Esme Percy

Esme Percy

Born: August 8, 1887
Died: June 17, 1957

Movies for Esme Percy...

Disclosure
Title: Disclosure
Character: Handel Fane (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Blind Man
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Death in the Hand
Title: Death in the Hand
Character: Cosmo Vaughan
Released: March 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Title: The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Character: Vizier
Released: October 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
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Lisbon Story
Title: Lisbon Story
Character: Mariot
Released: May 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Major Domo
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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Hi Gang!
Title: Hi Gang!
Character: Lord Chamberlain
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Henry Wallen
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Count Aristid Karpathy
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Title: The Tell-Tale Heart
Released: January 4, 1939
Type: Movie
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Our Fighting Navy
Title: Our Fighting Navy
Character: Diego de Costa
Released: September 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the Marines and the Customs" and Lieutenant Enricquo, the gunnery officer of the small republic's one battleship, have taken over the battleship, and the town. Most of the British citizens have taken refuge at the Consulate or have been evacuated to the small cruiser in Bianco's port, the "H. M. S. Audacious." But there are two major issues; the Consul's daughter, Pamela, and Canadian Lieutenant Bill Armstrong have been kidnapped by the rebels and now held hostage on the battleship "El Mirante," and El Presidente was visiting the consulate when the war broke out and is now under the protective custody of the British Empire.
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The Frog
Title: The Frog
Character: Philo Johnson
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors to capitalise on the potential of cinema to increase his already considerable celebrity. His luridly titled thrillers depicting shady underworlds remained popular film sources long after his death in 1932. This lavish production boasts a distinguished cast and delivers on all fronts: from romance and exotic cabaret acts, to heaps of tension and a dramatic reveal.
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When Thief Meets Thief
Title: When Thief Meets Thief
Character: Robinson
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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Accused
Title: Accused
Character: Morel
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Land Without Music
Title: Land Without Music
Character: Austrian Ambassador
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
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Song of Freedom
Title: Song of Freedom
Character: Gabriel Donozetti
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: John Townsend
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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The Invader
Title: The Invader
Character: Jose
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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Invitation To The Waltz
Title: Invitation To The Waltz
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Abdul the Damned
Title: Abdul the Damned
Character: Ali, the Grand Eunuch
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Pommier
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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Royal Cavalcade
Title: Royal Cavalcade
Character: Lloyd George
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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Unfinished Symphony
Title: Unfinished Symphony
Character: Huettenbrenner
Released: August 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue. English-language version of "Leise flehen meine Lieder."
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Samuel Pepys
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Character: Goebschen
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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On Secret Service
Title: On Secret Service
Character: Bleuntzli - Reporter
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Hugh Devon
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
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Summer Lightning
Title: Summer Lightning
Character: Baxter
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.
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The Lucky Number
Title: The Lucky Number
Character: Chairman
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
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Murder!
Title: Murder!
Character: Handel Fane
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.