Arthur Hambling

Arthur Hambling

Born: March 14, 1888
Died: December 4, 1952
in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Movies for Arthur Hambling...

Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Col. Tremaine
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Wallis
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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Blackmailed
Title: Blackmailed
Character: Inspector Canin
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Ghost of Christmas Past / Gentleman of the Stock Exchange
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
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Cage of Gold
Title: Cage of Gold
Character: Jenkins
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Mr. Jupp
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Title: Don't Ever Leave Me
Character: Policeman
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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I Have Been Here Before
Title: I Have Been Here Before
Character: Sam Shipley
Released: May 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?
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It's Not Cricket
Title: It's Not Cricket
Character: Barman
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Newspaperman (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Coroner's Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Hodges
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Policeman at Park Gates
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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Daughter of Darkness
Title: Daughter of Darkness
Character: Jacob
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Title: It Always Rains on Sunday
Character: Yardmaster
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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Odd Man Out
Title: Odd Man Out
Character: Tom
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Johnny Frenchman
Title: Johnny Frenchman
Character: Steven Matthews
Released: October 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Bates - 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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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Railway Porter
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Demobbed
Title: Demobbed
Character: Curtis
Released: June 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
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Time Flies
Title: Time Flies
Character: Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Title: Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Character: PC Albert Green
Released: August 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Policeman
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Mr. Lamport
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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The Missing Million
Title: The Missing Million
Character: Wells
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Pettit
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: Scotland Yard Inspector (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Jordan
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Joe
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Shelter Delivery Man
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Ginger Brown
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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At the Villa Rose
Title: At the Villa Rose
Character: Mons. Perrichet
Released: March 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Constable Benham
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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The Gaunt Stranger
Title: The Gaunt Stranger
Character: Det. Sgt. Richards
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Character: Village Doctor
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: 3rd Signalman
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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I See Ice
Title: I See Ice
Character: Prison Warder (uncredited)
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 Last Chance
Title: The Last Chance
Character: Constable Brown
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall, a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence, but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...
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The Girl in the Taxi
Title: The Girl in the Taxi
Character: Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
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Secret Lives
Title: Secret Lives
Character: Swiss Official (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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A Romance in Flanders
Title: A Romance in Flanders
Character: Colonel Kennedy
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
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The House of the Spaniard
Title: The House of the Spaniard
Character: Albert Smith (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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Midshipman Easy
Title: Midshipman Easy
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Sam
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Soldier
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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Death at Broadcasting House
Title: Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Man on BBC Reception Desk (uncredited)
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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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: Sir Henry's Gardener
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
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A Night in Montmartre
Title: A Night in Montmartre
Character: Inspector Brichot
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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Other People's Sins
Title: Other People's Sins
Character: Fireman
Released: February 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.
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Thread o' Scarlet
Title: Thread o' Scarlet
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)