John Blythe

John Blythe

Born: October 31, 1921
Died: November 24, 1993
in London, England, UK

Movies for John Blythe...

Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Rose
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Title: The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Character: Kamiwashi
Released: February 17, 1981
Type: Movie
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
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Title: The Good Companions
Character: Joe Brundit
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: TV
Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on the ragged edges of show business. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.
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The Ups and Downs of a Handyman
Title: The Ups and Downs of a Handyman
Character: Father Elgin
Released: October 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.
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Keep It Up Downstairs
Title: Keep It Up Downstairs
Character: Francis Dureneck
Released: July 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the masters and the servants are prepared to co-operate in trying to find some cash - after all, most of them are enjoying liaisons of one kind or another among themselves, and none have any desire to give up their rewarding way of life...
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Love Among the Ruins
Title: Love Among the Ruins
Character: Tipstall
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Frank Tyler
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Three Clear Sundays
Title: Three Clear Sundays
Character: Jimmy the Gent
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 Tap on the Shoulder
Title: A Tap on the Shoulder
Character: Security guard
Released: January 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
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A Stitch in Time
Title: A Stitch in Time
Character: Dale, Press Photographer.
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
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Gaolbreak
Title: Gaolbreak
Character: Slim
Released: April 2, 1962
Type: Movie
An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.
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The Devil's Daffodil
Title: The Devil's Daffodil
Released: July 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Haystack Club Barman (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
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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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Doublecross
Title: Doublecross
Character: Fred Trewin
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
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The Gay Dog
Title: The Gay Dog
Character: Peter Nightingale
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
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Meet Mr. Malcolm
Title: Meet Mr. Malcolm
Character: Carrington-Phelps
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home -- and when his body is found, the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim?
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Three Steps to the Gallows
Title: Three Steps to the Gallows
Character: Dave Leary
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
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It's a Grand Life
Title: It's a Grand Life
Character: Pvt. Philip Green
Released: November 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.
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The Frightened Man
Title: The Frightened Man
Character: Maxie Brown
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
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Worm's Eye View
Title: Worm's Eye View
Character: Duke
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.
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Lilli Marlene
Title: Lilli Marlene
Character: Holt
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Bossy Phillips
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Diamond City
Title: Diamond City
Character: Izzy Cohen
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Character: Frankie Martin
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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The Huggetts Abroad
Title: The Huggetts Abroad
Character: Gowan
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Gowan
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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It’s a Wonderful Day
Title: It’s a Wonderful Day
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A dance band takes a holiday in Devon, and discovers some talent amongst the locals.
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Tony Gowan
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Johnnie
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Art Moody
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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River Patrol
Title: River Patrol
Character: Robby
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: 2nd Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Holiday Camp
Title: Holiday Camp
Character: Steve
Released: August 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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Dear Murderer
Title: Dear Murderer
Character: Ernie
Released: June 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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This Happy Breed
Title: This Happy Breed
Character: Reg Gibbons
Released: May 28, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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Bon Voyage
Title: Bon Voyage
Character: John Dougall
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.