Alfred Drayton

Alfred Drayton

Born: November 1, 1881
Died: April 26, 1949
in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Movies for Alfred Drayton...

Things Happen at Night
Title: Things Happen at Night
Character: Wilfred Prescott
Released: November 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Wackford Squeers
Released: March 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Title: They Knew Mr. Knight
Character: Mr. Lawrence Knight
Released: March 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Joseph Pike
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Women Aren't Angels
Title: Women Aren't Angels
Character: Alfred Bandle
Released: January 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
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Banana Ridge
Title: Banana Ridge
Character: Digby Pound
Released: April 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
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The Big Blockade
Title: The Big Blockade
Character: Direktor
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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So This Is London
Title: So This Is London
Character: Lord Worthing
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
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A Spot of Bother
Title: A Spot of Bother
Character: Christopher Watney
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is entrusted with overseeing the investment, but is soon out of his depth as the money is swept up in a brandy and silk underwear smuggling racket.
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Title: Aren't Men Beasts!
Character: Thomas Potter
Released: January 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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Tropical Trouble
Title: Tropical Trouble
Character: Sir Monagu Thumpeter
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A series of misunderstanding leads to a colonial governor's wife suspecting him of an affair with his assistant.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: Insp. Parr
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
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First a Girl
Title: First a Girl
Character: Mr. McLintock
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Belfer
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Sergeant Bull
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Oh, Daddy!
Title: Oh, Daddy!
Character: Uncle Samson
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Count Brandt
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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Radio Parade of 1935
Title: Radio Parade of 1935
Character: Carl Graham
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.
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Lady in Danger
Title: Lady in Danger
Character: Quill
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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Red Ensign
Title: Red Ensign
Character: Manning
Released: June 17, 1934
Type: Movie
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Jack Ahoy
Title: Jack Ahoy
Character: Adm. Fraser
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: The Detective
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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Falling for You
Title: Falling for You
Character: News Editor
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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It's a Boy
Title: It's a Boy
Character: Eustace Bogle
Released: June 6, 1933
Type: Movie
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
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The Little Damozel
Title: The Little Damozel
Character: Walter Angel
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
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Lord Babs
Title: Lord Babs
Character: Ambrose Parker
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
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The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: John Dory
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
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The Happy Ending
Title: The Happy Ending
Character: Life of the party
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
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Brown Sugar
Title: Brown Sugar
Character: Edmondson
Released: April 21, 1931
Type: Movie
The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Lew Friedman
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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The W Plan
Title: The W Plan
Character: Prosecutor
Released: February 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: A Scandal in Bohemia
Character: King Wilhelm von Ormstein
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.