O.B. Clarence

O.B. Clarence

Born: March 25, 1870
Died: October 2, 1955
in London, England

Movies for O.B. Clarence...

The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: Old Gentleman at Epsom
Released: July 5, 1948
Type: Movie
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mr. Woodhouse
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Vicar
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Meet Me at Dawn
Title: Meet Me at Dawn
Character: Ambassador
Released: February 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she is in fact the daughter of the paper's proprietor if only he knew it.
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While the Sun Shines
Title: While the Sun Shines
Character: Old Gentleman
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: The Aged Parent
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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School for Secrets
Title: School for Secrets
Character: Old Retainer
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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The Magic Bow
Title: The Magic Bow
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Egyptian (uncredited)
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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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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A Place of One's Own
Title: A Place of One's Own
Character: Perkins
Released: March 20, 1945
Type: Movie
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
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On Approval
Title: On Approval
Character: Dr. Graham
Released: May 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Lord Cecil
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Title: Old Mother Riley's Circus
Character: Lawyer
Released: December 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
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Turned Out Nice Again
Title: Turned Out Nice Again
Character: Mr. Dawson
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Waiter with Tray of Wine
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Professor Mackenzie
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Major Barbara
Title: Major Barbara
Character: Pettigrew (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Sir Robert McFarland, the First Magistrate
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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Old Mother Riley in Business
Title: Old Mother Riley in Business
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Sir Archibald
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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Spy for a Day
Title: Spy for a Day
Character: Medical Officer
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Mr. Truscott
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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The Human Monster
Title: The Human Monster
Character: Prof. John Dearborn (voice)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
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Young Man's Fancy
Title: Young Man's Fancy
Character: Guest at Reception (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Coach Passenger (uncredited)
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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Black Eyes
Title: Black Eyes
Character: Waiter
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
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Rope
Title: Rope
Character: Sir Johnstone Kentley
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Mr. Birchwood
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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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Sir Philip's Gardener
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: De Marre
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Coachman-in-Chief
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Mr. Gore
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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All In!
Title: All In!
Character: Hemingway
Released: October 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
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East Meets West
Title: East Meets West
Character: Osmin
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Registrar
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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The Cardinal
Title: The Cardinal
Character: Monterosa
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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Captain Bill
Title: Captain Bill
Character: Sir Anthony Kipps
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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The Private Secretary
Title: The Private Secretary
Character: Thomas Marsland
Released: August 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Title: D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Character: Ogleby
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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Squibs
Title: Squibs
Character: Sir John Barrett
Released: June 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
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Dandy Dick
Title: Dandy Dick
Character: Council Member
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Uncle George
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A conflicted sailor tries to balance his family life with his time at sea.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Count de Tournay
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 Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: George Beale
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
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Lady in Danger
Title: Lady in Danger
Character: Nelson
Released: November 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Mr. Hammond
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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The King of Paris
Title: The King of Paris
Character: The Mayor
Released: November 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her romance with theatre electrician Paul Lebrun.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Clockmaker
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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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Rev. John Makehan
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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I Adore You
Title: I Adore You
Character: Mr. Young
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Clerk
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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His Grace Gives Notice
Title: His Grace Gives Notice
Character: Lord Rannock
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Only Girl
Title: The Only Girl
Character: Etienne
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Falling for You
Title: Falling for You
Character: Trubshawe
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Lord Grebe
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Perfect Understanding
Title: Perfect Understanding
Character: Dr. Graham
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
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Discord
Title: Discord
Character: Mr. Hemming
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
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Where Is This Lady?
Title: Where Is This Lady?
Character: Dr. Peffer
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda
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The Barton Mystery
Title: The Barton Mystery
Character: Sir Everard Marshall
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
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The Flag Lieutenant
Title: The Flag Lieutenant
Character: Gen. Gough-Bogle
Released: October 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
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Jack's the Boy
Title: Jack's the Boy
Character: Timkins
Released: June 11, 1932
Type: Movie
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
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Good Night, Vienna
Title: Good Night, Vienna
Character: Theater Manager
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
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Keepers of Youth
Title: Keepers of Youth
Character: Slade
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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The Bells
Title: The Bells
Character: Watchman
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: John Larwood
Released: October 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)