Derrick De Marney

Derrick De Marney

Born: September 21, 1906
Died: February 18, 1978
in London, England, UK
Derrick De Marney was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a producer. He is probably best known for his starring role as a man wrongly accused of murder in the 1937 Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent.

Movies for Derrick De Marney...

The Projected Man
Title: The Projected Man
Character: Latham
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Pat
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: Captain Marlow
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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Meet Mr. Callaghan
Title: Meet Mr. Callaghan
Character: Slim Callaghan
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
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She Shall Have Murder
Title: She Shall Have Murder
Character: Dagobert Brown
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Title: Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character: George Grant
Released: October 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Uncle Silas
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Frenzy
Title: Frenzy
Character: Charles Garrie
Released: February 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
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The First of the Few
Title: The First of the Few
Character: Squadron Leader Jefferson
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Mike Carroll
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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This Is Poland
Title: This Is Poland
Character: Narrator
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In the film, used the chronicles of war, fragments preserved in London prewar Polish films (landscape, architecture, industry), Allied supplies from Narvik, chronicles from France and material participation of Polish troops in the Battle of Britain. The film consists of two parts. The first part presents the image of Polish pre-war - an idyllic landscape, folklore, rich culture, growing industry. Part two represents the Nazi aggression, the heroic Polish soldier fighting on different fronts.
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Captain John Mellish
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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The Second Mr. Bush
Title: The Second Mr. Bush
Character: Tony
Released: April 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
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The Lion Has Wings
Title: The Lion Has Wings
Character: Bill - Navigator
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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Flying Fifty-Five
Title: Flying Fifty-Five
Character: Bill Urquhart
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Michael Ashburn
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Young and Innocent
Title: Young and Innocent
Character: Robert Tisdall
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Younger Diraeli
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Land Without Music
Title: Land Without Music
Character: Rudolpho Strozzi
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
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Cafe Mascot
Title: Cafe Mascot
Character: Jerry Wilson
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man discovers £1,000 in a taxi. The kindly man gives it to an impoverished Irish girl (Geraldine Fitzgerald) by investing it in her cafe, The Cafe Mascot.
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Things to Come
Title: Things to Come
Character: Richard Gordon
Released: March 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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The Immortal Gentleman
Title: The Immortal Gentleman
Character: James Carter / Tybalt
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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Once in a New Moon
Title: Once in a New Moon
Character: Bryan Grant
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
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Music Hall
Title: Music Hall
Character: Jim
Released: June 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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Stranglehold
Title: Stranglehold
Character: Phillip
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Peter
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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The Valley of Ghosts
Title: The Valley of Ghosts
Character: Arthur Wilmot
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Adventurous Youth
Title: Adventurous Youth
Character: The Englishman
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction