Roddy Hughes

Roddy Hughes

Born: June 18, 1891
Died: February 22, 1970
in Porthmadog, Wales, UK

Movies for Roddy Hughes...

The House in Marsh Road
Title: The House in Marsh Road
Character: Daniels
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
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The Spaniard's Curse
Title: The Spaniard's Curse
Character: Arthur Jody
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
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Sea Wife
Title: Sea Wife
Character: Club Barman
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Title: Lilli Palmer Theatre
Character: Mr Pickwick
Released: September 25, 1955
Type: TV
A half-hour anthology series.
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One Jump Ahead
Title: One Jump Ahead
Character: Mac
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.
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Mystery on Bird Island
Title: Mystery on Bird Island
Character: Grumpy
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Story of four youngsters who discover birds' nest thieves on a sanctuary island.From story by Mary Cathcart Borer.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Billings
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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The Final Test
Title: The Final Test
Character: Mr Harborne
Released: April 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hopes to marry.
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Alf's Baby
Title: Alf's Baby
Character: James Prendergast
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
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The Great Game
Title: The Great Game
Character: Mr. Broderick
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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Salute the Toff
Title: Salute the Toff
Character: Jolly
Released: December 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Escape Route
Title: Escape Route
Character: Porter
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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Hammer the Toff
Title: Hammer the Toff
Character: Jolly
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Fezziwig
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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The Man in the White Suit
Title: The Man in the White Suit
Character: Green
Released: August 7, 1951
Type: Movie
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Title: Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Character: Mr. Orders
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
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The Reluctant Widow
Title: The Reluctant Widow
Character: Dr. Greenlaw
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Bespectacled third club member, from Whitehall
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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The Last Days of Dolwyn
Title: The Last Days of Dolwyn
Character: Caradoc
Released: April 13, 1949
Type: Movie
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
Character: Welsh Doctor
Released: February 21, 1949
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Doctor
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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The Dark Road
Title: The Dark Road
Released: July 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Wartime Miners' Spokesman (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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So Well Remembered
Title: So Well Remembered
Character: Chief Librarian
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Tim Linkinwater
Released: March 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Norcott
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Ferraby
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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Here Comes the Sun
Title: Here Comes the Sun
Character: Simpson
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
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In Which We Serve
Title: In Which We Serve
Character: Photographer
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Coroner
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 Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: Journalist
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Minor role (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: German Agent (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: Zigor
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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The Saint's Vacation
Title: The Saint's Vacation
Character: Valet (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Vicar
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Old Mother Riley in Business
Title: Old Mother Riley in Business
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Title: The Ghost of St. Michael's
Character: Amberley
Released: April 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Doctor
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Title: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Character: Butler
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Dangerous Comment
Title: Dangerous Comment
Character: Charlie
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
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The Proud Valley
Title: The Proud Valley
Character: Lloyd - Miner
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Union Committee Member
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Handwriting Expert
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Police Photographer
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Make-Up
Title: Make-Up
Character: Mr. Greenswarter
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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Men of Yesterday
Title: Men of Yesterday
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
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Cheer Up
Title: Cheer Up
Character: Dick Dirk
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: Toomes
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
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Breakers Ahead
Title: Breakers Ahead
Character: Will
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by Anthony Gilkison
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Short
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
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Kentucky Minstrels
Title: Kentucky Minstrels
Character: Town Clerk
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Music Hall
Title: Music Hall
Released: June 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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Say It with Flowers
Title: Say It with Flowers
Character: Sam - Newspaper Seller
Released: May 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
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Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Title: Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker