Harry Terry

Harry Terry

Born: January 1, 1887

Movies for Harry Terry...

Mr. Denning Drives North
Title: Mr. Denning Drives North
Character: Gypsy (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Man on Dock (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Man Outside Taxi Garage (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: Watchman
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical set during the French Revolution.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Irish Smuggler (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Park Keeper
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Mick
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Waterloo Road
Title: Waterloo Road
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Workman (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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Here Comes the Sun
Title: Here Comes the Sun
Character: Bill
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Delivery Man
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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The Goose Steps Out
Title: The Goose Steps Out
Character: SS Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: Bill
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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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Camp Guard
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Court Police Officer
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Customer In Public Bar (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Sailor
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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The Proud Valley
Title: The Proud Valley
Character: Miner
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Character: Street Orator
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Old Mother Riley, MP
Title: Old Mother Riley, MP
Character: First Man At Front Door
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Title: Cheer Boys Cheer
Character: Brewery Worker
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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Young Man's Fancy
Title: Young Man's Fancy
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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There Ain't No Justice
Title: There Ain't No Justice
Character: Man Outside Stadium (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: The Face at the Window
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chevalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chevalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Race Card Seller / Slush Passer
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Released Convict (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: A Furniture Thief
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
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Beauty and the Barge
Title: Beauty and the Barge
Character: Ted
Released: February 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Crew Member
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Sailor in Audience
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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Music Hall
Title: Music Hall
Character: Flies
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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Say It with Flowers
Title: Say It with Flowers
Character: Concert Patron
Released: May 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Henri
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
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The Unholy Quest
Title: The Unholy Quest
Character: Soapy
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
A mad doctor attains the dead body of a racketeer who was recently murdered by a rival mobster. The doctor has a bizarre and sinister experiment in mind...he intends to use the corpse as a vessel to resurrect one of the Knights Templar from the time of the Christian Crusades.
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Love on Wheels
Title: Love on Wheels
Character: Man at the Gate
Released: July 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Gregg
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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The Sleeping Cardinal
Title: The Sleeping Cardinal
Character: No. 16
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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Night Birds
Title: Night Birds
Character: Toothpick Jeff
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
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Lord Richard in the Pantry
Title: Lord Richard in the Pantry
Character: Bert
Released: July 24, 1930
Type: Movie
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The American Prisoner
Title: The American Prisoner
Character: Bosun Knapps
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
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The Vagabond Queen
Title: The Vagabond Queen
Character: Winkleburg
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
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Piccadilly
Title: Piccadilly
Character: Publican
Released: February 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
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The Manxman
Title: The Manxman
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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Cocktails
Title: Cocktails
Character: Bosco
Released: December 4, 1928
Type: Movie
The guardian of an heiress tries to destroy the reputation of her lover by planting drugs on him.
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The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: The Showman
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.