Oliver Johnston

Oliver Johnston

Born: April 29, 1888
Died: December 22, 1966
in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Movies for Oliver Johnston...

It!
Title: It!
Character: Curator Trimingham
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
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A Countess from Hong Kong
Title: A Countess from Hong Kong
Character: Mr. Milton Clark
Released: January 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
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Title: The Corridor People
Character: Samson Whitby
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: TV
The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd. A surreal black-and-white detective series, The Corridor People pitched security agent Kronk against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp over the course of four episodes.
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The Siege of Manchester
Title: The Siege of Manchester
Character: Thomas Prestwich
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
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Johnson Over Jordan
Title: Johnson Over Jordan
Character: The First Old Man
Released: February 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
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The Tomb of Ligeia
Title: The Tomb of Ligeia
Character: Kenrick
Released: November 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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Dr. Crippen
Title: Dr. Crippen
Character: Lord Chief Justice
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
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Island of Love
Title: Island of Love
Character: Prof. Krumwitz
Released: June 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
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The Fast Lady
Title: The Fast Lady
Character: Bulmer
Released: December 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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Backfire!
Title: Backfire!
Character: Bernard Curzon
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.
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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: Prof. Parkin
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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Francis of Assisi
Title: Francis of Assisi
Character: Father Livoni
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Mr. Campbell
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
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A Touch of Larceny
Title: A Touch of Larceny
Character: Minister
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Albert Prusty
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Nowhere to Go
Title: Nowhere to Go
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
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Son of Robin Hood
Title: Son of Robin Hood
Character: Apothecary
Released: November 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Finleigh
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
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A King in New York
Title: A King in New York
Character: Ambassador Jaume
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
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The Hypnotist
Title: The Hypnotist
Character: Dr. Kenyon
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
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Room in the House
Title: Room in the House
Character: Dr. Gordon
Released: July 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
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Dangerous Voyage
Title: Dangerous Voyage
Character: Dr. Waverley
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Intrigue and smuggling in the English Channel.
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Tale of Three Women
Title: Tale of Three Women
Character: Butler (segment "Wedding Gift")
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
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The Good Beginning
Title: The Good Beginning
Character: Owen
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
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Stolen Life
Title: Stolen Life
Character: Prof. Bardesley
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: Cunningham
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?