Richard Bird

Richard Bird

Born: April 4, 1895
Died: January 1, 1979
in Liverpool, England, UK

Movies for Richard Bird...

Title: Public Eye
Character: Jackson
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Title: Detective
Character: Seth Crabtree
Released: March 30, 1964
Type: TV
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
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The Secret Thread
Title: The Secret Thread
Character: Larry
Released: January 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A writer, Arnold Reed, goes back to his former boyhood home in the East End, and there, finding it about to be torn down, he revisits his attic room, and stumbles on evidence of the operations of dealers in illegal traffic. He breaks his ankle and has to hide from the criminals, one of whom is a murderer.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Jennings
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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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Ghost / Arthur
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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The Halfway House
Title: The Halfway House
Character: Squadron Leader Richard French
Released: February 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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I'll Walk Beside You
Title: I'll Walk Beside You
Character: John Brent
Released: August 16, 1943
Type: Movie
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
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The Door with Seven Locks
Title: The Door with Seven Locks
Character: Inspector Cornelius 'Andy' Sneed
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Caldwell
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Henry Beicher
Released: December 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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Invitation To The Waltz
Title: Invitation To The Waltz
Character: Weber
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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The Crouching Beast
Title: The Crouching Beast
Character: Nigel Druce
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
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Mimi
Title: Mimi
Character: Colline
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Eric Hammond
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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What Happened Then?
Title: What Happened Then?
Character: Peter Bromley
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
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The Warren Case
Title: The Warren Case
Character: Louis Bevan
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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The Right to Live
Title: The Right to Live
Character: Richard Fulton
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical
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White Face
Title: White Face
Character: Donald Bateman
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
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The Water Gipsies
Title: The Water Gipsies
Character: Ernest
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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Nine Till Six
Title: Nine Till Six
Character: Jimmie Pennarth
Released: March 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
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Tilly of Bloomsbury
Title: Tilly of Bloomsbury
Character: Dick Mainwaring
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.