Leslie Perrins

Leslie Perrins

Born: October 7, 1901
Died: December 13, 1962
in Moseley, Birmingham, England, UK
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Leslie Perrins (October 7, 1901 – December 13, 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. In his long career, he appeared in well over 60 films. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham, England and died in Esher, England.

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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Count Hegel
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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Grip of the Strangler
Title: Grip of the Strangler
Character: Newgate Prison Governor
Released: May 11, 1958
Type: Movie
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
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Fortune Is a Woman
Title: Fortune Is a Woman
Character: Chairman of Tribunal
Released: March 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Character: Poynter
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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The Big Frame
Title: The Big Frame
Character: Dr. Derek Morrison
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
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A Run for Your Money
Title: A Run for Your Money
Character: Burney
Released: November 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Charlie
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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Idol of Paris
Title: Idol of Paris
Character: Count Paiva
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 Turners of Prospect Road
Title: The Turners of Prospect Road
Character: Mr. Webster
Released: June 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
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I'll Turn to You
Title: I'll Turn to You
Character: Chigwell
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
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Heaven Is Round the Corner
Title: Heaven Is Round the Corner
Character: Robert Sedley
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
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Women Aren't Angels
Title: Women Aren't Angels
Character: Schaffer
Released: January 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
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Suspected Person
Title: Suspected Person
Character: Tony Garrett
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
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Blind Folly
Title: Blind Folly
Character: Deverell
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
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I Killed the Count
Title: I Killed the Count
Character: Count Mattoni
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
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Wanted by Scotland Yard
Title: Wanted by Scotland Yard
Character: Standish
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Harper
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Title: His Lordship Goes to Press
Character: Sir Richard Swingleton
Released: January 16, 1939
Type: Movie
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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Luck of the Navy
Title: Luck of the Navy
Character: Briggs
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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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Title: Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Character: Jeffrey Legge (Maj. Jeffrey Floyd)
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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The High Command
Title: The High Command
Character: Maj. Carson
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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The Price of Folly
Title: The Price of Folly
Character: Owen
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Major Grayson
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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Secret Lives
Title: Secret Lives
Character: J 14
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Strange
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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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Anthony Wild
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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Tudor Rose
Title: Tudor Rose
Character: Thomas Seymour
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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Rhythm in the Air
Title: Rhythm in the Air
Character: Mr. David, Dance Director
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses his balance and falls.
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Sunshine Ahead
Title: Sunshine Ahead
Character: Brady, The Critic
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Title: D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Character: Sir Charles Hawksley / Mr. Craven
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Maurice Windermere
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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The Village Squire
Title: The Village Squire
Character: Richard Venables
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Character: John Douglas
Released: March 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
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The Rocks of Valpre
Title: The Rocks of Valpre
Character: Captain Rodolphe
Released: January 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Alec Larkin
Released: October 21, 1934
Type: Movie
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
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Gay Love
Title: Gay Love
Character: Gerald Sparkes
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
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Lord Edgware Dies
Title: Lord Edgware Dies
Character: Bryan Martin
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 Man Who Changed His Name
Title: The Man Who Changed His Name
Character: Frank Ryan
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Title: The Scotland Yard Mystery
Character: John Freeman
Released: January 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
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Open All Night
Title: Open All Night
Character: Ranger
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
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The Pointing Finger
Title: The Pointing Finger
Character: Honorable James Mallory
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
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Leave It to Smith
Title: Leave It to Smith
Character: Duke of Bristol
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Meyer
Released: August 8, 1933
Type: Movie
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rented room is next to a cinema with its frankfurter-munching projectionist and romantic musical numbers that seem to permeate their lives. Might they meet and fall in love?' (BFI)
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The Lost Chord
Title: The Lost Chord
Character: Count Zera
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Roof
Title: The Roof
Character: Inspector Darrow
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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White Face
Title: White Face
Character: Louis Landor
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Clive Wilson
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
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The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: Henry Lascarne
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
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The Rosary
Title: The Rosary
Character: Ronald Overton
Released: July 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
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The House of Unrest
Title: The House of Unrest
Character: Cleaver
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
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The Sleeping Cardinal
Title: The Sleeping Cardinal
Character: Ronald Adair
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
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Blake the Lawbreaker
Title: Blake the Lawbreaker
Character: Fairbairn
Released: May 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
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The Clue of the Second Goblet
Title: The Clue of the Second Goblet
Character: Fairbairn
Released: May 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.