Graham Moffatt

Graham Moffatt

Born: December 6, 1919
Died: July 2, 1965
in London, England, UK
Moffatt was born on 6 December 1919 in Hammersmith, West London (England). He first worked as a call boy at Shepherd's Bush Studios, until actor Tom Walls suggested him for a bit part in the 1934 film A Cup of Kindness. Moffatt appeared in five more films, in mostly uncredited, minor roles, before getting his big break in Will Hay's Where There's Will (1936), then going on to appear in many more of Hay's films, alongside Moore Marriott.

Movies for Graham Moffatt...

Inn for Trouble
Title: Inn for Trouble
Character: Jumbo Gudge
Released: January 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
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The Dragon of Pendragon Castle
Title: The Dragon of Pendragon Castle
Character: Paddy
Released: May 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Mr. Ferber is an old man living in Pendragon Castle along with his two grandchildren Bobby and Paddy who find a small dragon to heat their castle. The dragon helps them to find hidden treasure in the castle.
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Title: Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Character: The Yokel
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
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The Second Mate
Title: The Second Mate
Character: Paddy
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Murderous smugglers kidnap a troublesome Bargemans son in this British crime drama, filmed on the Thames.
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Woman Hater
Title: Woman Hater
Character: Fat Boy
Released: October 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Title: I Know Where I'm Going!
Character: R.A.F. Sergeant
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
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A Canterbury Tale
Title: A Canterbury Tale
Character: Sergt. Stuffy
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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Welcome, Mr Washington
Title: Welcome, Mr Washington
Character: Albert Brown
Released: May 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
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Time Flies
Title: Time Flies
Character: His Nephew
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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Back-Room Boy
Title: Back-Room Boy
Character: Albert
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
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Hi Gang!
Title: Hi Gang!
Character: Albert Tomlin
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
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I Thank You
Title: I Thank You
Character: Albert
Released: October 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Title: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Character: Albert Brown
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Title: Cheer Boys Cheer
Character: Albert Baldwin
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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Where's That Fire
Title: Where's That Fire
Character: Albert Brown
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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Ask a Policeman
Title: Ask a Policeman
Character: Albert
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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Old Bones of the River
Title: Old Bones of the River
Character: Albert Brown
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R.P for short), and dedicated to spreading education amongst the natives of colonial Africa. As he arrives (still trying to learn the native language via recordings), Professor Tibbetts is tricked into sneaking a gin still into the country by a local prince. Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb and Tibbetts finds himself sporting a mortarboard and safari shorts due to the heat. When the Commissioner falls ill with a dose of malaria, Tibbetts is forced to take over his duties, which include collecting the taxes. Upriver, he finds an old paddlesteamer operated by Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the threesome rescue a baby from death by sacrifice.
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Convict 99
Title: Convict 99
Character: Albert Brown
Released: September 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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Owd Bob
Title: Owd Bob
Character: Tammas
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
Title: Oh, Mr. Porter!
Character: Albert Brown
Released: October 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
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Doctor Syn
Title: Doctor Syn
Character: Jerry Jerk
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Gangway
Title: Gangway
Character: Joe
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Good Morning, Boys!
Title: Good Morning, Boys!
Character: Albert Brown
Released: May 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
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O-Kay for Sound
Title: O-Kay for Sound
Character: Albert, the page boy
Released: February 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Albert
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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All In!
Title: All In!
Character: Boy on Slot Machine
Released: October 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Willie, The Office Boy
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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The Clairvoyant
Title: The Clairvoyant
Character: Page Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)