Cyril Chamberlain

Cyril Chamberlain

Born: March 8, 1909
Died: December 5, 1974
in London, England, UK
Cyril Chamberlain (8 March 1909 – 5 December 1974) was an English film and television actor.

Movies for Cyril Chamberlain...

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Title: The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Character: Maxie
Released: March 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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Ring of Spies
Title: Ring of Spies
Character: Anderson
Released: March 23, 1964
Type: Movie
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
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The Iron Maiden
Title: The Iron Maiden
Character: Mrs. Webb's Teammate
Released: June 7, 1963
Type: Movie
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
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Two Left Feet
Title: Two Left Feet
Character: Miles
Released: March 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl who can offer him the experience he lacks. Every time Alan tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a trip-and-stumble. Then he meets Eileen (Nyree Dawn Porter), the new waitress at the corner cafe, who signal unmistakable messages with her large inviting eyes.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Flavel
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Stryker of the Yard
Released: November 2, 1961
Type: TV
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: L.A.M.A. Porter
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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Flame in the Streets
Title: Flame in the Streets
Character: Dowell
Released: June 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
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Dentist on the Job
Title: Dentist on the Job
Character: Director
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Title: The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Character: Army Captain
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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Two Way Stretch
Title: Two Way Stretch
Character: Gate Warder (Day)
Released: December 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
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No Kidding
Title: No Kidding
Character: Cafe Proprietor
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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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
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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The League of Gentlemen
Title: The League of Gentlemen
Character: AA Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Carry On Constable
Title: Carry On Constable
Character: Thurston
Released: February 22, 1960
Type: Movie
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.
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Please Turn Over
Title: Please Turn Over
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: December 17, 1959
Type: Movie
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Title: Upstairs and Downstairs
Character: Guard
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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The Ugly Duckling
Title: The Ugly Duckling
Character: Police Sergeant
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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Carry On Teacher
Title: Carry On Teacher
Character: Alf Hudson
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!
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The Heart of a Man
Title: The Heart of a Man
Character: Boxing Match MC
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
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Operation Bullshine
Title: Operation Bullshine
Character: Orderly Sgt.
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
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Carry On Nurse
Title: Carry On Nurse
Character: Bert Able
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
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Chain of Events
Title: Chain of Events
Character: Bus Conductor
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Vogel
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Carry On Sergeant
Title: Carry On Sergeant
Character: Gun Sergeant
Released: August 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!
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Man with a Gun
Title: Man with a Gun
Character: Supt. Wood
Released: August 11, 1958
Type: Movie
A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Quartermaster George Thomas Rowe
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Wonderful Things!
Title: Wonderful Things!
Character: Butler
Released: June 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.
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The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Detective at Hotel
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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The Duke Wore Jeans
Title: The Duke Wore Jeans
Character: Barman
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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Innocent Sinners
Title: Innocent Sinners
Character: Col. Francis Baldock
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Liftman (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Title: Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Character: Army Captain
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
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No Time for Tears
Title: No Time for Tears
Character: Hall Porter
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
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The Tommy Steele Story
Title: The Tommy Steele Story
Character: Chief Steward
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.
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The Green Man
Title: The Green Man
Character: Sergeant Bassett
Released: December 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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Up in the World
Title: Up in the World
Character: Harper
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
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The Gamma People
Title: The Gamma People
Character: Graf
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Cinema Patron
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Uniformed Police Officer (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1956
Type: Movie
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
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Dial 999
Title: Dial 999
Character: Anderson (murder victim)
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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Simon and Laura
Title: Simon and Laura
Character: Bert
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Tiger by the Tail
Title: Tiger by the Tail
Character: Foster
Released: September 19, 1955
Type: Movie
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on him. This is only the start of his troubles, as Anna worked for a criminal organisation who know Desmond has now got her valuable contacts list.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Whimble
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: CPO Chubb
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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The Embezzler
Title: The Embezzler
Character: Alec Johnson
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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Forbidden Cargo
Title: Forbidden Cargo
Character: Customs Officer
Released: May 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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The Diamond Wizard
Title: The Diamond Wizard
Character: Castle
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) assists Scotland Yard Insp. McClaren (Philip Friend) in his search for a missing atomic scientist (Paul Hardtmuth). The detective duo discovers that the key to solving both cases may rest with the scientist's daughter (Margaret Sheridan) and her fascinating diamond.
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Policeman
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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Impulse
Title: Impulse
Character: Gray
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
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Trouble in Store
Title: Trouble in Store
Character: Alf
Released: December 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
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A Day to Remember
Title: A Day to Remember
Character: Boarding Card Official on Ferry
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Inspector Carter
Released: February 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
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Folly to Be Wise
Title: Folly to Be Wise
Character: Drill Sergeant
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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Sing Along with Me
Title: Sing Along with Me
Character: Jack Bates
Released: February 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of a grocer who wins a radio song writing contest and is signed on by a music publisher. Placed in a luxury flat in London he is like fish out of water.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Title: Lady Godiva Rides Again
Character: Harry, the boarder
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Commander
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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Scarlet Thread
Title: Scarlet Thread
Character: Mason
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
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Fortune in Diamonds
Title: Fortune in Diamonds
Character: Waiter
Released: March 7, 1951
Type: Movie
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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Blackmailed
Title: Blackmailed
Character: Police Constable
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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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Title: Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Character: Captain Daincourt
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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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Reporter
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Detective Sgt. Loomis (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Title: The Chiltern Hundreds
Character: Sentry
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Title: Don't Ever Leave Me
Character: News Reporter
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
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Marry Me
Title: Marry Me
Character: P.C. Jackson
Released: June 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: Johnnie
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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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Character: Bert Gardner
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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The Bad Lord Byron
Title: The Bad Lord Byron
Character: Defending Counsel
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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It's Not Cricket
Title: It's Not Cricket
Character: MP #2
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Title: Once a Jolly Swagman
Character: Reporter
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: Bit Part
Released: January 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Policeman at Crash Site (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Supervisor
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Det Sgt Wilson
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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The Blind Goddess
Title: The Blind Goddess
Character: Policeman in Park
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Archer
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: Customs Official
Released: July 5, 1948
Type: Movie
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
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Nightbeat
Title: Nightbeat
Character: PC Rix
Released: December 22, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Henchman "Sniffy"
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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The Upturned Glass
Title: The Upturned Glass
Character: Junior Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Runner
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: B.B.C. Producer
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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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Jenkins
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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Old Mother Riley in Business
Title: Old Mother Riley in Business
Character: John Halliwell
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
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Night Watch
Title: Night Watch
Character: The Man
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Policeman
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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Love on Leave
Title: Love on Leave
Character: George Hurst
Released: November 13, 1940
Type: Movie
George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine, George enters a relationship with another woman.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: American (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Title: Old Mother Riley in Society
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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The Body Vanished
Title: The Body Vanished
Character: Auctioneer
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
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The Spy in Black
Title: The Spy in Black
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Peter Cashelton
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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This Man in Paris
Title: This Man in Paris
Character: Swindon
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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Ask a Policeman
Title: Ask a Policeman
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: April 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Title: Dead Men Are Dangerous
Character: George Franklin
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Bit Role
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.