Dennis Wyndham

Dennis Wyndham

Born: January 15, 1887
Died: August 19, 1973
in Natal, South Africa
Dennis Wyndham (15 January 1887 – 19 August 1973) was a South African film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1920 and 1956. He was born in Natal, South Africa.

On 23 May 1917 he married the actress Elsie Mackay and she performed as Poppy Wyndham throughout most of her stage and film career.

Movies for Dennis Wyndham...

The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: Outlaw
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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They Got What They Wanted
Title: They Got What They Wanted
Character: Matty McGrath
Released: March 30, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Dog and the Diamonds
Title: The Dog and the Diamonds
Character: Fred
Released: November 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Fernando Barrio
Released: November 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Man In Street Who Punches Oliver (Uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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I Didn't Do It
Title: I Didn't Do It
Character: Tom Driscoll
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! Whilst staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, with the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Daring Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.
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Bell-Bottom George
Title: Bell-Bottom George
Character: Black
Released: February 7, 1944
Type: Movie
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: George the Barman (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Title: Sheepdog of the Hills
Character: Riggy Teasdale
Released: December 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Commissionaire
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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This England
Title: This England
Character: Martin
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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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Jim - Larry's Assistant
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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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Title: Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Character: Jem
Released: June 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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Sailors Don't Care
Title: Sailors Don't Care
Character: Captain Raleigh
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
Character: Terry
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Title: Old Mother Riley in Society
Character: Tug Mulligan
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Commissionaire
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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Old Mother Riley, MP
Title: Old Mother Riley, MP
Character: Emperor of Rocavia
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
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Convict 99
Title: Convict 99
Character: Head Warder
Released: September 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
Title: Oh, Mr. Porter!
Character: Grogan/One Eyed Joe
Released: October 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Spurge
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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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Maryatt
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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Lonely Road
Title: Lonely Road
Character: The Satellite
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
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Midshipman Easy
Title: Midshipman Easy
Character: Don Silvio
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Anne One Hundred
Title: Anne One Hundred
Character: March
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open.[
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: Lafonde
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
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Who Killed Doc Robin?
Title: Who Killed Doc Robin?
Character: Pat O'Callaghan
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino
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Gipsy Blood
Title: Gipsy Blood
Character: Doncairo
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
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The Man They Couldn't Arrest
Title: The Man They Couldn't Arrest
Character: Shaughnessy
Released: July 24, 1931
Type: Movie
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
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Let's Love and Laugh
Title: Let's Love and Laugh
Character: Bride's Fiancé
Released: May 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.
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Lily of Killarney
Title: Lily of Killarney
Released: March 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.
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Juno and the Paycock
Title: Juno and the Paycock
Character: The Mobiliser
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Murphy
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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Without the Option
Title: Without the Option
Released: July 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Follow Waffles the dog, as he enters quarantine, after arriving in England on the Queen Mary with his owner.
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The Eleventh Hour
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Jeff Ironside
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A colonel's daughter marries a farmer in name only, but returns to him when her lover threatens suicide.