Morland Graham

Morland Graham

Born: August 7, 1891
Died: April 8, 1949
Morland Graham was a British film actor, with a career on stage and screen spanning over 35 years.

He died on 8 April 1949 after taking an overdose of aspirin while suffering from ill health and "nervous depression".

Movies for Morland Graham...

Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: The Biffer
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: Donald MacDonald
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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Esther Waters
Title: Esther Waters
Character: Ketley
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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The Upturned Glass
Title: The Upturned Glass
Character: Clay
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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The Brothers
Title: The Brothers
Character: Angus McFarish
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Morris
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Medal for the General
Title: Medal for the General
Character: Bates
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
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The Shipbuilders
Title: The Shipbuilders
Character: Danny Shields
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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Tower of Terror
Title: Tower of Terror
Character: Harbor Master Kleber
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: C.P.O.Marsden
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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This England
Title: This England
Character: Doctor
Released: July 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
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The Ghost Train
Title: The Ghost Train
Character: Dr. Sterling
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Old Bill
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Father Landbach
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Night Train to Munich
Title: Night Train to Munich
Character: Teleferic Attendant
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Full Speed Ahead
Title: Full Speed Ahead
Character: Gordon Tweedie
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A film directed by John Hunt
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Sydney
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: Minor Role
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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The Bear
Title: The Bear
Character: Luka, a manservant
Released: September 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner. He arrives at her house claiming her late husband owed him money and he wants the debt repaid immediately. They argue and almost have a duel over the debt before they realise that they have fallen in love with each other.
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Where's Sally?
Title: Where's Sally?
Character: Polkinhorne
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Twelve Good Men
Title: Twelve Good Men
Character: Victor Day
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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Get Off My Foot
Title: Get Off My Foot
Character: Major Rawlingcourt
Released: November 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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Moscow Nights
Title: Moscow Nights
Character: Brioukow's Servant
Released: November 5, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Treadle
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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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Treadle the tailor
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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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Hector, Don Juan's Cook
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.