George Graves

George Graves

Movies for George Graves...

The Robber Symphony
Title: The Robber Symphony
Character: Giannino's grandfather
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bag of loot is stashed in a piano that belongs to a family of traveling entertainers. A gang of robbers tries to get the loot back, and though they kddnap two members of the troop, the third, a young boy, has run off with the piano.
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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: Colonel Trent
Released: August 12, 1936
Type: Movie
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
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A Star Fell from Heaven
Title: A Star Fell from Heaven
Character: Fischer
Released: June 8, 1936
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
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Heart's Desire
Title: Heart's Desire
Character: Granville Wilson
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
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Honours Easy
Title: Honours Easy
Character: Colonel Bagnall
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.
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Those Were the Days
Title: Those Were the Days
Character: Col. Alexander Lukyn
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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The Crooked Lady
Title: The Crooked Lady
Character: Sir Charles Murdoch
Released: March 16, 1932
Type: Movie
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
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The Jerry Builders
Title: The Jerry Builders
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
NEAT AND TIDY (1930) hilarious British Pathe comedy short with wonderful music hall comics. Newlyweds are old by the time their house is built.