Jimmy Hanley

Jimmy Hanley

Born: October 22, 1918
Died: January 13, 1970
in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918 – 13 January 1970) was a British actor.

Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popular in juvenile roles. He was groomed by the Rank Studio system during his teenage years and earned film stardom as a "boy-next-door" type.

The young star-struck actor attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and whilst he was studying there, made his stage debut at the London Palladium, as John Darling in Peter Pan.

He later worked on TV, hosting the ITV series Jim's Inn, which combined advertising messages with the plot of a soap opera.

Hanley was married twice:

    * Dinah Sheridan (1942–1952, three children, including Jenny Hanley and the Conservative politician Sir Jeremy Hanley)

    * Margaret Avery (1955–1970, three daughters: Jane, Sarah and Katy)

Hanley died from cancer in Leatherhead, Surrey, aged 51.

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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Title: If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Released: August 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
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The Lost Continent
Title: The Lost Continent
Character: Patrick, the bartender
Released: June 19, 1968
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
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Way Off Beat
Title: Way Off Beat
Character: Antonio Laveline
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
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The Smiths in Scotland
Title: The Smiths in Scotland
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland.
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Satellite in the Sky
Title: Satellite in the Sky
Character: Larry Noble
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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The Deep Blue Sea
Title: The Deep Blue Sea
Character: Dicer Durston
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
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The Black Rider
Title: The Black Rider
Character: Jerry Marsh
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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Radio Cab Murder
Title: Radio Cab Murder
Character: Fred
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
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Views on Trial
Title: Views on Trial
Character: Nicholas 'Garble' Diabolus, Budgenot, Works Foreman / Machinist
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Bill Collins
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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Room to Let
Title: Room to Let
Character: Curly Minter
Released: May 15, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: PC Andy Mitchell
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Bill Foster
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Title: Don't Ever Leave Me
Character: Jack Denton
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
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The Huggetts Abroad
Title: The Huggetts Abroad
Character: Jimmy Gardner
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Jimmy Gardner
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Captain James Gladstone Wedge VC
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Title: It Always Rains on Sunday
Character: Whitey
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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The Master of Bankdam
Title: The Master of Bankdam
Character: Simeon Crowther Jr.
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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Holiday Camp
Title: Holiday Camp
Character: Jimmy Gardner
Released: August 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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The Captive Heart
Title: The Captive Heart
Character: Pte. Mathews
Released: April 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
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Murder in Reverse?
Title: Murder in Reverse?
Character: Peter Rogers
Released: October 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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For You Alone
Title: For You Alone
Character: Dennis Britton
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
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29 Acacia Avenue
Title: 29 Acacia Avenue
Character: Peter Robinson
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Character: Jack Fowler
Released: January 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Williams - Soldier in the English Army
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Pvt. Geoffrey Stainer
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: 1st Soldier
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives
Title: Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives
Character: Dick Erskine
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
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Salute John Citizen
Title: Salute John Citizen
Released: September 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Cobb
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
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There Ain't No Justice
Title: There Ain't No Justice
Character: Tommy Mutch
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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Housemaster
Title: Housemaster
Character: Travers
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
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Night Ride
Title: Night Ride
Character: Dick Benson
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
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Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: Jack Owen
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Landslide
Title: Landslide
Character: Jimmy Haddon
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
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The Tunnel
Title: The Tunnel
Character: Geoffrey McAllan
Released: October 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Cyril Brown
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
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Brown on Resolution
Title: Brown on Resolution
Character: Ginger
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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Royal Cavalcade
Title: Royal Cavalcade
Character: Newsboy
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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Little Friend
Title: Little Friend
Character: Leonard Parry
Released: November 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
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Wild Boy
Title: Wild Boy
Character: Boy With Message
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Young Joe Prince
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.