Manning Whiley

Manning Whiley

Born: January 23, 1915
Died: January 29, 1975
in Hampstead, London, England, UK

Movies for Manning Whiley...

Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Mike Connor
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?
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Children of Chance
Title: Children of Chance
Character: Don Andrea
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Dudley Ruthyn
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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The Shop at Sly Corner
Title: The Shop at Sly Corner
Character: Corder Morris
Released: March 10, 1947
Type: Movie
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
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Teheran
Title: Teheran
Character: Paul Sherek
Released: October 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
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The Seventh Veil
Title: The Seventh Veil
Character: Dr. Irving
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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For You Alone
Title: For You Alone
Character: Max Borrow
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Raoul Sudd
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: Church
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 Dummy Talks
Title: The Dummy Talks
Character: Russell Warren
Released: October 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Title: Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Character: German
Released: December 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Bertie Gregson
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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The Saint's Vacation
Title: The Saint's Vacation
Character: Marko
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Title: The Ghost of St. Michael's
Character: Stock
Released: April 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Chimp
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: S.S. Trooper
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
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Gasbags
Title: Gasbags
Character: O.P. Colonel
Released: February 1, 1941
Type: Movie
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
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Sailors Three
Title: Sailors Three
Character: German Commdr.
Released: December 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Evangelist
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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The Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Ronnie Perryman
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Title: Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Character: The Officer
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
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Pastor Hall
Title: Pastor Hall
Character: Vogel
Released: May 28, 1940
Type: Movie
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Manager of 'Mousetrap'
Released: May 11, 1940
Type: Movie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: (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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Design for Murder
Title: Design for Murder
Character: Bentley, the student
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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Consider Your Verdict
Title: Consider Your Verdict
Character: The Prisoner
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.