Henry Oscar

Henry Oscar

Born: July 13, 1891
Died: December 28, 1969
in London, England, UK

Movies for Henry Oscar...

Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Released: February 11, 1968
Type: TV
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War-Gods of the Deep
Title: War-Gods of the Deep
Character: Mumford
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
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Murder Ahoy
Title: Murder Ahoy
Character: Lord Rudkin
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: Movie
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
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The Long Ships
Title: The Long Ships
Character: Auctioneer
Released: April 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Silliam (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Inspector Lognon
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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The Brides of Dracula
Title: The Brides of Dracula
Character: Otto Lang
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
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Oscar Wilde
Title: Oscar Wilde
Character: Justice Wills
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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Foxhole in Cairo
Title: Foxhole in Cairo
Character: Col. Zeltinger
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Renoir
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Alderman Sharpe
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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The Secret Man
Title: The Secret Man
Character: John Manning
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Dr. Klein
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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The Spaniard's Curse
Title: The Spaniard's Curse
Character: Mr. Fredericks
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
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The Little Hut
Title: The Little Hut
Character: Mr. Trollope
Released: May 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Private's Progress
Title: Private's Progress
Character: Art Expert
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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Portrait of Alison
Title: Portrait of Alison
Character: John Smith
Released: November 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
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It's a Great Day
Title: It's a Great Day
Character: Borough Surveyor
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
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Diplomatic Passport
Title: Diplomatic Passport
Character: The Chief
Released: August 13, 1954
Type: Movie
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Mr. White
Released: May 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.
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Martin Luther
Title: Martin Luther
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
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The Promise
Title: The Promise
Character: Thomas
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A much loved Prison Missioner has died. His replacement struggles to live up to his predecessor's saintly reputation until he receives inspiration from the Holy Spirit.
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Friar Roger Bacon
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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Prelude to Fame
Title: Prelude to Fame
Character: Mario Bondini
Released: May 2, 1950
Type: Movie
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
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Title: Sunday Night Theatre
Character: Count Sedlinsky
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: TV
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Julius Rickman
Released: May 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
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The Bad Lord Byron
Title: The Bad Lord Byron
Character: Count Gamba
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: King James II
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
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It Happened in Soho
Title: It Happened in Soho
Character: Inspector Carp
Released: June 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.
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House of Darkness
Title: House of Darkness
Character: Bob
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
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Idol of Paris
Title: Idol of Paris
Character: Lachman
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
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The Duke in Darkness
Title: The Duke in Darkness
Character: The Duke of Lamorre
Released: March 11, 1948
Type: Movie
BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play.
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The Greed of William Hart
Title: The Greed of William Hart
Character: Mr. Moore
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: William Pitt
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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The Upturned Glass
Title: The Upturned Glass
Character: Coroner
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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Squadron Leader X
Title: Squadron Leader X
Character: Dr. Schultz
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
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The Day Will Dawn
Title: The Day Will Dawn
Character: Newspaper Editor
Released: June 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
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Hatter's Castle
Title: Hatter's Castle
Character: Grierson
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Samuel Pepys
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Josiah Eagles
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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The Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Sir Edward - Police Commissioner
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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After Mein Kampf
Title: After Mein Kampf
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
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Dead Man's Shoes
Title: Dead Man's Shoes
Character: President of the Court
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Character: Andrew Pilleger
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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The Saint in London
Title: The Saint in London
Character: Bruno Lang
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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The Four Feathers
Title: The Four Feathers
Character: Dr. Harraz
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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Spies of the Air
Title: Spies of the Air
Character: Porter
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
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The Miser
Title: The Miser
Character: Harpagon - Father of Cleante and Elise
Released: March 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.
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Luck of the Navy
Title: Luck of the Navy
Character: Cmdr. Perrin
Released: November 27, 1938
Type: Movie
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
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Black Limelight
Title: Black Limelight
Character: Inspector Tanner
Released: June 14, 1938
Type: Movie
This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a multiple murder investigation – a case that sparks a sensationalist press frenzy when it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Joe Conner
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Maximilien Robespierre
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Swedish Magistrate
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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Fire Over England
Title: Fire Over England
Character: Spanish Ambassador
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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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Superintendant Stainer
Released: December 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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Love in Exile
Title: Love in Exile
Character: Dictator
Released: December 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Cyril Anstey
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
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Dishonour Bright
Title: Dishonour Bright
Character: Blenkinsop
Released: September 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
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The Man Behind the Mask
Title: The Man Behind the Mask
Character: Interpol Detective
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Axel Hoyt
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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The Tunnel
Title: The Tunnel
Character: Grellier
Released: October 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Goultier
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Title: The Case of Gabriel Perry
Character: Gabriel Perry
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
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Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Title: Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Character: Dr. Gibbs
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Dentist George Barbor (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
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Red Ensign
Title: Red Ensign
Character: Raglan
Released: June 17, 1934
Type: Movie
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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After Dark
Title: After Dark
Character: Higgins
Released: January 23, 1933
Type: Movie
If it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen. They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an antique shop. When the thieves return for them, the clock has been sold! They trace it to a creepy country estate. When Hugh and the niece of one of the crooks also show up, things get hairy.