Campbell Cotts

Campbell Cotts

Born: April 21, 1902
Died: February 19, 1964
in Fondebosch, South Africa

Movies for Campbell Cotts...

Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: The Grand Duke
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: Ambrose Porterhouse
Released: December 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Reform Club Member (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Barbados Quest
Title: Barbados Quest
Character: Robert Coburn
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.
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The Hour of 13
Title: The Hour of 13
Character: Mr. Chumley Orr
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
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Encore
Title: Encore
Character: Club Member
Released: June 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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My Seal and Them
Title: My Seal and Them
Character: Sir Archibald
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his everyday life becomes complicated, to say nothing of his sentimental life. Gabrielle, his all too serious girlfriend, can't stand the heat and calls it quits. But English girls like charming Diana don't mind seals...!
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A Dinner Date with Death
Title: A Dinner Date with Death
Character: The Man Who Arranges Dinner
Released: October 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Considered to be the earliest surviving example of a British play-to-screen drama, this served as a pilot for an anthology series called ‘The Man Who Walks by Night’ where a Silver Shroud type figure tells a different tale of mystery and suspense each week. It was approved of generally, but a freeze on funding brought it to a premature end. In this entry, a wealthy man who’s made many enemies, including his soon to be ex-wife, his ex-partner in crime and the son of a business partner he drove to suicide. He invites them to dinner to tempt fate, the sheer thrill enthralling him. But will he survive?
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Bellinghurst
Released: May 15, 1950
Type: Movie
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Saintsbury
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: Sir Paul Spinner
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: John Fairfax
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Released: October 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.