Ralph Truman

Ralph Truman

Born: May 7, 1900
Died: October 15, 1977
in London, England, UK

Movies for Ralph Truman...

Lady Caroline Lamb
Title: Lady Caroline Lamb
Character: Admiral
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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Nicholas and Alexandra
Title: Nicholas and Alexandra
Character: Rodzianko
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Foreign Secretary
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Reginald Crowther
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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El Cid
Title: El Cid
Character: King Ferdinand
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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Exodus
Title: Exodus
Character: Colonel
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Under Ten Flags
Title: Under Ten Flags
Character: Admiral Bensen
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Aide to Tiberius (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Sir Matthew Sprott
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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The Spaniard's Curse
Title: The Spaniard's Curse
Character: Sir Robert Wyvern
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: George Memsford
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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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Title: Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Character: Vice Admiral
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Colonel Blenkinsop
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: John Dowling
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Buchanan
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
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Tons of Trouble
Title: Tons of Trouble
Character: Inspector Bridger
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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The Black Tent
Title: The Black Tent
Character: Major Cross
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
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The Ship That Died of Shame
Title: The Ship That Died of Shame
Character: Sir Richard
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
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The Night My Number Came Up
Title: The Night My Number Came Up
Character: Wainwright
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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The Master of Ballantrae
Title: The Master of Ballantrae
Character: Clarendon
Released: August 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Vice Adm Willie Banks
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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The Golden Coach
Title: The Golden Coach
Character: Duc de Castro
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Tigellinus
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: George Merry
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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The Reluctant Widow
Title: The Reluctant Widow
Character: Scowler
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Christopher Columbus
Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Captain
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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The Interrupted Journey
Title: The Interrupted Journey
Character: Inspector Waterson
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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Eureka Stockade
Title: Eureka Stockade
Character: Gov. Hotham
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: Comber
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Monks
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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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Title: The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Character: Merryvale
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Prison Interrogator
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: Lord Mandeville
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical set during the French Revolution.
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Papworth Village Settlement
Title: Papworth Village Settlement
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papworth.
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Beware of Pity
Title: Beware of Pity
Character: Maj. Sandor Balinkay
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
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Lisbon Story
Title: Lisbon Story
Character: Police Commissionaire
Released: May 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Robertson
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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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Mountjoy - The French Herald
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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The Butler's Dilemma
Title: The Butler's Dilemma
Character: Bishop
Released: November 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
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Sabotage at Sea
Title: Sabotage at Sea
Character: Horace Chandler
Released: September 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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The Saint in London
Title: The Saint in London
Character: Kussella
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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Black Eyes
Title: Black Eyes
Character: Diner
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Sir Nathan Israel
Released: January 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
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Life of St. Paul
Title: Life of St. Paul
Character: Orderly
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Giordano
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Character: Nursing Home Doctor
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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Dinner at the Ritz
Title: Dinner at the Ritz
Character: Auctioneer
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
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Secret Lives
Title: Secret Lives
Character: Prison Guard
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: Lawrence Fuller
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
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The Marriage of Corbal
Title: The Marriage of Corbal
Character: Charles
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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Captain Bill
Title: Captain Bill
Character: Red
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: Saunders
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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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Title: The Case of Gabriel Perry
Character: Inspector White
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Title: Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Character: Sam Cohen
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
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The Perfect Flaw
Title: The Perfect Flaw
Character: Richard Drexel
Released: May 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Chief Inspector Elliot
Released: March 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
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Partners Please
Title: Partners Please
Character: CID Man
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
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The Bells
Title: The Bells
Character: Blacksmith
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.