Cecil Weston

Cecil Weston

Born: September 3, 1889
Died: August 7, 1976
in Capetown, South Africa

Movies for Cecil Weston...

The Notorious Landlady
Title: The Notorious Landlady
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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Noose for a Gunman
Title: Noose for a Gunman
Character: Mrs. Franklyn
Released: May 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
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A Man Alone
Title: A Man Alone
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
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Pride of the Blue Grass
Title: Pride of the Blue Grass
Character: Mrs. Graves
Released: April 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Belles on Their Toes
Title: Belles on Their Toes
Character: Emily (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Prison Matron (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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Money Madness
Title: Money Madness
Character: Cora Hudson
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: First Woman Buying Cookies (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1947
Type: Movie
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Teacher (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Undetermined (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Mrs. Chadwick (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Ellen Jackson (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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One Mysterious Night
Title: One Mysterious Night
Character: Mother (Uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Mystery Broadcast
Title: Mystery Broadcast
Character: Carrie (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Mrs. Lorraine
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Woman
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Stage Passenger
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Wells Fargo hires three cowboys to clean up a lawless town.
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Mother
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Mrs. Marvin
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Nurse
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Second Aunt (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Broadway Big Shot
Title: Broadway Big Shot
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Teacher
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Police Matron (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Townswoman
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Minor Role
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Party Guest
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Townswoman
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Landlady
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Dresser
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Angry Woman at Strike (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Matron
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Proprietor's Wife
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Townswoman
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Beatrice's Maid (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Banjo on My Knee
Title: Banjo on My Knee
Character: Hattie
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Mother of Dying Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Woman
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Small Town Woman
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Dude Ranch
Title: Dude Ranch
Character: Mrs. Merridew
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign.