Percy Parsons

Percy Parsons

Born: June 12, 1878
Died: October 3, 1944

Movies for Percy Parsons...

They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Hi Gang!
Title: Hi Gang!
Character: Hergensheimer
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
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49th Parallel
Title: 49th Parallel
Character: Hi-Jacked Canadian Motorist
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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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Bill Peters
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: American Broadcaster (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Title: The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Mr. Stillman
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: President Lincoln
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Song of the Road
Title: Song of the Road
Character: 'Doctor' Rollo Dando
Released: August 8, 1937
Type: Movie
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
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Said O'Reilly to McNab
Title: Said O'Reilly to McNab
Character: Mr. Dunkel
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O'Reilly. Then one day O'Reilly's father shows up for a "visit"--which, as it turns out, is because he's on the run from the police in New York.
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Everybody Dance
Title: Everybody Dance
Character: Josiah Spurgeon
Released: September 6, 1936
Type: Movie
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
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Rhodes of Africa
Title: Rhodes of Africa
Character: Hendricks
Released: June 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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Twelve Good Men
Title: Twelve Good Men
Character: Hopwood
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
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King of the Damned
Title: King of the Damned
Character: Lumberjack
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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The Big Splash
Title: The Big Splash
Character: Crook
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
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The Camels Are Coming
Title: The Camels Are Coming
Character: Arab
Released: October 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
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Red Ensign
Title: Red Ensign
Character: Casey
Released: June 17, 1934
Type: Movie
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Cowboy Joe
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: American #2
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Lefty Finn
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Morton Mitcham
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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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Hogbin
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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Sleepless Nights
Title: Sleepless Nights
Character: Mr. Drew
Released: November 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A journalist is sent to the South of France to interview a reclusive millionaire..He offers his hotel bedroom to the millionaires daughter to use to avoid her boyfriend,who is actually a crook, His boss arrives unexpectedly and as there is no other room available expects to share the hotel room with him, he explains the situation by saying he had just married the girl.Obviously lots of comedic situations arise because of this.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Merriman
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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Love on Wheels
Title: Love on Wheels
Character: American Crook
Released: July 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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The Frightened Lady
Title: The Frightened Lady
Character: Gilder
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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Strictly Business
Title: Strictly Business
Character: Theodore C. Smith
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
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Creeping Shadows
Title: Creeping Shadows
Character: Limping Man
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
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Okay, Chief
Title: Okay, Chief
Character: Kelly
Released: January 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims self-defence, but refuses to name the woman he was with at the speakeasy where Cooly was shot, and who could provide the alibi that would exonerate him from a murder charge. Galvin's continued pursuit of the woman's identity eventually leads to an unwelcome surprise.
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Beyond the Cities
Title: Beyond the Cities
Character: Boss
Released: November 18, 1930
Type: Movie
"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)
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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Pvt. Brett
Released: July 4, 1930
Type: Movie
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
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The Nipper
Title: The Nipper
Character: Joubert
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.