Edward Ashley

Edward Ashley

Born: August 12, 1904
Died: May 5, 2000
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Edward Montague Hussey Cooper was an actor descended from an English family but born in Australia. Known by his professional name Edward Ashley (to avoid confusion with a fellow actor Edward Cooper), Cooper performed in 60 films for Metro Goldwyn Mayer including Pride and Prejudice, in which he played George Wickham. He made a number of films in the United Kingdom before moving to California in 1940, where his first big role was as George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice. After this, his career consisted of a large number of mainly supporting roles until 1988, including a recurring character in the Maverick television series, "Nobby Ned Wingate", in the late 1950s.

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Waxwork
Title: Waxwork
Character: Professor Sutherland
Released: June 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.
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Beyond the Next Mountain
Title: Beyond the Next Mountain
Character: Governor
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Second Butler
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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The Stronger
Title: The Stronger
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 
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Herbie Rides Again
Title: Herbie Rides Again
Character: Announcer at Chicken Race
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
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King Rat
Title: King Rat
Character: Prouty
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Darrell Stanton
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Darby's Rangers
Title: Darby's Rangers
Character: Lt. Dave Manson
Released: February 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Nobby Ned Wingate
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: The Gale Storm Show
Character: Michael
Released: September 29, 1956
Type: TV
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
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The Court Jester
Title: The Court Jester
Character: Black Fox
Released: December 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
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Elephant Walk
Title: Elephant Walk
Character: Planter Gordon Gregory
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
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El Alaméin
Title: El Alaméin
Character: Capt. Harbison
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.
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Macao
Title: Macao
Character: Martin Stewart
Released: April 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Tarzan's Peril
Title: Tarzan's Peril
Character: Conners
Released: March 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Title: Tarzan and the Mermaids
Character: Commissioner
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Dr. L.E. Thal
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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The Other Love
Title: The Other Love
Character: Richard Shelton
Released: May 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Keith Vincent
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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The Madonna's Secret
Title: The Madonna's Secret
Character: John Earl
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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Gay Blades
Title: Gay Blades
Character: Ted Brinker
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in "The Behemoth" but he would prefer she quit her job and become his wife.
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
Title: Love, Honor and Goodbye
Character: William Baxter
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
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The Black Swan
Title: The Black Swan
Character: Roger Ingram (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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You're Telling Me
Title: You're Telling Me
Character: Fred Curtis
Released: May 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
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Strange Testament
Title: Strange Testament
Character: Julian Poydras
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later life.
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Come Live with Me
Title: Come Live with Me
Character: Arnold Stafford
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Maisie Was a Lady
Title: Maisie Was a Lady
Character: Link Phillips
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Al Posna
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Harry Daventry
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Cortland Grand
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Mr. George Wickham
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
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Spies of the Air
Title: Spies of the Air
Character: Stuart
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
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The Villiers Diamond
Title: The Villiers Diamond
Character: Capt. Dawson
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
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Saturday Night Revue
Title: Saturday Night Revue
Character: Duke O'Brien
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Sylvano
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
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The Beggar Student
Title: The Beggar Student
Character: Nicki
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Simultaneously filmed English language version of a period operetta, in which a Polish noblewoman is romantically linked with a revolutionary student activist.