Jerry Desmonde

Jerry Desmonde

Born: July 20, 1908
Died: February 11, 1967
in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, England
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Jerry Desmonde (20 July 1908 - 11 February 1967) was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom. Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond.

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The Early Bird
Title: The Early Bird
Character: Mr. Walter Hunter
Released: November 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
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The Beauty Jungle
Title: The Beauty Jungle
Character: Swimming Pool MC
Released: August 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
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A Stitch in Time
Title: A Stitch in Time
Character: Sir Hector
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
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Stolen Hours
Title: Stolen Hours
Character: Colonel
Released: October 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
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The Switch
Title: The Switch
Character: Customs Chief
Released: May 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
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A Kind of Loving
Title: A Kind of Loving
Character: TV Compère (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
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Follow a Star
Title: Follow a Star
Character: Vernon Carew
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
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A King in New York
Title: A King in New York
Character: Prime Minister Voudel
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
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Up in the World
Title: Up in the World
Character: Maj. Willoughby
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
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Ramsbottom Rides Again
Title: Ramsbottom Rides Again
Character: Blue Eagle
Released: April 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law.
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Man of the Moment
Title: Man of the Moment
Character: Jackson
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
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The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Title: The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Character: Parker
Released: September 9, 1954
Type: Movie
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
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Trouble in Store
Title: Trouble in Store
Character: August Freeman
Released: December 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: General
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Alf's Baby
Title: Alf's Baby
Character: Alf Donklin
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
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The Perfect Woman
Title: The Perfect Woman
Character: Dress Shop Owner
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
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Cardboard Cavalier
Title: Cardboard Cavalier
Character: Col. Lovelace
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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London Town
Title: London Town
Character: George
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as merely an understudy and bit player. His faithful daughter pulls a few fast ones in order to get her dad back on stage in a starring role....