Tom Gill

Tom Gill

Born: July 26, 1916
Died: July 22, 1971
in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tyneside, England, UK

Movies for Tom Gill...

Journey to Murder
Title: Journey to Murder
Character: Golfer
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing Bottle (1969).
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For Men Only
Title: For Men Only
Character: Father
Released: August 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Freddie Horne loves his job working for a trendy women’s fashion magazine, but his pretty blonde fiancée is getting jealous. To smooth things over Freddie takes a job with the Puritan Magazine Group, an organisation hell-bent on promoting moral reform and ‘family values’. However, the caddish chief executive Miles Fanthorpe is not all he seems. Fanthorpe’s country house is actually full of scantily-clad young women, and he is secretly publishing a girlie magazine!
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The Night Caller
Title: The Night Caller
Character: Police Commissioner's secretary
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Veterinarian
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Smokescreen
Title: Smokescreen
Character: Reception Clerk
Released: January 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
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The Iron Maiden
Title: The Iron Maiden
Character: Rally Steward
Released: June 7, 1963
Type: Movie
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
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Echo of Diana
Title: Echo of Diana
Character: Photographer
Released: May 1, 1963
Type: Movie
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
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Watch It, Sailor!
Title: Watch It, Sailor!
Character: Photographer
Released: August 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
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Double Bunk
Title: Double Bunk
Character: Customs Officer (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1961
Type: Movie
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
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Make Mine a Million
Title: Make Mine a Million
Character: Mr. Langtree
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
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Further Up the Creek
Title: Further Up the Creek
Character: Monsieur Philippe
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
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Up the Creek
Title: Up the Creek
Character: Flag Lieutenant
Released: May 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
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The Naked Truth
Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Carry on Admiral
Title: Carry on Admiral
Character: Petty Officer
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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Stranger in Town
Title: Stranger in Town
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Friend of Critic
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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Behind the Headlines
Title: Behind the Headlines
Character: Creloch
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
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Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: Business Man on Plane
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Title: Fun at St. Fanny's
Character: Constable
Released: December 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
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Simon and Laura
Title: Simon and Laura
Character: TV Producer
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Foreign Office Official
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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The Reluctant Bride
Title: The Reluctant Bride
Character: Macarthy
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
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Forbidden Cargo
Title: Forbidden Cargo
Character: Montana Hotel Receptionist
Released: May 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Shop Assistant
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The Limping Man
Title: The Limping Man
Character: Stage Manager
Released: December 11, 1953
Type: Movie
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
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Love in Pawn
Title: Love in Pawn
Character: Fred Pollock
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation. Eventually, the husband arrives back at the houseboat just in time to prevent the wife from leaving him.
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The Steel Key
Title: The Steel Key
Character: Hotel Receptionist
Released: May 1, 1953
Type: Movie
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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Black Orchid
Title: Black Orchid
Character: Travel Agent Clerk
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
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No Highway
Title: No Highway
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
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Something in the City
Title: Something in the City
Character: Richard
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
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The First Gentleman
Title: The First Gentleman
Character: Prince William
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
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Design for Murder
Title: Design for Murder
Character: One of Grierson's Friends
Released: March 27, 1939
Type: Movie
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
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This Man Is News
Title: This Man Is News
Character: Peter Brown
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
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The High Command
Title: The High Command
Character: Daunt
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Laburnum Grove
Title: Laburnum Grove
Character: Bit Part
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Albert Perkins
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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Midshipman Easy
Title: Midshipman Easy
Character: Gascoine
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.