Joss Ambler

Joss Ambler

Born: June 23, 1900
Died: January 1, 1959
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Movies for Joss Ambler...

The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Hobson
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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The Feminine Touch
Title: The Feminine Touch
Character: Bateman
Released: June 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Cashier at Shipping Office
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Soho Incident
Title: Soho Incident
Character: Tom Walker
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.
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Dead by Morning
Title: Dead by Morning
Character: Inspector Thorne
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
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John Wesley
Title: John Wesley
Character: Georgia Trustee
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
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Background
Title: Background
Character: Judge
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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Ghost Ship
Title: Ghost Ship
Character: Yacht Port Manager
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
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Who Goes There!
Title: Who Goes There!
Character: Guide
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
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The Magnet
Title: The Magnet
Character: Businessman
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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Her Favourite Husband
Title: Her Favourite Husband
Character: Mr. Wilson
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
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Mine Own Executioner
Title: Mine Own Executioner
Character: Julian Briant
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
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The Years Between
Title: The Years Between
Character: Atherton
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Title: I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Character: Dugan
Released: July 30, 1945
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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What's the Next Job?
Title: What's the Next Job?
Character: Ewing
Released: June 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Adams
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Charles Sheridan - the manager of Overend Works
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: Bradshaw
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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A Canterbury Tale
Title: A Canterbury Tale
Character: Police Inspector
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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The Halfway House
Title: The Halfway House
Character: Pinsent
Released: February 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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Candles at Nine
Title: Candles at Nine
Character: Garth Hope
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
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Headline
Title: Headline
Character: Chief Sub-Editor
Released: November 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Somewhere in Civvies
Title: Somewhere in Civvies
Character: Matthews
Released: November 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Ex-army private Randle stands to receive a substantial inheritance from his uncle if he can prove he is of sound mind. However, his devious cousin tries to grab the money by having Randle committed to a psychiatric home.
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Battle for Music
Title: Battle for Music
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in World War II, from going bust, to being taken over by the musicians to run itself. Starring many of the members of the orchestra themselves
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The Silver Fleet
Title: The Silver Fleet
Character: Cornelis Smit
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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The Peterville Diamond
Title: The Peterville Diamond
Character: Police Chief
Released: January 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Sir George Driscol
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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Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Title: Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Character: Mr. Perry
Released: August 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Mr Vemon
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: Sir John
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Lord Mayor of London
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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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Dr. Lardner
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Ashton
Released: May 11, 1940
Type: Movie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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Come on George!
Title: Come on George!
Character: Sir Charles Bailey - the owner of the racehorse 'Maneater'
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
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Black Eyes
Title: Black Eyes
Character: Tipsy Diner
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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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Lord Redhill
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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Murder in Soho
Title: Murder in Soho
Character: Drunk
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Dr. A.H. Llewellyn
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 Claydon Treasure Mystery
Title: The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Character: Inspector Fleming
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
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Premiere
Title: Premiere
Character: Spectator
Released: January 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.