Anthony Holles

Anthony Holles

Born: January 17, 1901
Died: March 5, 1950
in Fulham, London, England, UK

Movies for Anthony Holles...

Traveller's Joy
Title: Traveller's Joy
Character: Head Waiter
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
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The Rocking Horse Winner
Title: The Rocking Horse Winner
Character: Bowler Hat
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.
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The Magic Bow
Title: The Magic Bow
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Wade
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Title: They Knew Mr. Knight
Character: Station Master
Released: March 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Boatman
Released: December 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Egham
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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A Canterbury Tale
Title: A Canterbury Tale
Character: Sergt. Bassett
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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English Without Tears
Title: English Without Tears
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
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It's in the Bag
Title: It's in the Bag
Character: Costumier
Released: February 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Hotel Hairdresser
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
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Warn That Man
Title: Warn That Man
Character: Waiter
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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Old Mother Riley Overseas
Title: Old Mother Riley Overseas
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Mrs. Riley is tricked out of her license for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
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Tomorrow We Live
Title: Tomorrow We Live
Character: Stationmaster
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
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Thursday's Child
Title: Thursday's Child
Character: Roy Todd
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
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The Lady from Lisbon
Title: The Lady from Lisbon
Character: Tony Anzoni
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting. But bumbling Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and multiple copies of the artwork soon confound her attempts at espionage.
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Front Line Kids
Title: Front Line Kids
Character: Hotelier
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
Character: Chief of Police
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
Character: Francois
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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Blind Folly
Title: Blind Folly
Character: Louis
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
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The Missing People
Title: The Missing People
Character: Ernest Bronstone
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Murray
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
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His Lordship Regrets
Title: His Lordship Regrets
Character: Guy Reading
Released: October 31, 1938
Type: Movie
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Title: Weddings Are Wonderful
Character: Adolph
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Brand
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: Mario
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
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Millions
Title: Millions
Character: Billy Todd
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
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Smash and Grab
Title: Smash and Grab
Character: Polino
Released: September 20, 1937
Type: Movie
John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: John Grant
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Dutchman
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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Let's Make a Night of It
Title: Let's Make a Night of It
Character: Head Waiter
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Glamorous Night
Title: Glamorous Night
Character: Maestro
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
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The Sky’s the Limit
Title: The Sky’s the Limit
Character: Mario
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Clake
Released: December 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: Mechanic (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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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: Swalescliffe
Released: August 12, 1936
Type: Movie
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Reception Clerk
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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Things to Come
Title: Things to Come
Character: Simon Burton (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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Public Nuisance No. 1
Title: Public Nuisance No. 1
Character: Head Waiter
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Store Manager
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Gentlemen's Agreement
Title: Gentlemen's Agreement
Character: Bill Bentley
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
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Something Always Happens
Title: Something Always Happens
Character: Tony
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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The Green Pack
Title: The Green Pack
Character: Inspector Aguilar
Released: October 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Actor At Drury Lane
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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Borrowed Clothes
Title: Borrowed Clothes
Character: Gilbert Pinkley
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Lady Torrent attempts to sell some of her best Parisian gowns to get back into her husband's good books. Confusion ensues following a misunderstanding over an advertisement.
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Cash
Title: Cash
Character: Inspector
Released: October 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
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That's a Good Girl
Title: That's a Good Girl
Character: Canzone
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
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Loyalties
Title: Loyalties
Character: Ricardos
Released: July 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
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Britannia of Billingsgate
Title: Britannia of Billingsgate
Character: Guidobaldi
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
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The Midshipmaid
Title: The Midshipmaid
Character: Lt. Kingsford
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: The Padre
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
'Broke major attends reunion and gives last pound to help corporal.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Watch Beverly
Title: Watch Beverly
Character: Arthur Briden
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A British diplomat becomes entangled with a ring of international criminals.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Silvono
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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Hotel Splendide
Title: Hotel Splendide
Character: 'Mrs.LeGrange'
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when he sees it is a quiet place with few permanent residents. Gentleman Charlie, a jewel thief arrives after a long spell in prison expecting to be able to dig up the pearls he had buried - only to find the hotel has been built on the site.
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Life Goes On
Title: Life Goes On
Character: John Collis
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
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Once bitten
Title: Once bitten
Character: Legros
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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The Missing Rembrandt
Title: The Missing Rembrandt
Character: Marquess de Chaminade
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
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The Star Reporter
Title: The Star Reporter
Character: Bonzo
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to Lady Susan Loman in the hope of witnessing high-society goings-on which he can use in a feature article he is planning.