Frank Cellier

Frank Cellier

Born: February 23, 1884
Died: September 27, 1948
in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK
Frank Cellier (23 February 1884 – 27 September 1948) was an English actor. Early in his career, he toured in Britain, Germany, the West Indies, America and South Africa. In the 1920s, he became known in the West End for Shakespearean character roles, among others, and also directed some plays in which he acted. Later, during the 1930s and 1940s, he also appeared in films.

Beginning in the 1930s, Cellier played roles in films, including Sheriff Watson in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935). He was also Monsieur Barsac in the comedy film The Guv'nor (1935).

Cellier died in London in 1948 aged 64.

Movies for Frank Cellier...

Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sheriff (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Blind Goddess
Title: The Blind Goddess
Character: The Judge
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Manager
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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The Magic Bow
Title: The Magic Bow
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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Quiet Weekend
Title: Quiet Weekend
Character: Adrian Barrasford
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
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Give Us the Moon
Title: Give Us the Moon
Character: Pyke
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: Innsbach
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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The Big Blockade
Title: The Big Blockade
Character: Schneider
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: Gen. Scarappa
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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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: John Forest
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Sam Grundy
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: William Frederick Davenport Chaytor
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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The Midas Touch
Title: The Midas Touch
Character: Corris Morgan
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
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The Ware Case
Title: The Ware Case
Character: Skinner - the Jeweler
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: Lord Derby
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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A Royal Divorce
Title: A Royal Divorce
Character: Talleyrand
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: Sir Ralph Sapson
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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Non-Stop New York
Title: Non-Stop New York
Character: Sam Pryor
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: Sir Bernard Roper
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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O.H.M.S.
Title: O.H.M.S.
Character: Regimental Sergeant-Major Briggs
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
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Take My Tip
Title: Take My Tip
Character: Paradine
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
Title: The Man Who Changed His Mind
Character: Lord Haslewood
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
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Tudor Rose
Title: Tudor Rose
Character: Henry VIII
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Rhodes of Africa
Title: Rhodes of Africa
Character: Barney Barnato
Released: June 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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The Guv'nor
Title: The Guv'nor
Character: Barsac
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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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Title: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Character: Wright
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The Clairvoyant
Title: The Clairvoyant
Character: MacGregor (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Sheriff Watson
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Sir Murray Keith
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Capt. Jeremy Stickles
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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The Fire Raisers
Title: The Fire Raisers
Character: Brent
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Colonel Blood
Title: Colonel Blood
Character: Colonel Blood
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Hearts of Oak
Title: Hearts of Oak
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A policeman recalls the events of the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918, and draws conclusions for Britain's peacetime policies.
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Doss House
Title: Doss House
Character: Editor
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses in the hopes of finding him there. A young journalist is sent by his editor to assist in the search with the aim of reporting on any interesting stories he may find among those seeking shelter that night in the local doss-house, and is eager to help with the arrest. Among the characters they encounter are a man who claims to have got away with murder, and an alcoholic former concert pianist.
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The Golden Cage
Title: The Golden Cage
Released: March 30, 1933
Type: Movie
'Girl marries rich man but still loves poor hotel clerk.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Song You Gave Me
Title: The Song You Gave Me
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: Major Drake
Released: July 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
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Her Reputation
Title: Her Reputation
Character: Henry Sloane
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.
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Gloria
Title: Gloria
Character: Louis Martino
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Early South African Film