Hartley Power

Hartley Power

Born: March 14, 1894
Died: January 29, 1966
in New York City, New York
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Hartley Power (1894–1966) was an American-born British film and television actor.  He is best remembered for two roles: "Sylvester Kee" the ventriloquist who is shot and almost killed by "Maxwell Frere" (Michael Redgrave) as a rival for his "dummy"'s affections in Dead of Night; the chief of the news agency that Gregory Peck worked for in Roman Holiday.

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Island in the Sun
Title: Island in the Sun
Character: Bradshaw
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.
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To Dorothy, a Son
Title: To Dorothy, a Son
Character: Cy Daniel
Released: October 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
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The Million Pound Note
Title: The Million Pound Note
Character: Lloyd Hastings
Released: January 7, 1954
Type: Movie
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
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Roman Holiday
Title: Roman Holiday
Character: Mr. Hennessy
Released: August 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: General Adams (uncredited)
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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The Armchair Detective
Title: The Armchair Detective
Character: Nicco
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The BBC armchair detective clears a nightclub singer of suspicion of the murder of her boss.
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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The Way to the Stars
Title: The Way to the Stars
Character: Colonel Page
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Col. Bagley
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Gordon
Released: August 10, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Samuel 'Sam' Cunard
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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A Window in London
Title: A Window in London
Character: Max Preston
Released: June 15, 1940
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Regan
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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Murder Will Out
Title: Murder Will Out
Character: Campbell
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
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The Return of the Frog
Title: The Return of the Frog
Character: 'Chicago Dale' Sandford
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Duke Wilson
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Living Dangerously
Title: Living Dangerously
Character: District Attorney Garrett Gale
Released: March 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.
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Jury's Evidence
Title: Jury's Evidence
Character: Edgar Trent
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Dick D'Arcy
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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The Camels Are Coming
Title: The Camels Are Coming
Character: Nicholas
Released: October 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
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Aunt Sally
Title: Aunt Sally
Character: 'Gloves' Clark
Released: June 13, 1934
Type: Movie
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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Evergreen
Title: Evergreen
Character: Treadwell
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: American #1
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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Leave It to Smith
Title: Leave It to Smith
Character: John Mortimer
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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Yes, Mr. Brown
Title: Yes, Mr. Brown
Character: Mr Brown
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
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Down River
Title: Down River
Character: Lingard
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.