
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Doctor Who: The Savages
Title: Doctor Who: The Savages
Character: Chal
Released: June 18, 1966
Type: Movie
The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world. Yet the Doctor, Steven and Dodo learn it hides a terrible secret: the apparently civilised Elders maintain their advanced society by draining and transferring to themselves the life-force of the defenceless Savages.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Vishinsky
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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The Curse of the Werewolf
Title: The Curse of the Werewolf
Character: Don Fernando
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
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The Terror of the Tongs
Title: The Terror of the Tongs
Character: Tang How
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
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The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: Halstead
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Lucas
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Tarzan the Magnificent
Title: Tarzan the Magnificent
Character: Dexter
Released: July 20, 1960
Type: Movie
After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.
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The Stranglers of Bombay
Title: The Stranglers of Bombay
Released: December 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Jack the Ripper
Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Sir David Rogers
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Stapleton
Released: May 4, 1959
Type: Movie
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Detective in Pub
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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The Silent Enemy
Title: The Silent Enemy
Character: Willowdale Captain
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
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Black Ice
Title: Black Ice
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
British B-movie adventure.
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Account Rendered
Title: Account Rendered
Character: Detective Inspector Marshall
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Title: Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Character: ERA Williams
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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Robbery Under Arms
Title: Robbery Under Arms
Character: Sergeant Arthur
Released: January 10, 1957
Type: Movie
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Spanish Admiral
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Maj. Percy
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Behind the Headlines
Title: Behind the Headlines
Character: Superintendent Faro
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
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1984
Title: 1984
Character: Outer Party Orator
Released: March 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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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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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Bus Inspector (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1956
Type: Movie
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
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The Secret of the Forest
Title: The Secret of the Forest
Character: Mr. Roberts
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried their loot on the site. Specially made for children.
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Jumping for Joy
Title: Jumping for Joy
Character: Haines
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: Captain Lewis
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Flight Sergeant G. E. Powell
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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The Dark Avenger
Title: The Dark Avenger
Character: D'Estell
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Maj. Gen. Wightman
Released: February 27, 1954
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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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Character: Policeman
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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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: Guardsman
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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Crow Hollow
Title: Crow Hollow
Character: Sgt. Jenkins
Released: August 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Title: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Character: Merrie Man
Released: May 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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Hunted
Title: Hunted
Character: Radio Operator
Released: March 17, 1952
Type: Movie
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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Valley of the Eagles
Title: Valley of the Eagles
Character: Det. Anderson
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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Mystery Junction
Title: Mystery Junction
Character: Detective Sgt. Peterson
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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Assassin for Hire
Title: Assassin for Hire
Character: Fred
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
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The Rossiter Case
Title: The Rossiter Case
Character: Inspector
Released: January 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
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Highly Dangerous
Title: Highly Dangerous
Character: Enemy Scientist (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.