Syd Courtenay

Syd Courtenay

Movies for Syd Courtenay...

Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: The Mayor
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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Boys Will Be Girls
Title: Boys Will Be Girls
Character: Rookum
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
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Lost In The Legion
Title: Lost In The Legion
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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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
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Old Spanish Customers
Title: Old Spanish Customers
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Concert Party Violinist (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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Bill's Legacy
Title: Bill's Legacy
Character: Count
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
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Poor Old Bill
Title: Poor Old Bill
Character: Harry
Released: June 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
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What a Night!
Title: What a Night!
Character: Mr. Merry
Released: March 13, 1931
Type: Movie
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
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Why Sailors Leave Home
Title: Why Sailors Leave Home
Character: Sheik Sidi Ben
Released: September 1, 1930
Type: Movie
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
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Kiss Me Sergeant
Title: Kiss Me Sergeant
Character: Lieutenant
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
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Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Title: Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Lieutenant
Released: May 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.