Ralph Forbes

Ralph Forbes

Born: September 29, 1904
Died: March 31, 1951
in Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Ralph Forbes (born Ralph Forbes Taylor, 30 September 1904 – 31 March 1951) was an English film and stage actor in the UK and the United States.

Movies for Ralph Forbes...

Frenchman's Creek
Title: Frenchman's Creek
Character: Harry St. Columb
Released: September 20, 1944
Type: Movie
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Character: Leslie Barrivale
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
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Adventure in Diamonds
Title: Adventure in Diamonds
Character: Mr. Perrins
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Tom McDonald
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Henry Tudor
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: Lord Knollys
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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The Magnificent Fraud
Title: The Magnificent Fraud
Character: Harrison Todd
Released: July 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Sir Hugo Baskerville
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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Convicts at Large
Title: Convicts at Large
Character: David Brent
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
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Annabel Takes a Tour
Title: Annabel Takes a Tour
Character: Viscount Ronald River-Clyde
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Oliver le Dain
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: James
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Martin Brush
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Cast of Stage Play
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Walter Mays
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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Woman Against the World
Title: Woman Against the World
Character: Larry Steele
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.
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The Legion of Missing Men
Title: The Legion of Missing Men
Character: Bob Carter
Released: July 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Lionel Trent
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Title: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character: Cousin John Clayborn
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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Rich Relations
Title: Rich Relations
Character: Dave Walton
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Meredith Landers
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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Daniel Boone
Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Stephen Marlowe
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Paris
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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Piccadilly Jim
Title: Piccadilly Jim
Character: Lord Frederick 'Freddie' Priory
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
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Mary of Scotland
Title: Mary of Scotland
Character: Randolph
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Tommy Tilton
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Title: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Duke of Buckingham
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The Goose and the Gander
Title: The Goose and the Gander
Character: Ralph Summers
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Character: Fred Arnold
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Rescue Squad
Title: Rescue Squad
Character: DeWitt Porter
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.
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Age of Indiscretion
Title: Age of Indiscretion
Character: Felix Shaw
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
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Enchanted April
Title: Enchanted April
Character: Peppo Briggs
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
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Strange Wives
Title: Strange Wives
Character: Paul
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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Outcast Lady
Title: Outcast Lady
Character: Boy Fenwick
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Title: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character: Captain Surtees Cook
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
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The Fountain
Title: The Fountain
Character: Ballater
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Derek Marbury
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
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Twentieth Century
Title: Twentieth Century
Character: George Smith
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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Riptide
Title: Riptide
Character: David Fenwick
Released: March 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
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The Mystery of Mr. X
Title: The Mystery of Mr. X
Character: Marche
Released: February 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
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Bombay Mail
Title: Bombay Mail
Character: William Luke-Patson
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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The Solitaire Man
Title: The Solitaire Man
Character: Bascom
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Norman Craig
Released: August 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Pleasure Cruise
Title: Pleasure Cruise
Character: Richard Orloff / Taversham
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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The Phantom Broadcast
Title: The Phantom Broadcast
Character: Norman Wilder
Released: March 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.
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Christopher Strong
Title: Christopher Strong
Character: Harry Rawlinson
Released: March 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
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Smilin' Through
Title: Smilin' Through
Character: Willie Ainley
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
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Thunder Below
Title: Thunder Below
Character: Davis
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: John Geste
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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The Bachelor Father
Title: The Bachelor Father
Character: John Ashley
Released: January 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
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Her Wedding Night
Title: Her Wedding Night
Character: Larry Charters
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
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Inside the Lines
Title: Inside the Lines
Character: Eric Woodhouse
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
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The Lady of Scandal
Title: The Lady of Scandal
Character: John
Released: May 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
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Mamba
Title: Mamba
Character: Karl von Reiden
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
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The Green Goddess
Title: The Green Goddess
Character: Dr. Traherne
Released: February 13, 1930
Type: Movie
An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Ted Willing
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Restless Youth
Title: Restless Youth
Character: Bruce Neil
Released: November 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney). Dixie uses an employment agency to unknowingly land a job with Neil's attorney son, Bruce. A romance develops between the two until they go to meet the old man, who promptly forces Dixie to break up with Bruce because of her 'sordid' past. Bruce will have none of it, so to get him to drop her she attempts to get 'caught' in an innocent date with her employment agency contact, Haines. Unfortunately, Haines has different ideas about their encounter and will not take "no" for an answer so Dixie is forced to clock him with an urn, killing him. Dixie's trial for murder leads to a courtroom confrontation between father and son, with her fate resting in the balance.
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The Masks of the Devil
Title: The Masks of the Devil
Character: Manfred
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Lord Brancaster
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
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The Actress
Title: The Actress
Character: Arthur Gower
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
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Under the Black Eagle
Title: Under the Black Eagle
Character: Karl von Zorn
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
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The Trail of '98
Title: The Trail of '98
Character: Larry
Released: March 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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The Latest from Paris
Title: The Latest from Paris
Character: Joe Adams
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
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The Circus: Premiere
Title: The Circus: Premiere
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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The Enemy
Title: The Enemy
Character: Carl Behrend
Released: December 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
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Mr. Wu
Title: Mr. Wu
Character: Basil Gregory
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: John Geste
Released: August 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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Charleys tant
Title: Charleys tant
Character: Jack Chesney
Released: March 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Two Oxford University students, Jack and Charles, find themselves in a predicament. They enlist a friend to impersonate Charley's aunt from Brazil as a solution to their problems, not realizing that it would further complicate the situation.
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Réveille
Title: Réveille
Character: The Kid
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
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Owd Bob
Title: Owd Bob
Character: David McAdam
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
An old farmer's sheepdog is saved when a rival's dog is proved to be a sheep killer.
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Comin' Thro the Rye
Title: Comin' Thro the Rye
Character: George Tempest
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
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The Glorious Adventure
Title: The Glorious Adventure
Character: Courtier (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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A Lowland Cinderella
Title: A Lowland Cinderella
Character: Master of Darrock
Released: January 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A retelling of Cinderella in 1920s Britain.