Fred Groves

Fred Groves

Movies for Fred Groves...

Your Witness
Title: Your Witness
Character: Dart Player #6
Released: March 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Landlord
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Lisha Hodgkiss
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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An Ideal Husband
Title: An Ideal Husband
Character: Phipps
Released: November 14, 1947
Type: Movie
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Character: Captain Fenton
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to rescue those remaining alive.
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Barnes
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Favre
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: uncredited
Released: May 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Martin
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Beloved Impostor
Title: Beloved Impostor
Character: Jack Harding
Released: July 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
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Royal Eagle
Title: Royal Eagle
Character: Sam Waldock
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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Dance Band
Title: Dance Band
Character: Pantomime Act
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Showman
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
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The Ghost Camera
Title: The Ghost Camera
Character: Barnaby Rudd
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
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Puppets of Fate
Title: Puppets of Fate
Character: Arthur Brandon
Released: January 10, 1933
Type: Movie
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Title: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Character: Dick Morgan
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Bannister Blair
Released: November 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
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Sally in Our Alley
Title: Sally in Our Alley
Character: Alf Cope
Released: July 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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Escape!
Title: Escape!
Released: August 28, 1930
Type: Movie
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Pvt. Lomax
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 Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: Inspector Parr
Released: September 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Michael Henchard
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.
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Florence Nightingale
Title: Florence Nightingale
Character: Doctor
Released: March 5, 1915
Type: Movie
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
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The Suicide Club
Title: The Suicide Club
Released: July 1, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Idol of Paris
Title: The Idol of Paris
Character: Philippe Castelle
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.
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Inquisitive Ike
Title: Inquisitive Ike
Character: Fred
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.
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Beautiful Jim
Title: Beautiful Jim
Character: Lt. Jim Beresford
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.
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The Cup Final Mystery
Title: The Cup Final Mystery
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?
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Her Luck in London
Title: Her Luck in London
Character: Richard Lenowen
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
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Black-Eyed Susan
Title: Black-Eyed Susan
Character: Wiliam Lorman
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.
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Bridegrooms Beware!
Title: Bridegrooms Beware!
Character: Bridegroom
Released: November 3, 1913
Type: Movie
A comedy feature with Fred Groves having dual roles of bridegroom and a lunatic, and in the course of the film the two characters swap places.
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Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
Title: Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
Character: William Corder
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.
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Popsy Wopsy
Title: Popsy Wopsy
Character: Composer
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A composer gets drunk on the proceeds of a song and sees his furniture dancing.