James Robertson Justice

James Robertson Justice

Born: June 15, 1907
Died: July 2, 1975
in Lewisham, London, England, UK
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James Robertson Justice (15 June 1907 – 2 July 1975) was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
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The Massacre of Glencoe
Title: The Massacre of Glencoe
Character: MacIain
Released: February 13, 1971
Type: Movie
The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.
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Doctor in Trouble
Title: Doctor in Trouble
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: June 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.
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Some Will, Some Won't
Title: Some Will, Some Won't
Character: Sir Charles Robson
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
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Zeta One
Title: Zeta One
Character: Maj. Bourdon
Released: December 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Title: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Character: Lord Scrumptious
Released: December 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
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Mayerling
Title: Mayerling
Character: Prince of Wales
Released: October 31, 1968
Type: Movie
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Fitzwilliam
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Spirits of the Dead
Title: Spirits of the Dead
Character: Countess' Advisor (segment "Metzengerstein")
Released: May 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
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Hell Is Empty
Title: Hell Is Empty
Character: Angus McGee
Released: December 20, 1967
Type: Movie
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.
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Two Weeks in September
Title: Two Weeks in September
Character: McClintock
Released: June 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
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The Trygon Factor
Title: The Trygon Factor
Character: Sir John (voice)
Released: December 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
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Lucy in London
Title: Lucy in London
Character: Head of Madame Tussauds' Guides
Released: October 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.
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Long Legs, Long Fingers
Title: Long Legs, Long Fingers
Character: Sir Hammond
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
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Doctor in Clover
Title: Doctor in Clover
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: March 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Title: The Face of Fu Manchu
Character: Sir Charles
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
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You Must Be Joking
Title: You Must Be Joking
Character: Librarian
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Title: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Character: Narrator
Released: June 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
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Up from the Beach
Title: Up from the Beach
Character: British Beachmaster
Released: May 25, 1965
Type: Movie
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.
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Father Came Too!
Title: Father Came Too!
Character: Sir Beverly Grant
Released: February 11, 1964
Type: Movie
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
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Dr. Crippen
Title: Dr. Crippen
Character: Captain McKenzie
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
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Doctor in Distress
Title: Doctor in Distress
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
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Das Feuerschiff
Title: Das Feuerschiff
Character: Kapitän Freytag
Released: March 5, 1963
Type: Movie
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Mystery Submarine
Title: Mystery Submarine
Character: RAdm. Rainbird
Released: March 3, 1963
Type: Movie
A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.
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The Fast Lady
Title: The Fast Lady
Character: Charles
Released: December 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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Love on a Pillow
Title: Love on a Pillow
Character: Katov - un sculpteur
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
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Guns of Darkness
Title: Guns of Darkness
Character: Hugo Bryant
Released: July 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
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Crooks Anonymous
Title: Crooks Anonymous
Character: Sir Harvey Russelrod
Released: March 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
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A Pair of Briefs
Title: A Pair of Briefs
Character: Justice Haddon
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
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Murder She Said
Title: Murder She Said
Character: Luther Ackenthorpe
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Sir Benjamin Boyd
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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The Guns of Navarone
Title: The Guns of Navarone
Character: Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
Released: April 27, 1961
Type: Movie
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Very Important Person
Title: Very Important Person
Character: Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN
Released: April 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
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The Ambassadress
Title: The Ambassadress
Character: Robert Morrison
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
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A French Mistress
Title: A French Mistress
Character: Robert Martin / 'Bow Wow'
Released: August 25, 1960
Type: Movie
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
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Foxhole in Cairo
Title: Foxhole in Cairo
Character: Capt. Robertson
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Title: Upstairs and Downstairs
Character: Mansfield
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
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Orders to Kill
Title: Orders to Kill
Character: Naval Commander
Released: July 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
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Thérèse Étienne
Title: Thérèse Étienne
Released: February 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Dr. Martout
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: James MacDonald
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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The Living Idol
Title: The Living Idol
Character: Doctor Alfred Stoner
Released: May 2, 1957
Type: Movie
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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Checkpoint
Title: Checkpoint
Character: Warren Ingram
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
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The Iron Petticoat
Title: The Iron Petticoat
Character: Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Capt. Boomer
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Storm Over the Nile
Title: Storm Over the Nile
Character: General Burroughs
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Title: An Alligator Named Daisy
Character: Sir James Colebrook
Released: December 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
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Land of the Pharaohs
Title: Land of the Pharaohs
Character: Vashtar
Released: July 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Capt. Hogg
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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Above Us the Waves
Title: Above Us the Waves
Character: Admiral Ryder
Released: March 29, 1955
Type: Movie
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
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Out of the Clouds
Title: Out of the Clouds
Character: Captain Brent
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A day following workers at an airport
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Duke Campbell, of Argyll
Released: October 26, 1953
Type: Movie
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: King Henry VIII
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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The Voice of Merrill
Title: The Voice of Merrill
Character: Jonathan Roche
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
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Miss Robin Hood
Title: Miss Robin Hood
Character: The MacAlister
Released: November 12, 1952
Type: Movie
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Robert
Released: August 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Title: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Character: Little John
Released: May 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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The Lady Says No
Title: The Lady Says No
Character: Matthew Huntington Hatch
Released: January 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes.
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Anne of the Indies
Title: Anne of the Indies
Character: Red Dougal
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.
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David and Bathsheba
Title: David and Bathsheba
Character: Abishai
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Title: Captain Horatio Hornblower
Character: Seaman Quist
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Character: Engine Room Officer Trotter
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Blackmailed
Title: Blackmailed
Character: Mr. Sine
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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The Magnet
Title: The Magnet
Character: Tramp
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Simeon Beautrie
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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My Daughter Joy
Title: My Daughter Joy
Character: Prof. Keval
Released: August 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
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Prelude to Fame
Title: Prelude to Fame
Character: Sir Arthur Harold
Released: May 2, 1950
Type: Movie
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
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Christopher Columbus
Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Martin Alonso Pinzon
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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Private Angelo
Title: Private Angelo
Character: Feste
Released: July 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
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Poet's Pub
Title: Poet's Pub
Character: Prof. Benbow
Released: July 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
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Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: Dr. Maclaren
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: Arthur Peters
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: P.O. (Taff) Evans R.N.
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Branksome
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Eugene Dakers
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Against the Wind
Title: Against the Wind
Character: Ackerman
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
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Vice Versa
Title: Vice Versa
Character: Dr. Grimstone
Released: January 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Prison Governor
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Fiddlers Three
Title: Fiddlers Three
Character: Centurion of the 8th Legion
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Patron (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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For Those in Peril
Title: For Those in Peril
Character: Operations Room Officer
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.