John Turnbull

John Turnbull

Born: November 5, 1880
Died: February 23, 1956
in Dunbar, Scotland, UK
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John Turnbull was a British film actor.

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Prete, fai un miracolo
Title: Prete, fai un miracolo
Character: Edgar
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Title: The Happiest Days of Your Life
Character: Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Judge
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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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Superintendent
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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So Well Remembered
Title: So Well Remembered
Character: Morris
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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The Hangman Waits
Title: The Hangman Waits
Character: Inspector
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.
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A Place of One's Own
Title: A Place of One's Own
Character: Sir Roland Jervis
Released: March 20, 1945
Type: Movie
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Police Sergeant
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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Fanny by Gaslight
Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Magistrate (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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The Shipbuilders
Title: The Shipbuilders
Character: Baird
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Mr. Rowlandson
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Title: Old Mother Riley's Circus
Character: Cinema Manager
Released: December 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Father at School Cricket Match
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Inspector Richards
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Inspector Gill
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Station-master
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Title: Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Character: Chief Constable
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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Spies of the Air
Title: Spies of the Air
Character: Sir Andrew Hamilton
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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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Title: Dead Men Are Dangerous
Character: Inspector Roberts
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Decius Brutus/Messala
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
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The Gaunt Stranger
Title: The Gaunt Stranger
Character: Prison Governor
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
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Stepping Toes
Title: Stepping Toes
Character: Representative
Released: September 11, 1938
Type: Movie
The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by hereditary, and wins a talent competition, leading to star in a west end show.
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Night Alone
Title: Night Alone
Character: Superintendent
Released: July 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Superintendent Hallick
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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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: uncredited
Released: May 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
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Saturday Night Revue
Title: Saturday Night Revue
Character: Minor Role
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
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Song of the Road
Title: Song of the Road
Character: Bristow
Released: August 8, 1937
Type: Movie
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
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Silver Blaze
Title: Silver Blaze
Character: Inspector Lestrade
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Make-Up
Title: Make-Up
Character: Karo
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: Von Zeppelin
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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His Lordship
Title: His Lordship
Character: Stevenson
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Minister
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Tudor Rose
Title: Tudor Rose
Character: Arundel
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Detective Collins
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Title: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Character: Masters
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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Shipmates o' Mine
Title: Shipmates o' Mine
Character: Captain Roberts
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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The Black Mask
Title: The Black Mask
Character: Inspector Murray
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Title: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Character: Major Tomkin
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Scottish Police Inspector (uncredited)
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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Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Title: Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Character: Inspector Donnell
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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Once in a New Moon
Title: Once in a New Moon
Character: Capt. Crump
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Jellyband
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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Passing Shadows
Title: Passing Shadows
Character: Inspector Goodall
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
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Tangled Evidence
Title: Tangled Evidence
Character: Moore
Released: September 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
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The Lady Is Willing
Title: The Lady Is Willing
Character: Butler
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
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Lord Edgware Dies
Title: Lord Edgware Dies
Character: Inspector Japp
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
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The Night of the Party
Title: The Night of the Party
Character: Inspector Ramage
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
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Music Hall
Title: Music Hall
Character: Collins
Released: June 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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The Black Abbot
Title: The Black Abbot
Character: Inspector Lockwood
Released: June 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
Title: The Rise of Catherine the Great
Character: Rumyantsev
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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Matinee Idol
Title: Matinee Idol
Character: Inspector North
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Hans Holbein (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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The Man Outside
Title: The Man Outside
Character: Inspector Jukes
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
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The Umbrella
Title: The Umbrella
Character: Governor
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Detective Inspector Carr
Released: March 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
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Puppets of Fate
Title: Puppets of Fate
Character: Inspector
Released: January 10, 1933
Type: Movie
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Ask Beccles
Title: Ask Beccles
Character: Inspector Daniels
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
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The Midshipmaid
Title: The Midshipmaid
Character: Officer
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
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Murder on the Second Floor
Title: Murder on the Second Floor
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
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A Voice Said Goodnight
Title: A Voice Said Goodnight
Character: Inspector Lavory
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
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Detective Lloyd
Title: Detective Lloyd
Character: Barclay - Scotland Yard Superindendant
Released: January 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
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Keepers of Youth
Title: Keepers of Youth
Character: Gordon Duff
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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The Wickham Mystery
Title: The Wickham Mystery
Character: Howard Clayton
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Man at Six
Title: The Man at Six
Character: Inspector Dawford
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
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77 Park Lane
Title: 77 Park Lane
Character: Superintendent
Released: July 2, 1931
Type: Movie
When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
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Rodney Steps In
Title: Rodney Steps In
Character: Inspector
Released: June 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.
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Tons of Money
Title: Tons of Money
Character: Sprules
Released: December 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.