Miles Mander

Miles Mander

Born: May 14, 1888
Died: February 8, 1946
in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Miles Mander (May 14, 1888 – February 8, 1946), born Lionel Henry Mander (and sometimes credited as Luther Miles), was a well-known and versatile English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist.

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The Imperfect Lady
Title: The Imperfect Lady
Character: Mr. Rogan
Released: November 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Character: Dr. Marko
Released: June 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Character: Lord Warrick
Released: February 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Mr. Brigstock
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: British Secretary
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
Title: The Crime Doctor's Warning
Character: Frederick Malone
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Chief Inspector W.R. Allison
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Title: Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Character: Over the Shoulder Reader
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Sir Robert Bentley
Released: March 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.
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Murder, My Sweet
Title: Murder, My Sweet
Character: Leuwen Grayle
Released: December 14, 1944
Type: Movie
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Enter Arsène Lupin
Title: Enter Arsène Lupin
Character: Charles Seagrave
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
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The Pearl of Death
Title: The Pearl of Death
Character: Giles Conover
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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The Scarlet Claw
Title: The Scarlet Claw
Character: Judge Brisson
Released: May 18, 1944
Type: Movie
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Title: The White Cliffs of Dover
Character: Major Loring (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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The Return of the Vampire
Title: The Return of the Vampire
Character: Sir Frederick Fleet
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Weatherby (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
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Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of the Opera
Character: Pleyel
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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Five Graves to Cairo
Title: Five Graves to Cairo
Character: Colonel Fitzhume (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
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Assignment in Brittany
Title: Assignment in Brittany
Character: Col. Herman Fournier
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Secrets of the Underground
Title: Secrets of the Underground
Character: Paul Panois
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Kilpatrick
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: James V. Thorne
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Somewhere I'll Find You
Title: Somewhere I'll Find You
Character: Floyd Kirsten
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Title: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Dr. Leonard V. Meecham
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: German Agent on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Major
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Title: Tarzan's New York Adventure
Character: Portmaster
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Dr. Kurt Immelman
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Major Cunningham
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Dr. Wilton
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Professor Langer
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Title: Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Character: Dr. Lockberg
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
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They Met in Bombay
Title: They Met in Bombay
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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That Hamilton Woman
Title: That Hamilton Woman
Character: Lord Keith
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Shadows on the Stairs
Title: Shadows on the Stairs
Character: Tom Armitage
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
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South of Suez
Title: South of Suez
Character: Roger Smythe
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Lieut. Strope
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Babies for Sale
Title: Babies for Sale
Character: Dr. Rankin
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Deacon Arnold Foster
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Sir Malcolm Drake (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Homer
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mr. Charles Pryor
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Attorney General (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: King Henry VI
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Sir John Gresham
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Aramis
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Horace Granville
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Lockwood
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
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The Little Princess
Title: The Little Princess
Character: Lord Wickham
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Fred Thomas
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Ebenezer Balfour
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Youth on Parole
Title: Youth on Parole
Character: The Sparkler
Released: October 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: James Stratton
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Corey
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Jukes
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: King Louis XIII
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Bert
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Death Drives Through
Title: Death Drives Through
Character: Garry Ames
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
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The Battle
Title: The Battle
Character: Feize
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
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Matinee Idol
Title: Matinee Idol
Character: Harley Travers
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Captain Auguste Lutte
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Wriothesley
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Loyalties
Title: Loyalties
Character: Capt. Ronald Dancy, DSO
Released: July 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
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That Night in London
Title: That Night in London
Character: Harry Tresham
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
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Lily Christine
Title: Lily Christine
Character: Ambatriadi
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
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The Missing Rembrandt
Title: The Missing Rembrandt
Character: Claude Holford
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
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Mary
Title: Mary
Character: Gordon Moore
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
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Murder!
Title: Murder!
Character: Gordon Druce
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Loose Ends
Title: Loose Ends
Character: Raymond Carteret
Released: May 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
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The Crooked Billet
Title: The Crooked Billet
Character: Guy Merrow
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Meineid
Title: Meineid
Character: Adolf Sperber
Released: April 26, 1929
Type: Movie
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The First Born
Title: The First Born
Character: Sir Hugo Boycott
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
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Balaclava
Title: Balaclava
Character: Capt. Gardner
Released: June 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
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The Joker
Title: The Joker
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Georg Jacoby’s Jokeren is a light-hearted entertainment picture set during the carnival in Nice, a romantic comedy with a touch of melodrama. A young artist, fatally injured in a car accident, foolishly entrusts a batch of compromising love letters to Borwick, a crooked and unscrupulous lawyer, instructing him to destroy them. Instead, Borwick proceeds to blackmail the woman who sent the letters, Lady Cecilie Powder, married to the straight-arrow Sir Herbert Powder. Lady Cecilie gets help from her spunky younger sister Gill. In turn, she draws in Peter Carstairs, a debonair adventurer known to all as “the Joker” – the card that trumps all others. When the Joker repeatedly foils Borwick’s schemes, the crooked lawyer ups the ante, trying to incriminate his adversary Carstairs and expanding his demands to include marriage to Gill. But as the characters converge at yet another lavish carnival celebration party, it becomes clear that one card does indeed trump all the others: the Joker!
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Parisiennes
Title: Parisiennes
Character: Armand de Marny
Released: January 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: Hon Gerald Pillick
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Tiptoes
Title: Tiptoes
Character: Rollo Stevens
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: Levett
Released: January 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.
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The Prude's Fall
Title: The Prude's Fall
Character: Sir Neville Moreton
Released: November 23, 1925
Type: Movie
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.