Charles Paton

Charles Paton

Born: July 31, 1874
Died: April 10, 1970

Movies for Charles Paton...

Fortune in Diamonds
Title: Fortune in Diamonds
Character: Barman
Released: March 7, 1951
Type: Movie
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Registrar
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Once a Sinner
Title: Once a Sinner
Character: Mr. Lamb
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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The Spider and the Fly
Title: The Spider and the Fly
Character: Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Title: Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Character: Mr. Dickens, the Grocer
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A private detective (Bruce Lester) and an aspiring actress (Hy Hazell) join forces to thwart a man's scheme to murder his wealthy--and much older--wife. British thriller, directed by Francis Searle.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietor
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Gardener
Released: May 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Character: uncredited
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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For Them That Trespass
Title: For Them That Trespass
Released: April 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Cardboard Cavalier
Title: Cardboard Cavalier
Character: Mine Host
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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Love in Waiting
Title: Love in Waiting
Character: Old Man
Released: October 11, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
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Miranda
Title: Miranda
Character: On the Kiosk (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1948
Type: Movie
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Guest at Ball (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Bedelia
Title: Bedelia
Character: Railway Clerk
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Councillor (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Mayor
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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Strawberry Roan
Title: Strawberry Roan
Character: Auctioneer's Assistant (uncredited)
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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A Canterbury Tale
Title: A Canterbury Tale
Character: Ernie Brooks
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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Give Us the Moon
Title: Give Us the Moon
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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The Demi-Paradise
Title: The Demi-Paradise
Character: Mr. Bishop
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
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The Goose Steps Out
Title: The Goose Steps Out
Character: Passenger Arrested on Train
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Steinhof
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Title: Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Released: June 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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The Door with Seven Locks
Title: The Door with Seven Locks
Character: Handwriting Expert (Uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Chemist (Uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Simion
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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The Body Vanished
Title: The Body Vanished
Character: Mr. Briggs
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
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The Saint in London
Title: The Saint in London
Character: Tobacco Shop Proprietor
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Platform Speaker (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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Inspector Hornleigh
Title: Inspector Hornleigh
Character: Auction Bidder
Released: March 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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Men Without Honour
Title: Men Without Honour
Character: Rev. Fanshawe
Released: January 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Varro
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
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The Ware Case
Title: The Ware Case
Character: Foreman of the Jury
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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Weddings Are Wonderful
Title: Weddings Are Wonderful
Character: Minor role
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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Old Mother Riley
Title: Old Mother Riley
Character: Family Solicitor
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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Museum Mystery
Title: Museum Mystery
Character: Clutters
Released: April 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator.
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Storm in a Teacup
Title: Storm in a Teacup
Character: Guest at Official Dinner (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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The Dominant Sex
Title: The Dominant Sex
Character: Mr. Webster
Released: January 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Burgher at Auction (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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The Marriage of Corbal
Title: The Marriage of Corbal
Character: French Commandant
Released: May 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
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When Knights Were Bold
Title: When Knights Were Bold
Character: The Mayor
Released: February 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
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Jury's Evidence
Title: Jury's Evidence
Character: Crowther
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Man Holding Dogs (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Royal Cavalcade
Title: Royal Cavalcade
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
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Girls Will Be Boys
Title: Girls Will Be Boys
Character: Sanders
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
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Freedom of the Seas
Title: Freedom of the Seas
Character: Gamp
Released: June 12, 1934
Type: Movie
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeble second-best, or will active service make a man of him?
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This Acting Business
Title: This Acting Business
Character: Ward
Released: December 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
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The Love Nest
Title: The Love Nest
Character: Pa
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.
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The Ghost Camera
Title: The Ghost Camera
Character: Farmer
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
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Bachelor's Baby
Title: Bachelor's Baby
Character: Mr. Ponder
Released: August 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.
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Love on Wheels
Title: Love on Wheels
Character: Bus Passenger
Released: July 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Josser Joins the Navy
Title: Josser Joins the Navy
Character: Professor Black
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
'Hall porter forced to join Navy while tracking spies.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Third String
Title: The Third String
Character: Sam Small
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
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The Other Mrs. Phipps
Title: The Other Mrs. Phipps
Character: Jem
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Rynox
Title: Rynox
Character: Samuel Faraday Rickforth
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
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The Great Gay Road
Title: The Great Gay Road
Character: Innkeeper
Released: October 21, 1931
Type: Movie
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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The Girl in the Night
Title: The Girl in the Night
Character: Prof. Winthrop
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Clockwinder
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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My Wife's Family
Title: My Wife's Family
Character: Noah Nagg
Released: June 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
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Stepping Stones
Title: Stepping Stones
Character: Suger Daddy
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead
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Contraband Love
Title: Contraband Love
Character: Jude Sterling
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Lyons Mail
Title: The Lyons Mail
Character: George Didier
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A mystery film directed by Arthur Maude
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What a Night!
Title: What a Night!
Character: Grindle
Released: March 13, 1931
Type: Movie
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
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The Sleeping Cardinal
Title: The Sleeping Cardinal
Character: J.J. Godfrey
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
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A Sister to Assist 'Er
Title: A Sister to Assist 'Er
Character: Thistlethwaite
Released: March 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
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The W Plan
Title: The W Plan
Character: Defence Counsel
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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The Feather
Title: The Feather
Character: Professor Vivian
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Mr. White
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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Piccadilly
Title: Piccadilly
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.