A. Bromley Davenport

A. Bromley Davenport

Born: October 29, 1867
Died: December 15, 1946

Movies for A. Bromley Davenport...

The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Old Chelsea Soldier
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Mayor
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Sir Evan Nepean
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Title: Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Character: Warrender
Released: June 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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The Farmer's Wife
Title: The Farmer's Wife
Character: Henry Coaker
Released: April 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
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The Second Mr. Bush
Title: The Second Mr. Bush
Character: Colonel Barlow
Released: April 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
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The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Davis
Character: Lord Avonmouth
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Lord Ringwood
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Owd Bob
Title: Owd Bob
Character: Mr. Parker
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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Murder in the Family
Title: Murder in the Family
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
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Second Thoughts
Title: Second Thoughts
Character: George Gaunt
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
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London Melody
Title: London Melody
Character: General Taplow
Released: February 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
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The Cardinal
Title: The Cardinal
Character: Bramante
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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Vintage Wine
Title: Vintage Wine
Character: Pierre
Released: June 19, 1935
Type: Movie
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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So You Won't Talk
Title: So You Won't Talk
Character: Mr Fielding
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: French innkeeper (Brogard)
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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The Warren Case
Title: The Warren Case
Character: Sir Richard Clavering
Released: July 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
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Lost In The Legion
Title: Lost In The Legion
Character: Colonel
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Character: Menkenburg
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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The Pointing Finger
Title: The Pointing Finger
Character: Lord Edensore
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Peter Browne
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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Dora
Title: Dora
Character: Judge
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Title: Lord Camber's Ladies
Character: Sir Bedford Slufter
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: Gaston de Brisson
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
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The Return of Raffles
Title: The Return of Raffles
Character: Sir John Truwode
Released: September 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
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Money Means Nothing
Title: Money Means Nothing
Character: Earl of Massingham
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
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When London Sleeps
Title: When London Sleeps
Character: Colonel Graham
Released: July 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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Flat No. 9
Title: Flat No. 9
Character: Caretaker
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
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Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Title: Mr. Bill the Conqueror
Character: Lord Blagden
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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Self Made Lady
Title: Self Made Lady
Character: Duke of Alchester
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Lord Belton
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Captivation
Title: Captivation
Character: Colonel Jordan
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Mr. Jordan
Released: October 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by George King.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: The Man Upstairs
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
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The American Prisoner
Title: The American Prisoner
Character: Squire Malherb
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
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The Blue Peter
Title: The Blue Peter
Character: Mr. Callaghan
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: Hesketh Pointer, MP
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Sister to Assist 'Er
Title: A Sister to Assist 'Er
Character: Jim Harris
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Glad Eye
Title: The Glad Eye
Character: Galipaux
Released: June 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
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Eugene Aram
Title: Eugene Aram
Character: Cpl. Bunting
Released: February 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Sally Bishop
Title: Sally Bishop
Character: Landlord
Released: December 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: Sir John Cope
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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A Maid of the Silver Sea
Title: A Maid of the Silver Sea
Character: Old Tom Hamon
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
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Fox Farm
Title: Fox Farm
Character: Sam Wetherell
Released: July 4, 1922
Type: Movie
A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
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The Great Gay Road
Title: The Great Gay Road
Character: Sir Crispin Vickrey
Released: October 4, 1920
Type: Movie
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.