Roger Maxwell

Roger Maxwell

Born: January 1, 1900
Died: November 24, 1971
in London, England, UK

Movies for Roger Maxwell...

Dad's Army
Title: Dad's Army
Character: Peppery Old Gent
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Title: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Character: Party Chairman
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: Beef-Faced Colonel
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Angry Silence
Title: The Angry Silence
Character: Collins
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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A Touch of Larceny
Title: A Touch of Larceny
Character: Club Member
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Major
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
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Colonel March Investigates
Title: Colonel March Investigates
Character: Maj. Rodman
Released: July 1, 1953
Type: Movie
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
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Deadly Nightshade
Title: Deadly Nightshade
Character: Col. Hector Smythe
Released: March 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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Song of Paris
Title: Song of Paris
Character: Weldon
Released: February 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
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Girdle of Gold
Title: Girdle of Gold
Character: Chairman of Bench
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.
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Night Was Our Friend
Title: Night Was Our Friend
Character: Colonel
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
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Ha'penny Breeze
Title: Ha'penny Breeze
Character: Mr. Simmonds
Released: December 30, 1950
Type: Movie
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yacht race. Winning will mean orders for new boats and life for the village.
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Save a Little Sunshine
Title: Save a Little Sunshine
Character: Hector Stanley
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
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The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands
Title: The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands
Released: October 26, 1927
Type: Movie
The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.