Howard Marion-Crawford

Howard Marion-Crawford

Born: January 17, 1914
Died: November 24, 1969
in London, England, UK

Movies for Howard Marion-Crawford...

The Castle of Fu Manchu
Title: The Castle of Fu Manchu
Character: Dr. Petrie
Released: May 29, 1969
Type: Movie
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The English children are on holiday in the Tyrolean alps and are having a great time when one of them breaks his leg. The rest of the children get him to a mountain hut but then the avalanche strikes.
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The Blood of Fu Manchu
Title: The Blood of Fu Manchu
Character: Dr. Petrie
Released: August 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
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Smashing Time
Title: Smashing Time
Character: Hall Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
Title: The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
Character: Dr. Petrie
Released: May 25, 1967
Type: Movie
In his remote China hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard.
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The Brides of Fu Manchu
Title: The Brides of Fu Manchu
Character: Dr. Petrie
Released: December 16, 1966
Type: Movie
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
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The Living Flame
Title: The Living Flame
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, commissioned for its 50th anniversary.
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Title: The Face of Fu Manchu
Character: Dr. Petrie
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
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Man in the Middle
Title: Man in the Middle
Released: January 27, 1964
Type: Movie
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
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Tamahine
Title: Tamahine
Character: Major Spruce (as Howard Marion Crawford)
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Medical Officer
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Portmore
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Glider Doctor (uncredited)
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 Avengers
Character: Collins
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Geoffrey
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: Danger Man
Character: Gregori
Released: September 11, 1960
Type: TV
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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Foxhole in Cairo
Title: Foxhole in Cairo
Character: British Major
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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North West Frontier
Title: North West Frontier
Released: October 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Peters
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Reg Couts
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Virgin Island
Title: Virgin Island
Character: Prescott
Released: August 7, 1959
Type: Movie
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
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Model for Murder
Title: Model for Murder
Character: Inspector Duncan
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.
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Life in Danger
Title: Life in Danger
Character: Major Donald Peters
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
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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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Next to No Time
Title: Next to No Time
Character: Hobbs
Released: August 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: The Chief
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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The Silent Enemy
Title: The Silent Enemy
Character: Wing Commander
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
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The Birthday Present
Title: The Birthday Present
Character: George Bates
Released: October 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Title: Ill Met by Moonlight
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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The Man in the Sky
Title: The Man in the Sky
Character: Ingrams
Released: January 24, 1957
Type: Movie
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
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Title: Wire Service
Character: McKenna
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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The Silken Affair
Title: The Silken Affair
Character: Baggott
Released: October 2, 1956
Type: Movie
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Character: 'Woody' Woodhall
Released: July 5, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Dr. Watson
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: TV
The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade. Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series' associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one of the first women to attain a senior production role in a television series.
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Five Days
Title: Five Days
Character: McGowan (as Howard Marion Crawford)
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
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West of Zanzibar
Title: West of Zanzibar
Character: Wood
Released: March 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
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Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Title: Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Released: February 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.
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Elizabethan Express
Title: Elizabethan Express
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.
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Don't Blame the Stork
Title: Don't Blame the Stork
Character: Fluffy Faversham
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
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Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder
Title: Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder
Character: Horatio Plunkett
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
lation of 3 stories, "The Missing Passenger", "Falstaff's Fur Coat" and "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas.
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Where's Charley?
Title: Where's Charley?
Character: Sir Francis Chesney
Released: May 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: Tea Shop Proprietor
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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Journey to the Sea
Title: Journey to the Sea
Character: Bill (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1952
Type: Movie
This is the story of a lorry's solitary journey with a new propeller for a trawler laid up in a port on the rugged sea-coast of Wales. For the lorry-driver and his mate it is all in a day's work; minor mishaps are overcome on the journey from Preston through the beautiful Welsh countryside. The story ends with the trawler on its way to sea.
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Plan for Coal
Title: Plan for Coal
Released: January 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".
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Mr. Drake's Duck
Title: Mr. Drake's Duck
Character: Maj. Travers
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
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The Man in the White Suit
Title: The Man in the White Suit
Character: Cranford
Released: August 7, 1951
Type: Movie
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: 1st Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Scrapbook for 1933
Title: Scrapbook for 1933
Character: (voice)
Released: February 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.
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The Hasty Heart
Title: The Hasty Heart
Character: Tommy
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: 1st Paratrooper
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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The Phantom Shot
Title: The Phantom Shot
Character: Sgt. Clapper
Released: September 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Kummer
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Night Train to Munich
Title: Night Train to Munich
Character: Checkpoint Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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The Spy in Black
Title: The Spy in Black
Character: German Officer in Kieler Hof Hotel
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Karl (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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The Guv'nor
Title: The Guv'nor
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Brown on Resolution
Title: Brown on Resolution
Character: Max
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?