Michael Trubshawe

Michael Trubshawe

Born: December 7, 1905
Died: March 21, 1985
in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK

Movies for Michael Trubshawe...

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Title: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Character: Mandeville
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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Salt & Pepper
Title: Salt & Pepper
Character: "Fake" First Lord
Released: July 3, 1968
Type: Movie
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?
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Bedazzled
Title: Bedazzled
Character: Lord Dowdy
Released: October 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
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The Spy with a Cold Nose
Title: The Spy with a Cold Nose
Character: Braithwaite
Released: December 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Guardsman
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Smoke Over London
Title: Smoke Over London
Character: Il Colonello
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Dante Fontana is an antique dealer from Perugia infatuated with the culture of the British upper classes. His wife and relatives mock him and snub him, seeing him as a silly daydreamer doing no serious work. Unfussed, Dante plans a vacation to London to learn more about the culture he so admires. However, once in London, he struggles to fit in, is awkward, often makes mistakes betraying his Italian origins, attracting the scorn of the British upper classes he would like to impress.
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Title: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Character: Niven
Released: June 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
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The Runaway
Title: The Runaway
Character: Sir Roger Clements
Released: November 1, 1964
Type: Movie
In this espionage film, set just before the Germans invaded France, a chemist in Paris moonlights as a Soviet spy. To escape the Nazi invaders, the chemist and his wife steal government money and try to escape to South America.
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A Hard Day's Night
Title: A Hard Day's Night
Character: Casino Manager (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
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The Pink Panther
Title: The Pink Panther
Character: Felix Townes
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
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The Mouse on the Moon
Title: The Mouse on the Moon
Character: British Aide
Released: May 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
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The Best of Enemies
Title: The Best of Enemies
Character: Col. Brownhow
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Guns of Navarone
Title: The Guns of Navarone
Character: Weaver
Released: April 27, 1961
Type: Movie
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Col. Withers
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Law and Disorder
Title: Law and Disorder
Character: Ivan
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Sergeant Golightly
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: English Publisher
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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The Rising of the Moon
Title: The Rising of the Moon
Character: Colonel Charles Frobisher (segment 'A Minute's Wait')
Released: August 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
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The Passionate Stranger
Title: The Passionate Stranger
Character: Second Landlord
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (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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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Col. Fanshawe
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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Orders Are Orders
Title: Orders Are Orders
Character: A.D.C.
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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The Rainbow Jacket
Title: The Rainbow Jacket
Character: Gresham
Released: May 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Title: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Character: Ruddock
Released: March 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Lord Chapsworth (segment "Ways and Means")
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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Something Money Can't Buy
Title: Something Money Can't Buy
Released: July 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals.
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Brandy for the Parson
Title: Brandy for the Parson
Character: Redworth
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Sitter in Bath Studio
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: British Ambassador
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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Encore
Title: Encore
Character: Ascot Man
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 Frederick
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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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Colonel
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
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They Were Not Divided
Title: They Were Not Divided
Character: Major Bushey Noble
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.