Charles Rolfe

Charles Rolfe

Born: February 27, 1885
Died: July 8, 1965
in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia

Movies for Charles Rolfe...

The Piper's Tune
Title: The Piper's Tune
Character: Martinez
Released: February 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
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Thunder on Sycamore Street
Title: Thunder on Sycamore Street
Character: Mr. Harkness
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.
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The Gold Express
Title: The Gold Express
Character: George Phillips
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Art Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
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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Miranda
Title: Miranda
Character: On the Kiosk (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1948
Type: Movie
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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Dear Murderer
Title: Dear Murderer
Character: Prison Warden
Released: June 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Court Usher
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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Sky Battalion
Title: Sky Battalion
Released: March 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
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The Voice Within
Title: The Voice Within
Character: 2nd I.R.A. Man
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: 2nd. Auxiliary Sentinel
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Johnny Frenchman
Title: Johnny Frenchman
Character: English Sailor (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Mario Carloni
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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A City Reborn
Title: A City Reborn
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.
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Time Flies
Title: Time Flies
Character: American Cop (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Mr. Palmer (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Richards
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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Tower of Terror
Title: Tower of Terror
Character: Albers
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
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49th Parallel
Title: 49th Parallel
Character: Bob
Released: November 24, 1941
Type: Movie
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Detective Inspector
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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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: German Officer at Customs
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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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Peacock - Wardroom Steward
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Manservant at Castle (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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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: 2nd Arresting Policeman
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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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Witness (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Title: Cheer Boys Cheer
Character: Ironside Thug
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Card Player at Billiard Halls (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Train Fireman (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Second Detective
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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Crime on the Hill
Title: Crime on the Hill
Character: Shooting Gallery Attendant
Released: December 27, 1933
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.