A.E. Matthews

A.E. Matthews

Born: November 21, 1869
Died: July 20, 1969
in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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A.E. Matthews OBE (22 November 1869 – 25 July 1960) was an English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades.

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Inn for Trouble
Title: Inn for Trouble
Character: Sir Hector Gore-Blandish
Released: January 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
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Title: The Sky Larks
Character: Vice-Admiral Sir Godfrey Wiggin-Fanshawe, KBE, DSO, DSC, RN
Released: July 11, 1958
Type: TV
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Carry on Admiral
Title: Carry on Admiral
Character: Admiral Sir Maximillian Godfrey K.C.B.
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Duke of Skye and Lewes
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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The Square
Title: The Square
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.
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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: 1st Old Gentleman
Released: December 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Club Member
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Loser Takes All
Title: Loser Takes All
Character: Man
Released: September 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
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Jumping for Joy
Title: Jumping for Joy
Character: Lord Reginald Cranfield
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
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Dead by Morning
Title: Dead by Morning
Character: Mr. Potts
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
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Aunt Clara
Title: Aunt Clara
Character: Simon Hilton
Released: November 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: General O'Leary
Released: June 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The Million Pound Note
Title: The Million Pound Note
Character: Duke of Frognal
Released: January 7, 1954
Type: Movie
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Skid Kids
Title: Skid Kids
Character: The man in the taxi
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Story about a group of young cyclist track riders and their effort to retain their track against long odds.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Grandpa
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
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Something Money Can't Buy
Title: Something Money Can't Buy
Released: July 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals.
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Who Goes There!
Title: Who Goes There!
Character: Sir Arthur Cornwall
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
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Castle in the Air
Title: Castle in the Air
Character: Blair
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle
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Penny Princess
Title: Penny Princess
Character: Selby
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Old Gentleman
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Mr. Drake's Duck
Title: Mr. Drake's Duck
Character: Brig. Matthews
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
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Laughter in Paradise
Title: Laughter in Paradise
Character: Justice Sir Charles Robson
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Sir Robert Medleigh
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Air Raid Warden
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Title: The Chiltern Hundreds
Character: Lord Lister
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
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The Forbidden Street
Title: The Forbidden Street
Character: Mr. Bly
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
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William Comes to Town
Title: William Comes to Town
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
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Just William's Luck
Title: Just William's Luck
Character: The Tramp
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Title: The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Character: General Bristow
Released: October 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
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Piccadilly Incident
Title: Piccadilly Incident
Character: Charles Peterson
Released: August 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
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Love Story
Title: Love Story
Character: Pit Smith
Released: November 20, 1944
Type: Movie
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
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They Came to a City
Title: They Came to a City
Character: Sir George Gedney
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
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The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Colonel Walmsley
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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Escape to Danger
Title: Escape to Danger
Character: Sir Thomas Leighton
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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The Man in Grey
Title: The Man in Grey
Character: Auctioneer (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Title: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: President of Tribunal
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Mr. Kirby
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Earl of Meadowbrook
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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This England
Title: This England
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Arthur Royd
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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Men Are Not Gods
Title: Men Are Not Gods
Character: Frederick Skeates
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington