Norman Shelley

Norman Shelley

Born: February 16, 1903
Died: August 22, 1980
in Chelsea, London, England, UK

Movies for Norman Shelley...

Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Major Bullen
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Title: Raffles
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: TV
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".
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Gulliver's Travels
Title: Gulliver's Travels
Character: Father / Emperor of Lilliput (voice)
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly animated.
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Title: I, Claudius
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Title: The Venturers
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: TV
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
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The General's Day
Title: The General's Day
Released: November 20, 1972
Type: Movie
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Auguste Van Helm
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Whatever Became of Me?
Title: Whatever Became of Me?
Character: Burgess
Released: August 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
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Title: Justice
Character: Captain Glint
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: Codename
Character: Charles
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: TV
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Sefton Gardiner
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Title: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Character: Guest - Smoking pipe
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
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Otley
Title: Otley
Character: Businessman
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Staff Officer in Ballroom
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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The Furry Folk on Holiday
Title: The Furry Folk on Holiday
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Animal puppet cartoon demonstrating three aspects of accident prevention, not swimming whilst the tide goes out, not burying broken glass in the sand and remembering kerb drill. Produced as part of the Tufty child safety campaign.
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A Place to Go
Title: A Place to Go
Character: Magistrate
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
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The Angry Silence
Title: The Angry Silence
Character: Seagrave
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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The Price of Silence
Title: The Price of Silence
Character: Councillor Forbes
Released: June 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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Strange Stories
Title: Strange Stories
Character: Mr. Gilkie ('Strange Mr Bartleby')
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
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Private Information
Title: Private Information
Character: Herbert J. Freemantle
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Superintendent Morley
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
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Her Favourite Husband
Title: Her Favourite Husband
Character: Mr. Dobson
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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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: F.P. Jordan (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Mr. Wilson
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Charles Monoghan
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
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Daughter of Darkness
Title: Daughter of Darkness
Character: Smithers
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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Dancing with Crime
Title: Dancing with Crime
Character: Stage Door Keeper (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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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Man in Straw Hat
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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I Know Where I'm Going!
Title: I Know Where I'm Going!
Character: Sir Robert Bellinger
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
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Strawberry Roan
Title: Strawberry Roan
Character: Dr. Lambert
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
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They Came to a City
Title: They Came to a City
Character: Mr Cudworth
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
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Power Lines
Title: Power Lines
Character: Commentator (voice)
Released: April 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.
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Lessons from the Air
Title: Lessons from the Air
Character: Commentary
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.
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Religion and the People
Title: Religion and the People
Character: Self (Commentator)
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Character: Pozzo d Borgo
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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East Lynne on the Western Front
Title: East Lynne on the Western Front
Character: Tony Wilson
Released: July 13, 1931
Type: Movie
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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Down River
Title: Down River
Character: Blind Rudley
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
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Thread o' Scarlet
Title: Thread o' Scarlet
Character: Migsworth
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)