Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson

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The New Lot
Title: The New Lot
Character: Railway Porter
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Hansom Cab Driver
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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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Customer in Cafe
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Man at Demonstration
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Fritz - Fenner's Dresser (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Title: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Character: Cabby
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
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The Proud Valley
Title: The Proud Valley
Character: Cage Operator
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Looting Miner
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Programme Seller (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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There Ain't No Justice
Title: There Ain't No Justice
Character: Harry Dunn (Tommy's Trainer)
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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Cotton Queen
Title: Cotton Queen
Character: Hawkins
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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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Charlie (The Barman)
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Walter
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Man Outside Market
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Dandy Dick
Title: Dandy Dick
Character: Council Member
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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Lost In The Legion
Title: Lost In The Legion
Character: Fritz
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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Loyalties
Title: Loyalties
Character: Jenkins
Released: July 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
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Old Spanish Customers
Title: Old Spanish Customers
Character: Whist player
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!