Frederick Leister

Frederick Leister

Born: December 1, 1885
Died: August 24, 1970
in London, England, UK

Movies for Frederick Leister...

The Naked Edge
Title: The Naked Edge
Character: Judge
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
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Trouble in the Sky
Title: Trouble in the Sky
Character: Sir Henry
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Sir Isaac Spendler
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Left Right and Centre
Title: Left Right and Centre
Character: himself
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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Rx Murder
Title: Rx Murder
Character: Doctor Alexander
Released: February 18, 1958
Type: Movie
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
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Dangerous Exile
Title: Dangerous Exile
Character: Capt. Andrew Ogden
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Reform Club Member (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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Footsteps in the Fog
Title: Footsteps in the Fog
Character: Dr. Simpson
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Committee Member
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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The End of the Affair
Title: The End of the Affair
Character: Dr Collingwood
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
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Before I Wake
Title: Before I Wake
Character: Dr. Elder
Released: February 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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The Time of His Life
Title: The Time of His Life
Character: Sir John
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!
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Souls in Conflict
Title: Souls in Conflict
Character: Rev. Alan Woodbridge
Released: September 28, 1954
Type: Movie
An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Prime Minister
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Sir Edward Carteret
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
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The Crimson Pirate
Title: The Crimson Pirate
Character: Sebastian
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
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Green Grow the Rushes
Title: Green Grow the Rushes
Character: Col. Gill
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
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The Rossiter Case
Title: The Rossiter Case
Character: Sir James Ferguson
Released: January 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Title: The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Judge
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Admiral
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: The Director General
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Character: The Vicar
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Dr. Franklin
Released: February 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Prison Governor
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Judge
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
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Nightbeat
Title: Nightbeat
Character: Magistrate
Released: December 22, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Henry Errington
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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So Well Remembered
Title: So Well Remembered
Character: John Channing
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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The Captive Heart
Title: The Captive Heart
Character: Mr. Mowbray
Released: April 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Character: Captain Blood
Released: January 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Mark Overend
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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One Exciting Night
Title: One Exciting Night
Character: Hampton
Released: December 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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The Hundred Pound Window
Title: The Hundred Pound Window
Character: Ernest Draper
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Shipbuilders
Title: The Shipbuilders
Character: Mr. Villier
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Dear Octopus
Title: Dear Octopus
Character: Charles Randolph
Released: September 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: Colonel Lawrence
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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We'll Meet Again
Title: We'll Meet Again
Character: Mr. Hastropp
Released: January 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She hooks up with a young musician who composes classical music and turns his nose up at this vulgar "popular" music, but she believes he can be a success at it and sets out to turn him around.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Colonel
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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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: James Morison
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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The Spell of Amy Nugent
Title: The Spell of Amy Nugent
Character: Mr. Vincent
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
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The Prime Minister
Title: The Prime Minister
Character: Lord Melbourne
Released: March 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
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On the Night of the Fire
Title: On the Night of the Fire
Character: Inspector
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Marsham
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Joseph Sturdee
Released: January 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: Herbert H. Asquith
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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Dinner at the Ritz
Title: Dinner at the Ritz
Character: Tarade
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
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King Solomon's Mines
Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Diamond Buyer
Released: June 17, 1937
Type: Movie
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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The Show Goes On
Title: The Show Goes On
Character: O.B. Dalton
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
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O.H.M.S.
Title: O.H.M.S.
Character: Vice Consul
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: Emperor
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Character: King of Prussia
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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Evensong
Title: Evensong
Character: Emperor FranzJosef
Released: September 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Title: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Character: Sir James Hall
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
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Down River
Title: Down River
Character: Inspector Manning
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
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Dreyfus
Title: Dreyfus
Character: Edgar Demange
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
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Bracelets
Title: Bracelets
Character: Slim Symes
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.