Howard Douglas

Howard Douglas

Born: January 12, 1896
Died: January 1, 1973
in Hackney, London, England, UK

Movies for Howard Douglas...

The Plank
Title: The Plank
Character: Old Man
Released: May 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Harry
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Three Hats for Lisa
Title: Three Hats for Lisa
Character: Cinema Caretaker
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Ticket Collector
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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Title: The Saint
Character: Tom Crofton
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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Whistle Down the Wind
Title: Whistle Down the Wind
Character: The Vet, Dr. Weaver
Released: July 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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Jungle Street
Title: Jungle Street
Character: Old Bill
Released: January 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.
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The Desperate Women
Title: The Desperate Women
Character: Eddie
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
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Meet Mr. Callaghan
Title: Meet Mr. Callaghan
Character: Tweest
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Title: Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Character: Donald Urquhart
Released: October 26, 1953
Type: Movie
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Gentleman of the Stock Exchange
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
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State Secret
Title: State Secret
Character: Clubman
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Williams
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: 3rd 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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Trottie True
Title: Trottie True
Character: Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Barge Captain Sweeney
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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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Chairman of the First Meeting (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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Born of the Sea
Title: Born of the Sea
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the lifeboat crew.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Jenkins
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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Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Title: Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Character: Nobby Clarke
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.
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Miranda
Title: Miranda
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1948
Type: Movie
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Bailiff
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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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Chief Warder
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Dear Murderer
Title: Dear Murderer
Character: Doctor
Released: June 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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The Upturned Glass
Title: The Upturned Glass
Character: Lorry Driver
Released: June 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: William Tabb
Released: January 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947.
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The Night Comes Too Soon
Title: The Night Comes Too Soon
Released: November 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman's late wife, and her lover, whom the sailor had shot.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Guest at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Head Park Keeper
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Mr. Quilp
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Night Boat to Dublin
Title: Night Boat to Dublin
Character: Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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The Echo Murders
Title: The Echo Murders
Character: Preston
Released: December 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Taylor
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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A Window in London
Title: A Window in London
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: June 15, 1940
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Miner at Rescue
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Design for Murder
Title: Design for Murder
Character: The Landlord
Released: March 27, 1939
Type: Movie
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
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Men Without Honour
Title: Men Without Honour
Character: Fane
Released: January 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: A Ropemaker
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Return of a Stranger
Title: Return of a Stranger
Character: Mr. Van Der Geun
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
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Under a Cloud
Title: Under a Cloud
Character: Gambler on Ship
Released: August 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
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Brief Ecstasy
Title: Brief Ecstasy
Character: Coleman
Released: July 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
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The Wife of General Ling
Title: The Wife of General Ling
Character: Doctor
Released: April 7, 1937
Type: Movie
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
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Fire Over England
Title: Fire Over England
Character: Lord Amberley
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Gluckstein
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
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No Limit
Title: No Limit
Character: Turner
Released: October 28, 1935
Type: Movie
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Ticket Inspector (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Death at Broadcasting House
Title: Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Weisskopf (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.