Wylie Watson

Wylie Watson

Born: February 4, 1889
Died: May 3, 1966
in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Movies for Wylie Watson...

The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: Herb Johnson
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Memory (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 Magnet
Title: The Magnet
Character: Pickering
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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Shadow of the Past
Title: Shadow of the Past
Character: caretaker
Released: September 4, 1950
Type: Movie
A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.
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Your Witness
Title: Your Witness
Character: Mr. Widgery
Released: March 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: Joseph Macroon
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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No Room at the Inn
Title: No Room at the Inn
Character: Councilor Green
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Mr. Josser
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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Things Happen at Night
Title: Things Happen at Night
Character: Watson
Released: November 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Bagley
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Brighton Rock
Title: Brighton Rock
Character: Spicer
Released: January 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Pendleton
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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Temptation Harbour
Title: Temptation Harbour
Character: Fred
Released: February 27, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
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The Years Between
Title: The Years Between
Character: Venning
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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The Trojan Brothers
Title: The Trojan Brothers
Character: Stage Manager
Released: February 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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Murder in Reverse?
Title: Murder in Reverse?
Character: Tailor
Released: October 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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Waltz Time
Title: Waltz Time
Character: Josef
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.
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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Peabody
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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Waterloo Road
Title: Waterloo Road
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Character: David Dodd
Released: January 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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The World Owes Me a Living
Title: The World Owes Me a Living
Character: Band Conductor
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
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Strawberry Roan
Title: Strawberry Roan
Character: Bill Gurd
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Harry Bucket
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Tawny Pipit
Title: Tawny Pipit
Character: Crasker
Released: April 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
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The Lamp Still Burns
Title: The Lamp Still Burns
Character: Diabetic Patient
Released: November 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
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The Flemish Farm
Title: The Flemish Farm
Character: Farmer
Released: September 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Title: Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Character: Friend
Released: December 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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The Saint Meets the Tiger
Title: The Saint Meets the Tiger
Character: Horace (Templar's butler)
Released: December 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Fiddlesticks
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
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From the Four Corners
Title: From the Four Corners
Character: Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Salvation
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Yes, Madam?
Title: Yes, Madam?
Character: Albert
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.
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Queer Cargo
Title: Queer Cargo
Character: Rev. James Travers
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Clarence
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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Please Teacher
Title: Please Teacher
Character: Oswald Clutterbuck
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...
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Radio Lover
Title: Radio Lover
Character: Joe Morrison
Released: October 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune.
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The Black Mask
Title: The Black Mask
Character: Jimmie Glass
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Mr. Memory
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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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Magician
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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Hawleys of High Street
Title: Hawleys of High Street
Character: Rev. Potter
Released: June 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Client
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Rev. James
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Bit Role
Released: December 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.