Leonard Sharp

Leonard Sharp

Born: May 24, 1890
Died: October 24, 1958
in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Movies for Leonard Sharp...

Three Crooked Men
Title: Three Crooked Men
Character: Joe
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
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Violent Playground
Title: Violent Playground
Character: Spectator at Fire (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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Night of the Demon
Title: Night of the Demon
Released: November 9, 1957
Type: Movie
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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At the Stroke of Nine
Title: At the Stroke of Nine
Character: News Vendor
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
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The Silken Affair
Title: The Silken Affair
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: October 2, 1956
Type: Movie
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
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Satellite in the Sky
Title: Satellite in the Sky
Character: Thomas the Watchman (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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The Ladykillers
Title: The Ladykillers
Character: Pavement Artist (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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Adventure in the Hopfields
Title: Adventure in the Hopfields
Character: China Mender
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: uncredited
Released: September 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
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Murder at 3am
Title: Murder at 3am
Character: Old Skip
Released: July 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Mullins (as Len Sharp)
Released: July 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Old Joe / Crossing Sweeper
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Beggar (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Mitch
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Stage Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Carter (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Character: uncredited
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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The Hangman Waits
Title: The Hangman Waits
Character: Joe
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.
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Waterloo Road
Title: Waterloo Road
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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The Dummy Talks
Title: The Dummy Talks
Released: October 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Bus Conductor (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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Warn That Man
Title: Warn That Man
Character: Miles
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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Death by Design
Title: Death by Design
Character: Bob Joyce
Released: January 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Baker
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Bertha
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Title: Sheepdog of the Hills
Character: Geordie Scott
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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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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Gasbags
Title: Gasbags
Character: Chip Shop Customer
Released: February 1, 1941
Type: Movie
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
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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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Title: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Character: Buller's Assistant
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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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Card Player at Billiard Halls (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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Convict 99
Title: Convict 99
Character: Convict
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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Bank Holiday
Title: Bank Holiday
Character: Jack
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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Doctor Syn
Title: Doctor Syn
Character: Revenue Man (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Mr. Peabody
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Crew Member
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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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Burgher at Auction (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.