Edward Chapman

Edward Chapman

Born: October 13, 1901
Died: August 9, 1977
in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Edward Chapman (13 October 1901 - 9 August 1977) was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.

Chapman was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. On leaving school he became a bank clerk but later began his stage career with Ben Greet's Company in June 1924 at the Repertory Theatre, Nottingham, playing Gecko in George du Maurier's Trilby. He made his first London stage appearance at the Court Theatre in August 1925 playing the Rev Septimus Tudor in The Farmer's Wife. Among dozens of stage roles that followed, he played Bonaparte to Margaret Rawlings's Josephine in Napoleon at the Embassy Theatre in September 1934. In 1928 he attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, who gave him the role of "The Paycock" in the 1930 film, Juno and the Paycock. In the same year he also made an appearance in Caste (of which no prints are known to exist). He had a role in The Citadel in 1938 and appeared alongside George Formby in the Ealing Studios comedy Turned Out Nice Again in 1941.

During the Second World War he took a break from acting and joined the Royal Air Force. After training he was posted to 129 (Mysore) Squadron as an intelligence officer. This Spitfire squadron was based at Westhampnett and Debden. The squadron was heavily engaged in combat during this period and many of Chapman's fellow squadron mates were killed in action.

Chapman first starred alongside Wisdom in 1957's Just My Luck in the role of Mr. Stoneway, but the next year in The Square Peg he appeared as Mr. Grimsdale for the first time opposite Wisdom's character of Norman Pitkin. In 1960 he and Wisdom acted together again in The Bulldog Breed, playing the roles of Mr. Philpots and Norman Puckle - Mr. Grimsdale and Pitkin in all but name. Wisdom appeared alone as Norman Pitkin in On the Beat in 1962, while Chapman branched out, starring in the Danish folktale Venus fra Vestø, but Grimsdale and Pitkin were reunited for 1963's A Stitch in Time. Their final performance together was in The Early Bird in 1965, Wisdom's first film in colour. In all, he appeared alongside Norman Wisdom in five films.

After Sir John Gielgud was arrested for "persistently importuning male persons for immoral purposes", Chapman started a petition to force him to resign from Equity. Sir Laurence Olivier reportedly threw Chapman out of his dressing room when he solicited his signature for the petition.

From 1965 Chapman played mostly characters roles on television. His final role was as Mr. Callon for nine episodes of the BBC's seafaring melodrama The Onedin Line between 1971 and 1972. Chapman died of a heart attack in Brighton, East Sussex, England at the age of 75.

