Jack Vyvyan

Jack Vyvyan

Born: March 31, 1889
Died: December 28, 1955
in Fulham, London, England, UK

Movies for Jack Vyvyan...

The Interrupted Journey
Title: The Interrupted Journey
Character: the second workman
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Uncle Sam (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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A Man's Affair
Title: A Man's Affair
Character: George
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast and love blossoms.
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Riders of the New Forest
Title: Riders of the New Forest
Character: Horse Thief
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Two children attempt to tame a wild New forest pony in this jolly kids' adventure. When they befriend local farm hand, Davy, the children begin to suspect he may be a horse thief.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Title: The Shop at Sly Corner
Character: Corder Morris
Released: July 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A shrewd ex-prisoner runs a successful antique shop -- until his assistant discovers the collectibles are stolen goods and begins blackmailing him.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Village Postman (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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I'll Turn to You
Title: I'll Turn to You
Character: Stage Door Keeper
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
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The Voice Within
Title: The Voice Within
Character: Constable O'Kelly
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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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Hawkins
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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The Demi-Paradise
Title: The Demi-Paradise
Character: Orator in Hyde Park
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
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Millions Like Us
Title: Millions Like Us
Character: Sam - Soldier Peeling Potatoes
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Commissionaire at Art School
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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The Goose Steps Out
Title: The Goose Steps Out
Character: Detective Evans (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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The Night Has Eyes
Title: The Night Has Eyes
Character: Local Policeman (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Title: Sheepdog of the Hills
Character: Constable Jason
Released: December 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
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Turned Out Nice Again
Title: Turned Out Nice Again
Character: Removal Man
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Sgt. Wells
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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Just William
Title: Just William
Character: Policeman
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
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Inspector Hornleigh
Title: Inspector Hornleigh
Character: Sgt Hawkins
Released: March 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Policeman Playing Cards
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: Police Sgt
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Jock McKenzie (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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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Corporal in Ambulance
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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This Man Is News
Title: This Man Is News
Character: White, a Fireman
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Police Constable (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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I See Ice
Title: I See Ice
Character: Train Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1938
Type: Movie
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Character: Crump
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Character: PC Pat Johnson
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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The Gap
Title: The Gap
Character: Butcher (as Jack Vivyan)
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
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Under a Cloud
Title: Under a Cloud
Character: Inspector Bryan
Released: August 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
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Keep Fit
Title: Keep Fit
Character: Boat Hire Man
Released: July 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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Street Song
Title: Street Song
Character: Detective
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Police Inspector (uncredited)
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.