D.A. Clarke-Smith

D.A. Clarke-Smith

Born: August 2, 1888
Died: March 12, 1959
in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK

Movies for D.A. Clarke-Smith...

The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: Cardinal Wolsey
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Dodson
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Phaon
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Frieda
Title: Frieda
Character: Herriot
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
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Flying Fifty-Five
Title: Flying Fifty-Five
Character: Jacques Gregory
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Marcus Anthony
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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Splinters in the Air
Title: Splinters in the Air
Character: Warrant Officer
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.
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Murder by Rope
Title: Murder by Rope
Character: Hanson
Released: August 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
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The Happy Family
Title: The Happy Family
Character: Mr. Harrison
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Counsellor Doone
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Joe Farmer
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Binstead
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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Passing Shadows
Title: Passing Shadows
Character: Stranger
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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The Perfect Flaw
Title: The Perfect Flaw
Character: Louis Maddox
Released: May 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
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A Cup of Kindness
Title: A Cup of Kindness
Character: Mr. Finch
Released: May 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
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Turkey Time
Title: Turkey Time
Character: Westbourne
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Max
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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Mayfair Girl
Title: Mayfair Girl
Character: Captain Merrow
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
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The Ghoul
Title: The Ghoul
Character: Mahmoud
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
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High Finance
Title: High Finance
Character: Dodman
Released: June 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
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Follow the Lady
Title: Follow the Lady
Character: Flash Bob
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
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White Face
Title: White Face
Character: Dr. Rudd
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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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Franklyn Dean (as D.E. Clarke-Smith)
Released: April 26, 1932
Type: Movie
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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Help Yourself
Title: Help Yourself
Character: Major Fred Harris
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
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The Frightened Lady
Title: The Frightened Lady
Character: Dr. Amersham
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
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A Voice Said Goodnight
Title: A Voice Said Goodnight
Character: Philip Gaylor
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
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The Old Man
Title: The Old Man
Character: John Lorney
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Michael and Mary
Title: Michael and Mary
Character: Harry Price
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Gruhn
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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Bracelets
Title: Bracelets
Character: Joe le Sage
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Freddie Tate-Hughes
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.