Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

Born: July 31, 1916
Died: November 8, 1979
in Hackney, London, England, UK
Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 - 8 November 1979) was an English actor.

Movies for Sydney Tafler...

Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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Title: The Cannon & Ball Show
Character: The Agent
Released: July 28, 1979
Type: TV
A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.
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Oy Vay Maria
Title: Oy Vay Maria
Character: Harry Perlman
Released: November 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Title: The Spy Who Loved Me
Character: Liparus Captain
Released: July 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Title: Victorian Scandals
Released: September 3, 1976
Type: TV
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Nightmare for a Nightingale
Title: Nightmare for a Nightingale
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
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Title: Survivors
Character: Manny
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: TV
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Manny Bellow
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Title: Vienna 1900
Released: December 8, 1973
Type: TV
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Baby Blues
Title: Baby Blues
Character: Mr. Crowley
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Sam Meadows
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Released: February 15, 1973
Type: TV
Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Wyvern
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Hoofd-commissaris Halsbeek
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Title: Alexander the Greatest
Released: July 15, 1971
Type: TV
Alexander the Greatest was a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren, it was written by Bernard Kops and made for the ITV network by ATV.
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Danger Point
Title: Danger Point
Released: January 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in the shape of a sea-mine.
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Title: Waugh on Crime
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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The Adventurers
Title: The Adventurers
Character: Col. Gutierrez (as Sidney Tafler)
Released: March 25, 1970
Type: Movie
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Title: The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
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The Birthday Party
Title: The Birthday Party
Character: Nat Goldberg
Released: December 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
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Berserk!
Title: Berserk!
Character: Harrison Liston
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: First Fish Porter
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Way Off Beat
Title: Way Off Beat
Character: Arthur Bradshaw
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
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Alfie
Title: Alfie
Character: Frank
Released: March 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
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Promise Her Anything
Title: Promise Her Anything
Character: Panel Participant
Released: February 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
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Title: A Slight Case Of...
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: TV
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Gabriel Lyon
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Runaway Railway
Title: Runaway Railway
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
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The 7th Dawn
Title: The 7th Dawn
Character: Tom, Chief Petty Officer
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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A Weekend with Lulu
Title: A Weekend with Lulu
Character: Stationmaster
Released: April 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
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Carry On Regardless
Title: Carry On Regardless
Character: Strip Club Manager
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
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Five Golden Hours
Title: Five Golden Hours
Character: Alfredo
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
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Title: Citizen James
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: TV
Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser appearing in early episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the "Sidney Balmoral James" and "Bill Kerr, the dim-witted Australian" roles that they had played in Hancock's Half Hour. The first series was set around 'Charlie's Nosh Bar', a cafe in Soho, and centred around Sid's get-rich-quick schemes. He is helped by "Billy the Kerr" and quite often frustrated by the local bookmaker Albert Welshman. Liz Fraser played Sid's long-suffering girlfriend who has been waiting for seven years for Sid to set the date. Changes were made to the format after the first series. Sid James' character was changed to be something of a people's champion, campaigning for social justice. Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser departed and Sidney Tafler played a different character: Charlie Davenport. The location switched from Soho to Sid and Charlie sharing a house. Later episodes were written by then Morecambe & Wise writers Sid Green and Dick Hills.
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No Kidding
Title: No Kidding
Character: Mr. Rockbottom
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
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Make Mine Mink
Title: Make Mine Mink
Character: Lionel Spanager
Released: August 9, 1960
Type: Movie
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
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Light Up the Sky!
Title: Light Up the Sky!
Character: Ted Green
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
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Bottoms Up!
Title: Bottoms Up!
Character: Sid Biggs
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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The Crowning Touch
Title: The Crowning Touch
Character: Joe
Released: June 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Several stories linked by a hat.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Solicitor
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
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The Bank Raiders
Title: The Bank Raiders
Character: Bernie Shelton
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Sidney Foskett
Released: September 19, 1958
Type: TV
'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 1964.
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Carve Her Name with Pride
Title: Carve Her Name with Pride
Character: Potter
Released: February 18, 1958
Type: Movie
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
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The Surgeon's Knife
Title: The Surgeon's Knife
Character: Dr. Hearne
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
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Booby Trap
Title: Booby Trap
Character: Mr Hunter
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Character: Curtis
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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The Counterfeit Plan
Title: The Counterfeit Plan
Character: Harry Flint
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Character: Robert Desoutter
Released: July 5, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Title: Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Character: Dr. Higgins
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Stone
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Character: Camino
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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Dial 999
Title: Dial 999
Character: Alf Cressett
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Policeman
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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The Woman for Joe
Title: The Woman for Joe
Character: Butch
Released: August 25, 1955
Type: Movie
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Title: A Kid for Two Farthings
Character: Madam Rita
Released: August 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
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The Glass Cage
Title: The Glass Cage
Character: Rorke
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
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The Crowded Day
Title: The Crowded Day
Character: Alex Fraser
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Cpl. Robb
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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Operation Diplomat
Title: Operation Diplomat
Character: Wade
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
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The Saint's Return
Title: The Saint's Return
Character: Max Lennar
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
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The Square Ring
Title: The Square Ring
Character: 1st Wiseacre
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
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Johnny on the Run
Title: Johnny on the Run
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
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There Was a Young Lady
Title: There Was a Young Lady
Character: Johnny
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
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Venetian Bird
Title: Venetian Bird
Character: Boldesca
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Title: Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Character: Joseph Spink
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Brett
Released: May 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
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Wide Boy
Title: Wide Boy
Character: Benny
Released: April 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
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Secret People
Title: Secret People
Character: Syd Burnett
Released: February 5, 1952
Type: Movie
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Ricky Martin
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
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The Floating Dutchman
Title: The Floating Dutchman
Character: Victor Skinner
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
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Mystery Junction
Title: Mystery Junction
Character: Larry Gordon
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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Hotel Sahara
Title: Hotel Sahara
Character: Pullar
Released: July 9, 1951
Type: Movie
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Clayton
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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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Mr. Leon
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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Scarlet Thread
Title: Scarlet Thread
Character: Marcon
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
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Assassin for Hire
Title: Assassin for Hire
Character: Antonio Riccardi
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
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Once a Sinner
Title: Once a Sinner
Character: Jimmy Smart
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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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Manager
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
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Passport to Pimlico
Title: Passport to Pimlico
Character: Fred Cowan
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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No Room at the Inn
Title: No Room at the Inn
Character: Stranger
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Night Club Receptionist
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
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Uneasy Terms
Title: Uneasy Terms
Character: Maysin
Released: July 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Freeman, the Dealer
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Title: It Always Rains on Sunday
Character: Morry Hyams
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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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: RAF Officer (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.