Tom Helmore

Tom Helmore

Born: January 4, 1904
Died: September 12, 1995
in London, England
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Tom Helmore (4 January 1904 – 12 September 1995) was an English film actor. He appeared in over 50 films between 1927 and 1972, including three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

He was born in London and died in Longboat Key, Florida.

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Title: Night Gallery
Character: John Warwick (segment “The Caterpillar”)
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Flipper's New Adventure
Title: Flipper's New Adventure
Character: Sir Halsey Hopewell
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called by most) is away, Sandy learns that the family home, built on state land, is being torn down to make way for a highway. In turn, Sandy would be sent to live with relatives, while Flipper would be sent to the seaquarium permanently. Not wanting to be separated from Flipper, Sandy, using his skiff, runs away with Flipper. A distraught Po returns home to look for his son. Meanwhile, the Hopewell family from Britain are vacationing in the area. Their sailboat is hijacked by three escaped convicts, who take the father, Halsey, hostage, and set the three Hopewell women - mother Julia, and teen-aged daughters Gwen and Penny - adrift, they who eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding... Written by Huggo
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Advise & Consent
Title: Advise & Consent
Character: British Ambassador
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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The Time Machine
Title: The Time Machine
Character: Anthony Bridewell
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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The Man in the Net
Title: The Man in the Net
Character: Gordon Moreland
Released: June 10, 1959
Type: Movie
An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.
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Count Your Blessings
Title: Count Your Blessings
Character: Hugh Palgrave
Released: April 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
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Vertigo
Title: Vertigo
Character: Gavin Elster
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Designing Woman
Title: Designing Woman
Character: Zachary Wilde
Released: May 16, 1957
Type: Movie
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
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This Could Be the Night
Title: This Could Be the Night
Character: Stowe Devlin
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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Lucy Gallant
Title: Lucy Gallant
Character: Jim Wardman
Released: October 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Miles Farnham
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Lamont Cranston
Released: June 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.
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Let's Do It Again
Title: Let's Do It Again
Character: Courtney Craig
Released: June 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Harold McCormick
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: George Manson
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Detective Superintendent Tom Reid
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Shadow on the Wall
Title: Shadow on the Wall
Character: Crane Weymouth
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia's husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and end up on death row. Later Dell, finding out that David's young daughter Susan was witness to the crime and is undergoing psychiatric treatment, plans to eliminate her before her memory returns.
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Malaya
Title: Malaya
Character: Matisson
Released: December 27, 1949
Type: Movie
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
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Scene of the Crime
Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Norrie Lorfield
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Michael Pemberton
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Easy Riches
Title: Easy Riches
Character: Harry Miller
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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The Right Age to Marry
Title: The Right Age to Marry
Character: Stephen
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
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The Riverside Murder
Title: The Riverside Murder
Character: Alfred Jerome
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Peter Dewin
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
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Up for the Derby
Title: Up for the Derby
Character: Ronnie Gordon
Released: March 20, 1933
Type: Movie
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The King's Cup
Title: The King's Cup
Character: Ronnie Helmore
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
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The Barton Mystery
Title: The Barton Mystery
Character: Harry Maitland
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
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Above Rubies
Title: Above Rubies
Character: Paul
Released: July 11, 1932
Type: Movie
In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
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Two Way Street
Title: Two Way Street
Character: Geoffrey
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
'Bird fancier's daughter loves nobleman whom her cockney fiancé robs of necklace.' (British Film Catalogue)
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My Wife's Family
Title: My Wife's Family
Character: Willie Nagg
Released: June 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
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The House of Unrest
Title: The House of Unrest
Character: David
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
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Leave It to Me
Title: Leave It to Me
Character: Tony
Released: October 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by George King.
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White Cargo
Title: White Cargo
Character: Worthing
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
The manager of a rubber plantation marries a native and she tries to poison him.
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The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
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.