Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

Born: August 6, 1900
Died: August 27, 1988
in Dublin, Ireland
Charles Farrell was born on August 6, 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Night and the City (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and The Last Appointment (1954). He was married to Babbie McManus. He died on August 27, 1988 in London, England. Not to be confused with American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990).

Movies for Charles Farrell...

Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Title: Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Character: Tramp
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
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Title: Barlow
Character: Solly Rose
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Barlow at Large began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from Softly, Softly: Taskforce in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the home office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office. This second series, rather than telling one story in serial form, as the 1971 series had, was instead ten 50-minute episodes, each with a self-contained story. In this series, Barlow was supported by Norman Comer as Detective Sergeant Rees, who had been helpful to him during the first series. He also had to deal with the political machinations of the senior civil servant Fenton. In 1974 the series was renamed Barlow and a further two series of eight episodes each followed, introducing the character of Detective Inspector Tucker, played by Derek Newark. The final episode was transmitted in February 1975. The Barlow character was seen again in the series Second Verdict in which he, along with his former colleague John Watt, looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions from history.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Title: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Character: Chauffeur
Released: May 18, 1971
Type: Movie
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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Countess Dracula
Title: Countess Dracula
Character: The Seller
Released: January 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
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The Vampire Lovers
Title: The Vampire Lovers
Character: Landlord
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: Movie
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
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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Sebastian
Title: Sebastian
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
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Title: The Sentimental Agent
Character: Isigonnis
Released: September 28, 1963
Type: TV
The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It stars Carlos Thompson as Argentinian Carlos Varela, a successful import-export agent based in London. The series ran for 13 one-hour monochrome episodes. Some of the episodes were edited into a 1962 feature film Our Man in the Caribbean.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Elmer Quire
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Straker
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Marcellin
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Operation Cupid
Title: Operation Cupid
Character: Charlie Stevens
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
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Too Young to Love
Title: Too Young to Love
Character: Waiting Room Man
Released: March 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Character: Leeman
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Hidden Homicide
Title: Hidden Homicide
Character: Mungo Peddy
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Character: Bartender
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
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The Diplomatic Corpse
Title: The Diplomatic Corpse
Character: Percy Simpson
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Manning
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Manning
Character: John Karver
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Cadeaux
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Warden
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Stolen Assignment
Title: Stolen Assignment
Character: Percy Simpson
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
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The Hornet's Nest
Title: The Hornet's Nest
Character: Posh Peterson
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
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Final Appointment
Title: Final Appointment
Character: Percy
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
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There Was a Young Lady
Title: There Was a Young Lady
Character: Arthur
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
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The Crimson Pirate
Title: The Crimson Pirate
Character: Poison Paul
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
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There Is Another Sun
Title: There Is Another Sun
Character: Simmonds
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Mickey Beer
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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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Curley
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: Jack
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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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Don Dooley
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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The Way to the Stars
Title: The Way to the Stars
Character: American Orderly
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Skipper
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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Bell-Bottom George
Title: Bell-Bottom George
Character: Jim Bennett
Released: February 7, 1944
Type: Movie
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Barry Scott
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: First Cab Driver
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Walker
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Jailbirds
Title: Jailbirds
Character: Spike Nelson
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.
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Night Journey
Title: Night Journey
Character: Dave
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
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The Rebel Son
Title: The Rebel Son
Character: Tovkatch
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
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Jericho
Title: Jericho
Character: Sergeant on Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
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Lonely Road
Title: Lonely Road
Character: Palmer
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Title: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Character: Scales
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Louis Brown
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
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Wild Boy
Title: Wild Boy
Character: Gang Member (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Milligan
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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Lucky Ladies
Title: Lucky Ladies
Character: Bookmaker
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
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Jack's the Boy
Title: Jack's the Boy
Character: Martin
Released: June 11, 1932
Type: Movie
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Title: The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Character: Funfair Patron
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
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The House Opposite
Title: The House Opposite
Character: Wharton
Released: March 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
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The Innocents of Chicago
Title: The Innocents of Chicago
Character: Smiler
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
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Looking on the Bright Side
Title: Looking on the Bright Side
Character: Tough Man in Street
Released: March 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
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Money for Nothing
Title: Money for Nothing
Character: Digger
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Williams
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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The Man at Six
Title: The Man at Six
Character: George Wollmer
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
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Creeping Shadows
Title: Creeping Shadows
Character: Chicago Joe
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.