Dennis Hoey

Dennis Hoey

Born: March 29, 1893
Died: July 25, 1960
in London, England, UK

Movies for Dennis Hoey...

Plymouth Adventure
Title: Plymouth Adventure
Character: Head Constable
Released: November 28, 1952
Type: Movie
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.
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Title: Omnibus
Character: Arthur Conan Doyle (segment "The Fine Art of Murder")
Released: November 9, 1952
Type: TV
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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Caribbean
Title: Caribbean
Character: Burford
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
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David and Bathsheba
Title: David and Bathsheba
Character: Joab
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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The Kid from Texas
Title: The Kid from Texas
Character: Major Harper
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: Mr. Pitcher
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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Bad Men of Tombstone
Title: Bad Men of Tombstone
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: January 21, 1949
Type: Movie
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
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Wake of the Red Witch
Title: Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Capt. Munsey
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Sir William Glasdale
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Ruthless
Title: Ruthless
Character: Mr. Burnside
Released: April 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Tiny Wilson
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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Where There's Life
Title: Where There's Life
Character: Minister of War Grubitch
Released: November 21, 1947
Type: Movie
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Williams 'Bill', Matilda's Butler
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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Golden Earrings
Title: Golden Earrings
Character: Hoff
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Roger Elwood
Released: July 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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The Crimson Key
Title: The Crimson Key
Character: Steven Loring
Released: July 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
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The Strange Woman
Title: The Strange Woman
Character: Tim Hager
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In early 19th century New England, an attractive unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to deceive and control the men around her.
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Roll on Texas Moon
Title: Roll on Texas Moon
Character: Cole Gregory
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.
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Anna and the King of Siam
Title: Anna and the King of Siam
Character: Sir Edward
Released: August 11, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
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She-Wolf of London
Title: She-Wolf of London
Character: Inspector Pierce
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Title: Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Character: Commissioner
Released: February 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Jonathan Selby
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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A Thousand and One Nights
Title: A Thousand and One Nights
Character: Sultan Kamar Al-Kir / Prince Hadji
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: March 16, 1945
Type: Movie
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
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National Velvet
Title: National Velvet
Character: Mr. Greenford
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Title: The Keys of the Kingdom
Character: Alec Chisholm (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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The Pearl of Death
Title: The Pearl of Death
Character: Inspector Lestrade
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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Uncertain Glory
Title: Uncertain Glory
Character: Father Le Clerc
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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The Spider Woman
Title: The Spider Woman
Character: Insp. Lestrade
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Title: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Bomber's Moon
Title: Bomber's Moon
Character: Gestapo Col. von Grunow
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
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They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: Col. Taeger
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Title: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Character: Inspector Owen (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Parsons
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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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Title: Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character: Lord Tarrant
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Duffield, Ministry of Information
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Intelligence Officer
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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A Criminal at Large
Title: A Criminal at Large
Character: C.I. Tanner
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
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Black Roses
Title: Black Roses
Character: Nikander
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?
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Uncivilised
Title: Uncivilised
Character: Mara the White Chief
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Title: Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Character: Gambling Winner
Released: August 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: M. Daumery
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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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Title: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Character: Tom Goodschild
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
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The Immortal Gentleman
Title: The Immortal Gentleman
Character: Soldier / Toby Belch
Released: March 26, 1935
Type: Movie
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: Mario
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
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I Spy
Title: I Spy
Character: MNT
Released: August 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
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My Old Duchess
Title: My Old Duchess
Character: Montagu Neilson
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
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Chu Chin Chow
Title: Chu Chin Chow
Character: Rakham, chief henchman
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
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The Wandering Jew
Title: The Wandering Jew
Character: Lord de Beaudricourt (Phase II)
Released: November 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Maid Happy
Title: Maid Happy
Character: Sir Rudolph Bartlett
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Facing The Music
Title: Facing The Music
Character: Capradossi
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
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Baroud
Title: Baroud
Character: Captain Sabry
Released: September 28, 1932
Type: Movie
English-language version of Baroud, sometimes referred to as Love in Morocco. 'A sergeant in the Foreign Legion falls in love with Zinah, the daughter of a Berber chief.' (British Film Institute)
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The Maid of the Mountains
Title: The Maid of the Mountains
Character: Orsino
Released: March 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
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Life Goes On
Title: Life Goes On
Character: Anthony Carlisle
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Cyrus Watt
Released: August 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
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Never Trouble Trouble
Title: Never Trouble Trouble
Character: Stranger
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
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Tell England
Title: Tell England
Character: The Chaplain, called "Padre"
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: Jimmy Donovan
Released: October 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Tiptoes
Title: Tiptoes
Character: Hotelier
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical