Leo Genn

Leo Genn

Born: August 9, 1905
Died: January 26, 1978
in London, England, UK
Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Signified by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television, and radio; often playing aristocratic or gentlemanly, sophisticate roles.

Born to a Jewish family in London, Genn was educated as a lawyer and was a practicing barrister until after World War II, in which he served in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He began his acting career at The Old Vic and made his film debut in 1935, starring in a total of 85 screen roles until his death in 1978. For his portrayal of Petronius in the 1951 Hollywood epic Quo Vadis, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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You Are Free, Dr. Korczak
Title: You Are Free, Dr. Korczak
Character: Dr. Janusz Korczak
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
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Frightmare
Title: Frightmare
Character: Dr. Lytell
Released: November 5, 1974
Type: Movie
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.
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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: Rollins (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: Chief of M.I.5
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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Endless Night
Title: Endless Night
Character: Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Sir Hugo Chalmers
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Die Screaming Marianne
Title: Die Screaming Marianne
Character: The Judge
Released: August 13, 1971
Type: Movie
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing, even murder, to get what they want.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: Edmond Brighton
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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Connecting Rooms
Title: Connecting Rooms
Character: Dr. Norman
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.
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The Bloody Judge
Title: The Bloody Judge
Character: Lord Wessex
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes 'traitors', who sympathize with the King's opponent William of Orange, as well as 'witches', who are accused of being in league with the devil...
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Title: The Expert
Character: Dr. Bellman
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dr. Lanyon
Released: January 7, 1968
Type: Movie
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
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Khartoum
Title: Khartoum
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 9, 1966
Type: Movie
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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Circus of Fear
Title: Circus of Fear
Character: Elliott
Released: April 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
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Ten Little Indians
Title: Ten Little Indians
Character: General Mandrake
Released: July 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Title: The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Character: Adm. Quency
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
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The Delhi Way
Title: The Delhi Way
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A documentary about Delhi.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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55 Days at Peking
Title: 55 Days at Peking
Character: Gen. Jung-Lu
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker Jr.
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Gavin Heath
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Dr. Morton Chaney
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Life of Adolf Hitler
Title: Life of Adolf Hitler
Character: Narrator
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documentary offers a sharply critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it's racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.
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Too Hot to Handle
Title: Too Hot to Handle
Character: Johnny Solo
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: Michael Pemberton
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Clem Miniver
Released: January 7, 1960
Type: Movie
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.
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Tank Force!
Title: Tank Force!
Character: Sgt. Kendall
Released: April 22, 1958
Type: Movie
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: Maj. Picquart
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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The Steel Bayonet
Title: The Steel Bayonet
Character: Maj. Gerrard
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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The Immortal Land
Title: The Immortal Land
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
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Beyond Mombasa
Title: Beyond Mombasa
Character: Ralph Hoyt
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Starbuck
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Sir Clifford Chatterley
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Lionel Kendall
Released: July 19, 1955
Type: Movie
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
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The Green Scarf
Title: The Green Scarf
Character: Rodelec
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
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Personal Affair
Title: Personal Affair
Character: Stephen Barlow
Released: October 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
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The Red Beret
Title: The Red Beret
Character: Major J. Snow
Released: August 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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Elizabeth Is Queen
Title: Elizabeth Is Queen
Character: Narrator
Released: June 2, 1953
Type: Movie
This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.
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The Girls of Pleasure Island
Title: The Girls of Pleasure Island
Character: Roger Halyard
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
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Plymouth Adventure
Title: Plymouth Adventure
Character: William Bradford
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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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Title: 24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Character: Robert Sterling
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Maida Vale Doctor
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Archbishop of Rheims
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Petronius
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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The Undefeated
Title: The Undefeated
Character: Joe Anderson (voice)
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
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The Miniver Story
Title: The Miniver Story
Character: Steve Brunswick
Released: October 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
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The Wooden Horse
Title: The Wooden Horse
Character: Peter Howard
Released: October 16, 1950
Type: Movie
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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I Went Back
Title: I Went Back
Character: Narrator
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: William Parry
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
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The Snake Pit
Title: The Snake Pit
Character: Doctor Mark H. Van Kensdelaerik (Dr. "Kik")
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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The Velvet Touch
Title: The Velvet Touch
Character: Michael Morrell
Released: July 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Adam Brant
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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Green for Danger
Title: Green for Danger
Character: Mr. Eden
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Theirs Is the Glory
Title: Theirs Is the Glory
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Bel Affris
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
Title: Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
Character: Marcus Antonius
Released: December 3, 1945
Type: Movie
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: The Constable of France
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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The Return of the Vikings
Title: The Return of the Vikings
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
British war documentary
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Attack: The Battle for New Britain
Title: Attack: The Battle for New Britain
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 20, 1944
Type: Movie
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943. - Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller
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The Way Ahead
Title: The Way Ahead
Character: Captain Edwards
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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Tunisian Victory
Title: Tunisian Victory
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
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The Bells Go Down
Title: The Bells Go Down
Character: Off-Screen Narrator (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Danton (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
Character: Lanson
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: First Brother Grimm
Released: May 11, 1940
Type: Movie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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French Communique
Title: French Communique
Character: Commentator
Released: January 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Prince (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: Dr. Gurdon
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?
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Defending Counsel
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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When Thief Meets Thief
Title: When Thief Meets Thief
Character: Prosecuting Counsel
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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Accused
Title: Accused
Character: Man
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
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The Dream Doctor
Title: The Dream Doctor
Character: Husband
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman