Norman MacOwan

Norman MacOwan

Born: January 2, 1877
Died: December 31, 1961
in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer. He started his career in the theater in 1903, and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included: The Blue Lagoon (1921), The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), and Glorious Morning (1938). MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), Kidnapped (1960), and The City of the Dead (1960). He was married to Violet [Ellen] Stephenson (actress). He died on December 31, 1961 in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Movies for Norman MacOwan...

The City of the Dead
Title: The City of the Dead
Character: Rev. Russell
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
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The Battle of the Sexes
Title: The Battle of the Sexes
Character: Jock Munro
Released: February 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Tinker
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Andreas
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Tread Softly Stranger
Title: Tread Softly Stranger
Character: Danny
Released: August 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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Heart of a Child
Title: Heart of a Child
Character: Heiss
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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Action of the Tiger
Title: Action of the Tiger
Released: August 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
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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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X the Unknown
Title: X the Unknown
Character: Old Tom
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
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Footsteps in the Fog
Title: Footsteps in the Fog
Character: Grimes (as Norman Macowan)
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Cagey
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
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Laxdale Hall
Title: Laxdale Hall
Character: Old Villager
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
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Castle in the Air
Title: Castle in the Air
Character: Pettigrew
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle
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Valley of the Eagles
Title: Valley of the Eagles
Character: McTavis, ferry pilot
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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The Dark Light
Title: The Dark Light
Character: Rigby
Released: April 23, 1951
Type: Movie
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.
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Help Yourself
Title: Help Yourself
Character: Elderly Husband
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.
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Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: Captain MacPhee
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.