Frederick Worlock

Frederick Worlock

Born: December 14, 1886
Died: August 1, 1973
in London, England, UK
Frederick Worlock was a British-American actor. He is known for his work in various films during the 1940s and 1950s, and as the voice of Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. On stage, he made his début in 1906 in Henry V in Bristol and acted in four productions in London before moving to the United States in the 1920s, where he appeared in Broadway productions between 1923 and 1954. From 1938 to 1966, Worlock appeared as a supporting actor in films including Man Hunt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, How Green Was My Valley, The Imperfect Lady, Singapore, The Lone Wolf in London, Love from a Stranger, Ruthless, Joan of Arc, Spartacus, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (voice-over), and Spinout. He appeared in a number of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone in the 1940s. The diginfied-looking British actor often portrayed "professorial roles, some benign, some villainous". Worlock died from cerebral ischemia in 1973, at the age of 86.

Movies for Frederick Worlock...

Disney's Halloween Treat
Title: Disney's Halloween Treat
Character: Horace (voice) (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
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Spinout
Title: Spinout
Character: Blodgett
Released: October 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
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Strange Bedfellows
Title: Strange Bedfellows
Character: Mr. Martindale (Lawyer) (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1965
Type: Movie
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Title: The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Character: Lord Derby
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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The Notorious Landlady
Title: The Notorious Landlady
Character: Elderly Colonel (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Title: One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Character: Horace / Inspector Craven (voice)
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Laelius
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Gus Harrison
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mr. Betts
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Barclay
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Earl of Gloucester
Released: October 18, 1953
Type: Movie
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Lord Mayor (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Duke of Bedford, England's Regent
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Ruthless
Title: Ruthless
Character: J. Norton Sims
Released: April 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Actor in "Othello"
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Love from a Stranger
Title: Love from a Stranger
Character: Inspector Hobday
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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Singapore
Title: Singapore
Character: Cadum
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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Last of the Redmen
Title: Last of the Redmen
Character: Gen. Webb
Released: August 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro, her sister Cora, and her young brother Davy from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap.
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The Macomber Affair
Title: The Macomber Affair
Character: Clerk
Released: April 20, 1947
Type: Movie
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
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The Imperfect Lady
Title: The Imperfect Lady
Character: Henderson
Released: November 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Colonel Cavanaugh
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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She-Wolf of London
Title: She-Wolf of London
Character: Park Patrol Constable-in-Charge Ernie Hobbs
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: Prof. William Kilbane
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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Captain Kidd
Title: Captain Kidd
Character: Landers - Newgate Prison Governor (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
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Pursuit to Algiers
Title: Pursuit to Algiers
Character: Prime Minister
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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Scotland Yard Investigator
Title: Scotland Yard Investigator
Character: John Brent
Released: September 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
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The Fatal Witness
Title: The Fatal Witness
Character: Sir Humphrey Mong
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
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The Woman in Green
Title: The Woman in Green
Character: Dr. Onslow
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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Hangover Square
Title: Hangover Square
Character: Supt. Clay (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1945
Type: Movie
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Sam--Waiter at Inn
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Title: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Character: Geoffrey Musgrave
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Passport to Suez
Title: Passport to Suez
Character: Sir Roger Wembley
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Sir James Langley
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Von Ritter - Ministry of Information (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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The Mantrap
Title: The Mantrap
Character: Patrick Berwick
Released: April 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Otto
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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London Blackout Murders
Title: London Blackout Murders
Character: Eugene Caldwell (as Frederic Worlock)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
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The Black Swan
Title: The Black Swan
Character: Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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Madero of Mexico
Title: Madero of Mexico
Character: Aristocratic Landowner (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
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Keep 'Em Sailing
Title: Keep 'Em Sailing
Character: Hugo Stregel
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Grenfall
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Pacific Rendezvous
Title: Pacific Rendezvous
Character: Dr. Jackwin
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Dr. Richards
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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International Lady
Title: International Lady
Character: Sir Henry
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Canadian Major
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dr. Heath
Released: August 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Lord Gerald Risborough
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Rage in Heaven
Title: Rage in Heaven
Character: Solicitor-General
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Hudson's Bay
Title: Hudson's Bay
Character: English Governor
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
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Murder Over New York
Title: Murder Over New York
Character: Insp. Hugh Drake
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Title: He Stayed for Breakfast
Character: Communist President
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Darnell
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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Moon Over Burma
Title: Moon Over Burma
Character: Stephen Harmon
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Grideau, the Prison Head
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Northwest Passage
Title: Northwest Passage
Character: Sir William Johnson
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Lord Elfie (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Ramensky
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Colonel Demassey
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Dr. Cesar Sabbatt
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.