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Title: The Onedin Line
Character: Mr. Callon
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: TV
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
Title: The Man Who Haunted Himself
Character: Barton
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
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Title: Champion House
Released: May 28, 1967
Type: TV
The Yorkshire-based Champion family and the dramas surrounding the family textiles firm, Champion Mills.
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The Early Bird
Title: The Early Bird
Character: Mr. Thomas Grimsdale
Released: November 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
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Title: The Man In Room 17
Character: Oliver Crawford
Released: June 11, 1965
Type: TV
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
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Joey Boy
Title: Joey Boy
Character: Tom Hobson
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
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Hide and Seek
Title: Hide and Seek
Character: McPherson
Released: June 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
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A Stitch in Time
Title: A Stitch in Time
Character: Mr Grimsdale
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
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Venus fra Vestø
Title: Venus fra Vestø
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Vestø island's isolated community's prize cow is in danger of being abducted by German WWII occupation forces.
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The Bulldog Breed
Title: The Bulldog Breed
Character: Mr. Philpots
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Oscar Wilde
Title: Oscar Wilde
Character: Marquis of Queensberry
Released: May 29, 1960
Type: Movie
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
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School for Scoundrels
Title: School for Scoundrels
Character: Gloatbridge
Released: March 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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The Square Peg
Title: The Square Peg
Character: Mr Grimsdale
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
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Innocent Sinners
Title: Innocent Sinners
Character: Manley
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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The Young and the Guilty
Title: The Young and the Guilty
Character: George Connor
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: Mr. Stoneway
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?
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Doctor at Large
Title: Doctor at Large
Character: Wilkins
Released: March 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
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X the Unknown
Title: X the Unknown
Character: John Elliott
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
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Lisbon
Title: Lisbon
Character: Edgar Selwyn
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.
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Bhowani Junction
Title: Bhowani Junction
Character: Thomas Jones
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
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The Love Match
Title: The Love Match
Character: Mr Longworth
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.
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A Yank in Ermine
Title: A Yank in Ermine
Character: Duke of Fontenham
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsure if he is prepared to make the sacrifice he takes a trip with his two best friends to try our his new title, but will he be able to cope with the British aristocracy?
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The Crowded Day
Title: The Crowded Day
Character: Mr. Bunting
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Character: Works Manager
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
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A Day to Remember
Title: A Day to Remember
Character: Mr. Robinson
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Lowden
Released: October 18, 1953
Type: Movie
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
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Folly to Be Wise
Title: Folly to Be Wise
Character: Joseph Byres M.P.
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: Stranger
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Ackland
Released: July 29, 1952
Type: Movie
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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The Card
Title: The Card
Character: Mr. Duncalf
Released: February 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: The Admiral
Released: January 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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The Cocktail Party
Title: The Cocktail Party
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Father in Family Group
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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Gone to Earth
Title: Gone to Earth
Character: Mr. James
Released: November 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Hoskins (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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The Spider and the Fly
Title: The Spider and the Fly
Character: Minister for War
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Chief Inspector Mitchell
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 History of Mr. Polly
Title: The History of Mr. Polly
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Birkland
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Title: It Always Rains on Sunday
Character: George Sandigate
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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The October Man
Title: The October Man
Character: Mr. Peachy
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: Papadopoulos
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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Jeannie
Title: Jeannie
Character: Mr. Jansen
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
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Turned Out Nice Again
Title: Turned Out Nice Again
Character: Uncle Arnold
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Mr. Blenkinsop
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Eating Out with Tommy Trinder
Title: Eating Out with Tommy Trinder
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Captain Eckersley
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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The Briggs Family
Title: The Briggs Family
Character: Charley Briggs
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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Law and Disorder
Title: Law and Disorder
Character: Detective Inspector Bray
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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The Proud Valley
Title: The Proud Valley
Character: Dick Parry
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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Now You're Talking
Title: Now You're Talking
Character: Alf Small
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Title: Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Character: Captain Edwin Fraser
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Len Griffin
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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There Ain't No Justice
Title: There Ain't No Justice
Character: Sammy Sanders
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: B.J. Burrell
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Title: The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
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Marigold
Title: Marigold
Character: Mordan
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Joe Morgan
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Who Killed John Savage?
Title: Who Killed John Savage?
Character: Inspector Chortley
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Who Killed John Savage?
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Premiere
Title: Premiere
Character: Lohrmann
Released: January 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Fabrizius
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Someone at the Door
Title: Someone at the Door
Character: Price
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally will 'disappear', and he will be arrested for her murder! At his trial she will reappear, his acquittal will follow, and he will be able to supply his paper with an exclusive story. Sally and her fiance, Bill, fall in with the scheme. However, there are complications which they had not foreseen.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Title: The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Character: Major Grigsby
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
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Things to Come
Title: Things to Come
Character: Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
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 Divine Spark
Title: The Divine Spark
Character: Saverio Mercadante
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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The Church Mouse
Title: The Church Mouse
Character: Mr. 'Pinky' Wormwood
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
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Girls Will Be Boys
Title: Girls Will Be Boys
Character: Grey
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
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The Queen's Affair
Title: The Queen's Affair
Character: Guard
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Blossom Time
Title: Blossom Time
Character: Meyerhoffer
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
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Mister Cinders
Title: Mister Cinders
Character: Mr. Gaunt
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Colonel
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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The Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Sedeman
Released: July 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
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Tilly of Bloomsbury
Title: Tilly of Bloomsbury
Character: Percy Welwyn
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
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The Skin Game
Title: The Skin Game
Character: Dawker
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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Caste
Title: Caste
Character: Sam Gerridge
Released: September 1, 1930
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.
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Murder!
Title: Murder!
Character: Ted Markham
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Juno and the Paycock
Title: Juno and the Paycock
Character: Captain Boyle
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.