Gordon McLeod

Gordon McLeod

Born: December 27, 1890
in Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England

Movies for Gordon McLeod...

The House Across the Lake
Title: The House Across the Lake
Character: Doctor Emery
Released: April 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.
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Tale of Three Women
Title: Tale of Three Women
Character: Counsel (segment "Final Twist' story)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
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Strange Stories
Title: Strange Stories
Character: Landlord ('Strange Mr Bartleby') (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
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Four Days
Title: Four Days
Character: Mr. Keylin
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!
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A Case For P.C. 49
Title: A Case For P.C. 49
Character: Inspector Wilson
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
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Once a Sinner
Title: Once a Sinner
Character: Mr. Ross
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Garrett
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Title: The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Character: Record News editor
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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Corridor of Mirrors
Title: Corridor of Mirrors
Character: Public Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Mr. Cameron
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Night Boat to Dublin
Title: Night Boat to Dublin
Character: Inspector Longhurst
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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I Didn't Do It
Title: I Didn't Do It
Character: Supt. Belstock
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! Whilst staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, with the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Daring Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Inspector Venner
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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He Snoops to Conquer
Title: He Snoops to Conquer
Character: Angus McGluee
Released: December 12, 1944
Type: Movie
George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then cooking the results of a government sponsored housing survey.
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Tawny Pipit
Title: Tawny Pipit
Character: Phillipson (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
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We’ll Smile Again
Title: We’ll Smile Again
Character: McNaughton
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
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The Balloon Goes Up
Title: The Balloon Goes Up
Character: The Doctor
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
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The First of the Few
Title: The First of the Few
Character: Major Buchan
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
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The Saint Meets the Tiger
Title: The Saint Meets the Tiger
Character: Inspector Claud Teal
Released: December 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
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The Patient Vanishes
Title: The Patient Vanishes
Character: Insepctor Cardby
Released: July 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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The Saint's Vacation
Title: The Saint's Vacation
Character: Inspector Claud Teal
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
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That’s The Ticket
Title: That’s The Ticket
Character: Ferdinand
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Rossenger
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Chief Inspector (Uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Hoots Mon
Title: Hoots Mon
Character: McDonald
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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Lucky to Me
Title: Lucky to Me
Character: Doherty
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.
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The Saint in London
Title: The Saint in London
Character: Inspector Claud Teal
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: The Baron
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: John Brown
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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I See Ice
Title: I See Ice
Character: Lord Felstead
Released: February 10, 1938
Type: Movie
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Mr. Field
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Caillard
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: John Brown
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Talk of the Devil
Title: Talk of the Devil
Released: December 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: Brabazon
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
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Foreign Affaires
Title: Foreign Affaires
Character: Jarvis (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Commissioner
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Death at Broadcasting House
Title: Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Chief Commissioner
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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There Goes the Bride
Title: There Goes the Bride
Character: M. Duchaine (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
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The Devil to Pay!
Title: The Devil to Pay!
Character: Club Member (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
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The Virtuous Sin
Title: The Virtuous Sin
Character: Nikitin
Released: October 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.