Jack Melford

Jack Melford

Born: September 5, 1899
Died: October 22, 1972
in London, England, UK

Movies for Jack Melford...

Lust for a Vampire
Title: Lust for a Vampire
Character: Bishop
Released: January 17, 1971
Type: Movie
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Title: Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Character: Menelaus
Released: November 6, 1965
Type: Movie
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
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Three Clear Sundays
Title: Three Clear Sundays
Character: Judge
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: The Psycho-Analyst
Released: June 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Sir Owen Tudor
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Follow That Man
Title: Follow That Man
Character: Lars Toren
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.
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The Gentle Terror
Title: The Gentle Terror
Character: Inspector Miles
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.
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Compelled
Title: Compelled
Character: Grimes
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.
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Feet of Clay
Title: Feet of Clay
Character: Soames
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), who refuses to explain his involvement in the murder of the revered Diana White (Angela Douglas), a probation officer seemingly devoted to her work. As he investigates, David learns that Diana's partners may not be as respectable as they appear and that Jimmy's girlfriend is in grave danger from them. [Netflix]
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The End of the Line
Title: The End of the Line
Character: Inspector Gates
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: Norrin
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Character: Court Official
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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The Ladykillers
Title: The Ladykillers
Character: Detective (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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Title: ITV Play of the Week
Character: Thomas Bevill
Released: September 27, 1955
Type: TV
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.
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Background
Title: Background
Character: Mackay
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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Title: Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School
Character: Mr Quelch
Released: February 19, 1952
Type: TV
Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard, getting six of the best from Mr Quelch, failing to turn up for cricket, scuffling with the local vagrant and even being threatened with expulsion.
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Warning to Wantons
Title: Warning to Wantons
Character: Maurice Lugard
Released: January 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Dr. Martock
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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When You Come Home
Title: When You Come Home
Character: Dr. Dormer Franklyn
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.
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The October Man
Title: The October Man
Character: Wilcox
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: Lord Barrymore
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical set during the French Revolution.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Defence Lawyer at Court Martial (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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Theatre Royal
Title: Theatre Royal
Character: Himself
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Dame
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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The Briggs Family
Title: The Briggs Family
Character: Jerry Tulse
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Desert Bus Tour Guide (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Lt. Terry, pilot
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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Hold My Hand
Title: Hold My Hand
Character: Pop Currie
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?
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Let's Make a Night of It
Title: Let's Make a Night of It
Character: Count Castelli
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: The Journalist
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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When Thief Meets Thief
Title: When Thief Meets Thief
Character: Thompson
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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Radio Lover
Title: Radio Lover
Character: Reggie Clifford
Released: October 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune.
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Birds of a Feather
Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Rudolph
Released: April 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: Bob Burge Goodman
Released: October 6, 1935
Type: Movie
The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Journalist
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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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: Raymond Dirk
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
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Night of the Garter
Title: Night of the Garter
Character: Kenneth Warwick
Released: September 18, 1933
Type: Movie
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Sport of Kings
Title: The Sport of Kings
Character: Sir Reginald Toothill
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.