Peter Bull

Peter Bull

Born: March 21, 1912
Died: May 20, 1984
in London, England, UK
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Peter Cecil Bull, DSC (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British character actor.

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Movies for Peter Bull...

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Title: Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein.
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Yellowbeard
Title: Yellowbeard
Character: Queen Anne
Released: June 24, 1983
Type: Movie
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
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Group Madness
Title: Group Madness
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Alonso, the King of Naples
Released: September 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
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The Light Princess
Title: The Light Princess
Character: Fat Frog (voice)
Released: December 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Title: Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
Character: August Visitor
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
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The Brute
Title: The Brute
Character: Housemaster
Released: March 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diane to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
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Joseph Andrews
Title: Joseph Andrews
Character: Sir Thomas Booby
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Wemmick
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Title: Lady Caroline Lamb
Character: Minister
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Character: Duchess
Released: November 20, 1972
Type: Movie
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
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Up the Front
Title: Up the Front
Character: Von Kobler
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.
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Girl Stroke Boy
Title: Girl Stroke Boy
Character: Peter Hovendon
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
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The Executioner
Title: The Executioner
Character: Butterfield
Released: September 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
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Lock Up Your Daughters
Title: Lock Up Your Daughters
Character: Bull
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
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Doctor Dolittle
Title: Doctor Dolittle
Character: General Bellowes
Released: December 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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You Must Be Joking
Title: You Must Be Joking
Character: Ferocious Man in Library
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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Licensed to Kill
Title: Licensed to Kill
Character: Masterman
Released: July 5, 1965
Type: Movie
An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
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The Intelligence Men
Title: The Intelligence Men
Character: Philippe
Released: April 13, 1965
Type: Movie
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Character: Botschafter De Sadesky
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
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The Old Dark House
Title: The Old Dark House
Character: Caspar Femm / Jasper Femm
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Thwackum
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Client
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Character: Manager of Art Gallery, Paris
Released: March 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
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Follow That Man
Title: Follow That Man
Character: Gustav
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Title: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Character: Lord Bermogg
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Aristide
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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Tom Thumb
Title: Tom Thumb
Character: Town Crier
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
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The Green Man
Title: The Green Man
Character: General Niva
Released: December 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Character: Mr. Creakle
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Scientist
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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Footsteps in the Fog
Title: Footsteps in the Fog
Character: Brasher
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Beau Brummell
Title: Beau Brummell
Character: Mr. Fox
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency …
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The Captain's Paradise
Title: The Captain's Paradise
Character: Kalikan firing-squad officer
Released: September 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Flying Officer
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Strange Stories
Title: Strange Stories
Character: Captain Breen ('Strange Journey')
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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Salute the Toff
Title: Salute the Toff
Character: Lorne
Released: December 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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The African Queen
Title: The African Queen
Character: Captain of Louisa
Released: January 7, 1952
Type: Movie
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: First Businessman / Narrator
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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The Six Men
Title: The Six Men
Character: The Chief
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The ‘Six Men’ are a gang of six criminals that Scotland Yard is unable to pin a charge against even though they are positive of the identities.
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Smart Alec
Title: Smart Alec
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
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I'll Get You for This
Title: I'll Get You for This
Character: Hans
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
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Cardboard Cavalier
Title: Cardboard Cavalier
Character: Mosspot
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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Woman Hater
Title: Woman Hater
Character: Mr. Fletcher
Released: October 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: Prince George Louis
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Landlord of 'Three Cripples'
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Fidgity Phil
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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The Turners of Prospect Road
Title: The Turners of Prospect Road
Character: J.G. Clarkson
Released: June 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
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Quiet Wedding
Title: Quiet Wedding
Character: Tenor
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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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Third Brother Grimm
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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Dead Man's Shoes
Title: Dead Man's Shoes
Character: Defense Counsel
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
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Young Man's Fancy
Title: Young Man's Fancy
Character: French Soldier (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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The Ware Case
Title: The Ware Case
Character: Eustace Ede
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Gamin (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Non-Stop New York
Title: Non-Stop New York
Character: Spurgeon
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: William
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
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The Beloved Vagabond
Title: The Beloved Vagabond
Character: Artist in bar
Released: August 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!