H.R. Hignett

H.R. Hignett

Movies for H.R. Hignett...

Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Lawson - Lady Forbes' Butler
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
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Spring in Park Lane
Title: Spring in Park Lane
Character: Higgins
Released: March 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy, is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly footman. Bored with the attentions of vain movie stars and eccentric minor nobility, she's captivated by his easy-going charm and ready to fall. But will his scandalous secret come between them and true happiness?
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Don Carlos' Butler (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1946
Type: Movie
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Parker
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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Tilly of Bloomsbury
Title: Tilly of Bloomsbury
Character: Lucius Welwyn
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Title: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Character: Gerald Guy
Released: May 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A girl's marriages to a cruel man, a squire, and a surgeon in Africa.