Elwyn Brook-Jones

Elwyn Brook-Jones

Born: December 11, 1911
Died: September 4, 1962
in Caerphilly, Gwent, Wales, UK
Elwyn Brook-Jones (11 December 1911 – 4 September 1962) was an actor.

Movies for Elwyn Brook-Jones...

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Title: The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Character: Emir
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
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The Ugly Duckling
Title: The Ugly Duckling
Character: Dandy
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
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Title: Garry Halliday
Released: February 28, 1959
Type: TV
Garry Halliday is a British television series for children that ran on the BBC from 1959 to 1962. The show starred Terence Longdon as airman Garry Halliday. The episodes were closely based on the books by Justin Blake.
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Passport to Shame
Title: Passport to Shame
Character: Solicitor Heath
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Professor Masterson
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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The Duke Wore Jeans
Title: The Duke Wore Jeans
Character: Bartolomeo
Released: March 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
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Rogue's Yarn
Title: Rogue's Yarn
Character: Inspector Walker
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
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Assignment Redhead
Title: Assignment Redhead
Character: Digby Mitchel
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Bruno Lucas
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
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The Harassed Hero
Title: The Harassed Hero
Character: Logan
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any stress or excitement in his life. Unfortunately -- thanks to a chance encounter in a London taxi cab -- he now finds himself at the very centre of an explosive international criminal caper and his life is filled with suitcases full of hot money, desperate gunmen and vanishing bodies! More dangerous still, he's been cared for by the rather ravishing Nurse Brook (Joan Winmill Brown) -- a girl guaranteed to stimulate any red-blooded English gentleman! How much excitement can one man take?
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Three Steps In The Dark
Title: Three Steps In The Dark
Character: Wilbrahim
Released: August 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.
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The Night Won't Talk
Title: The Night Won't Talk
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When a beautiful young artist's model is strangled in her bed, Scotland Yard find themselves with three suspects -- her sinister ex-husband (Elwyn Brook-Jones), a sexually disturbed artist (Ballard Berkeley) and her violent new boyfriend (John Bailey), who is prone to unexplained blackouts.To catch the killer, the police must set a dangerous trap with the aid of a famous sculptress (Hy Hazell).
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Judgment Deferred
Title: Judgment Deferred
Character: Coxon
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
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The Wonder Kid
Title: The Wonder Kid
Character: Mr. Gorik
Released: November 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Bobby Henrey, the amazing juvenile star of The Fallen Idol, is here cast as 7-year-old musical genius Sebastian Giro. Mistreated by his avaricious adult manager, Sebastian runs away to a remote Alpine village. He then falls into the hands of a gang of kidnappers, led by the basically sympathetic Jack.
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I'll Get You for This
Title: I'll Get You for This
Character: The Fence
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: Benny Erivangian
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
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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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Budibent
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: The Duke of Cumberland
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Mr. Pottinger
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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The Three Weird Sisters
Title: The Three Weird Sisters
Character: Thomas
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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Odd Man Out
Title: Odd Man Out
Character: Tober
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Rope
Title: Rope
Character: Rupert Cadell
Released: January 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Bit Part
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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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.