Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton

Born: January 19, 1893
Died: February 10, 1962
in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Matthew Boulton (20 January 1893 – 10 February 1962) was a British stage and film actor. He was a character actor, who often played police officers and military officers. Having established himself in the theatre, he began taking supporting roles in films including an appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage. He subsequently emigrated to Hollywood where he worked for the remainder of his career. His films in America include The Woman in Green (1945) and The Woman in White (1948).

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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Inspector Grey (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Simpson (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Barbary Pirate
Title: Barbary Pirate
Character: Tobias Sharpe
Released: November 10, 1949
Type: Movie
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: Mr. Bromley
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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Enchantment
Title: Enchantment
Character: Air Raid Warden
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Title: Tarzan and the Mermaids
Character: British Inspector-General
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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The Woman in White
Title: The Woman in White
Character: Dr. Nevin
Released: May 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: William Cosgrove
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Tom Lumford (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Stallion Road
Title: Stallion Road
Character: Joe Beasley
Released: April 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Solicitor (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Doctor Diagnosing Tex (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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The Woman in Green
Title: The Woman in Green
Character: Inspector Gregson
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Inspector Graham
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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National Velvet
Title: National Velvet
Character: Entry Official
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Title: The Man in Half Moon Street
Character: Detective Inspector Ned Garth
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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Nothing But Trouble
Title: Nothing But Trouble
Character: Prince Prentiloff
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Title: The White Cliffs of Dover
Character: Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Brighton
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Constable Jones (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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The Undying Monster
Title: The Undying Monster
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
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Counter-Espionage
Title: Counter-Espionage
Character: Inspector Stephens
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Colonel Ashmont
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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A Yank on the Burma Road
Title: A Yank on the Burma Road
Character: Rangoon Aide de camp
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Title: Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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They Met in Bombay
Title: They Met in Bombay
Character: Inspector Cressney
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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Rage in Heaven
Title: Rage in Heaven
Character: Ramsbotham
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Comrade X
Title: Comrade X
Character: British World Press Attendee
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Captain Howard
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: John Ramsell Sr.
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Adventure in Diamonds
Title: Adventure in Diamonds
Character: Lloyd
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Ickerton (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Character: Blake, Fingerprints Expert
Released: July 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Ship Captain
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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The Story of Dr. Jenner
Title: The Story of Dr. Jenner
Character: Dr. Edward Jenner (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Charity Solicitor Twill
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Title: Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character: Major Grey
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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Lord Jeff
Title: Lord Jeff
Character: Inspector Scott
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Character: Sir Raymond Blantyre
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Character: Sir John Haxton
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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The Firefly
Title: The Firefly
Character: Wellington
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Commissioner Grimshaw (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Night Must Fall
Title: Night Must Fall
Character: Inspector Belsize
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Superintendent Talbot
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Fake Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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Creeping Shadows
Title: Creeping Shadows
Character: Inspector Potter
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Inspector
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: Sergeant Lane
Released: October 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
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To What Red Hell
Title: To What Red Hell
Character: Inspector Jackson
Released: November 1, 1929
Type: Movie
'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)