Ian Colin

Ian Colin

Born: May 16, 1912
Died: February 20, 1987
in Livingstone, Zambia

Movies for Ian Colin...

Strongroom
Title: Strongroom
Character: Creighton
Released: May 4, 1962
Type: Movie
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
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Dangerous Afternoon
Title: Dangerous Afternoon
Character: Reverend Everard Porson
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Baron Pflungk, of the German Foreign Office
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Witness in the Dark
Title: Witness in the Dark
Character: Superintendent Thompson
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who will become his target.
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The Two-Headed Spy
Title: The Two-Headed Spy
Character: Col. Heitz
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
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Balance of Terror
Title: Balance of Terror
Released: November 21, 1957
Type: Movie
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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Adam Maxwell
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
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Many Mansions
Title: Many Mansions
Character: Colonel Smith-Brown
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The 30 minute play, specially written for television by Scottish writer, Duncan Ross, takes place in a pub in Yorkshire. Marius plays Lester Hockley, a man blind from birth. Lester has been secretary to a deceased artist, Paul Stanton, whose character and work are being discussed by the regulars in the pub that night.
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Soho Conspiracy
Title: Soho Conspiracy
Character: Archibald Maclean
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.
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A Dream of Love
Title: A Dream of Love
Character: Franz Liszt (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Aging composer Franz Liszt lives in an abbey. On his birthday, a priest brings him a box that was just delivered; there is no return address. In the box he finds a single flower. The flower brings back memories of his lost love of long ago, who inspired him to compose his unforgettable melodies.
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Darts Are Trumps
Title: Darts Are Trumps
Character: Harry
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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It's Never Too Late to Mend
Title: It's Never Too Late to Mend
Character: George Fielding
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
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Wings over Africa
Title: Wings over Africa
Character: Tony Cooper
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.
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Born That Way
Title: Born That Way
Character: Hugh
Released: July 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.
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Men of Yesterday
Title: Men of Yesterday
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
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Blue Smoke
Title: Blue Smoke
Character: Chris Steele
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.
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Late Extra
Title: Late Extra
Character: Ronnie Carson
Released: November 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.
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Cross Currents
Title: Cross Currents
Character: Tony Brocklehurst
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.