Bill Shine

Bill Shine

Born: October 20, 1911
Died: July 24, 1997
in London, England, UK
Wilfred William Dennis Shine (20 October 1911 - 24 July 1997), better known as Bill Shine, was a British theatre, film and television actor.

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Title: Super Gran
Character: Inventor Black
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: TV
Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.
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The Jigsaw Man
Title: The Jigsaw Man
Character: Commissionaire
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
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Title: Second Time Around
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: TV
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Not Tonight, Darling
Title: Not Tonight, Darling
Character: Captain Harrison
Released: September 23, 1971
Type: Movie
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them.
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Title: The Ronnie Barker Playhouse
Released: April 3, 1968
Type: TV
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse was a series of six comedy half hours showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion in 1968. The series was written by Brian Cooke, Hugh Leonard, Johnnie Mortimer and Alun Owen. The producers were Stella Richman and actress Stella Tanner. The executive producer was David Frost.
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The Sky Bike
Title: The Sky Bike
Character: Wingco
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Competition between rival inventors endeavouring to win a prize for the first flight by a man-powered flying machine.
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Bindle (One of Them Days)
Title: Bindle (One of Them Days)
Character: Man in country pub
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Based on the book of Herbert Jenkins, a comedy about a accident prone furniture remover and his mate.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Title: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Starveling
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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The Invasion
Title: The Invasion
Character: W. C. Flighty
Released: March 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.
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The Rescue Squad
Title: The Rescue Squad
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A party of children playing on a moor lose their toy aeroplane which flies through the window of a lonely tower. A multitude of objects found in the town to help rescue the aeroplane prove very difficult to get out to the moor, involving them with barrows, traffic and the local hunt. At last they succeed in entering the tower only to get trapped themselves. Finally Neddy, the donkey, shows them the way out.
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Title: Zero One
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
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Double Bunk
Title: Double Bunk
Character: 2nd Thames Conservancy Officer
Released: May 6, 1961
Type: Movie
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Cleghorn
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Title: The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Character: Usher
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 Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Farm Labourer
Released: May 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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Libel
Title: Libel
Character: The Guide
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
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Left Right and Centre
Title: Left Right and Centre
Character: Basingstoke
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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Jack the Ripper
Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Lord Tom Sopwith
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Car Salesman
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 Man Inside
Title: The Man Inside
Character: English Husband
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
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The Diplomatic Corpse
Title: The Diplomatic Corpse
Character: Humphrey Garrad
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Cedric the Simple
Released: January 5, 1958
Type: TV
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
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The House in the Woods
Title: The House in the Woods
Character: Colonel Dick Shellaby
Released: October 31, 1957
Type: Movie
A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.
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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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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Underhay
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Women Without Men
Title: Women Without Men
Character: Reveller
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
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Bond of Fear
Title: Bond of Fear
Character: Hiker
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Title: An Alligator Named Daisy
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
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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The Deep Blue Sea
Title: The Deep Blue Sea
Character: Golfer
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
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Quentin Durward
Title: Quentin Durward
Character: Trois-Eschelles
Released: September 9, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
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John and Julie
Title: John and Julie
Character: Car Driver
Released: July 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Monsieur Ripois
Title: Monsieur Ripois
Character: Pub Barman
Released: September 30, 1954
Type: Movie
While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Saxby
Released: June 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
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The Clue of the Missing Ape
Title: The Clue of the Missing Ape
Character: Crony
Released: November 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
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Melba
Title: Melba
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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There Was a Young Lady
Title: There Was a Young Lady
Character: Charlie, Duke of Chiddingford
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
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Love's a Luxury
Title: Love's a Luxury
Character: Clarence Mole
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Title: Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Character: F/O Prang
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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Something in the City
Title: Something in the City
Character: Reporter
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
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Passport to Pimlico
Title: Passport to Pimlico
Character: Captain Willow
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Title: The Chiltern Hundreds
Character: Reporter
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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Under Capricorn
Title: Under Capricorn
Character: Mr. Banks
Released: September 8, 1949
Type: Movie
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal.
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Private Angelo
Title: Private Angelo
Character: Col. Michael
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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The Small Voice
Title: The Small Voice
Character: Maitland
Released: November 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
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Another Shore
Title: Another Shore
Character: Bats Vere-Brown
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
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The Red Shoes
Title: The Red Shoes
Character: Her Mate
Released: September 6, 1948
Type: Movie
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
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Vice Versa
Title: Vice Versa
Character: Lord Gosport
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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Captain Boycott
Title: Captain Boycott
Character: Press Photographer
Released: August 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Detective Ellis
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Webster
Released: October 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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For You Alone
Title: For You Alone
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
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Fiddlers Three
Title: Fiddlers Three
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
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: Mogador Stage Manager
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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Turned Out Nice Again
Title: Turned Out Nice Again
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Hotel Porter
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Pub Customer
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Minor Role
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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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Bit Role (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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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Untipped steward
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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Over the Moon
Title: Over the Moon
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: Pierre, Babette's Beau
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chevalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chevalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Title: His Lordship Goes to Press
Released: January 16, 1939
Type: Movie
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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The Villiers Diamond
Title: The Villiers Diamond
Character: Joe
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Alfie
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Young and Innocent
Title: Young and Innocent
Character: Manager of Tom's Hat Cafe (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Cpl. Edrich
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Quirk
Released: December 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Blue Smoke
Title: Blue Smoke
Character: Ted
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Albert
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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My Old Dutch
Title: My Old Dutch
Character: Cousin Arry
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
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Waltzes from Vienna
Title: Waltzes from Vienna
Character: Carl (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl gets jealous when a contessa asks Strauss Jr. to write a waltz for her.
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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Butcher's Delivery Boy
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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Verdict of the Sea
Title: Verdict of the Sea
Character: Slim
Released: November 13, 1932
Type: Movie
When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
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These Charming People
Title: These Charming People
Character: Ulysses Wiggins
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
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The Yellow Mask
Title: The Yellow Mask
Character: Sunshine
Released: June 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
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The Last Hour
Title: The Last Hour
Character: Ben
Released: June 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.
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Harmony Heaven
Title: Harmony Heaven
Character: Rejected Actor (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Title: The Loves of Robert Burns
Released: March 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Biography of the ploughboy poet.