Kathleen Harrison

Kathleen Harrison

Born: February 22, 1892
Died: December 7, 1995
in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema. Her place was always firmly below stairs – a cook perhaps, or a cleaning lady often answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble was just around the corner.

She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in Lancashire. She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for some time. On her return to Britain, she made her stage debut in 1926 in “The Constant Flirt”. Her first major film role was in 1931 in “Hobson’s Choice”. Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in Emlyn Williams “Night Must Fall” in 1937 as a maid (naturally). She achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett family. In the mid 1960′s she starred in a very popular television series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools. She died in 1995 at the age of 103.

Movies for Kathleen Harrison...

Lethal Weapon
Title: Lethal Weapon
Character: Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
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The London Connection
Title: The London Connection
Character: Elderly Lady
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
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Title: Danger UXB
Character: Mrs. Dollery
Released: January 8, 1979
Type: TV
Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz has been made a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The programme was titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London. The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television.
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Title: Our Mutual Friend
Character: Mrs. Henrietta Boffin
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: TV
Based on the Dickens novel, tells the story of a young man who's inherited fortune hangs on his marriage to a woman he's never met. But many have their eyes on his fortune and scheme to claim it; placing him in a poor situation where he must fight for this woman as a mere secretary.
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Lock Up Your Daughters
Title: Lock Up Your Daughters
Character: Lady Clumsey
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
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Title: Mrs Thursday
Released: March 15, 1966
Type: TV
Mrs Thursday is a British comedy-drama produced by Associated Television, devised by Lord Ted Willis and featured scripts by Jack Rosenthal. It stars veteran British actress Kathleen Harrison as Alice Thursday, a Cockney cleaning lady who inherits £10 million and the controlling interest in a multinational company upon the death of her employer. Hugh Manning played Richard Hunter, is Mrs Thursday's butler, business adviser and confidant.
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Title: Martin Chuzzlewit
Released: January 19, 1964
Type: TV
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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West 11
Title: West 11
Character: Mrs. Beckett
Released: October 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
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The Fast Lady
Title: The Fast Lady
Character: Mrs. Staggers
Released: December 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: Mrs. Cooksley
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Alive and Kicking
Title: Alive and Kicking
Character: Rosie
Released: July 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
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A Cry from the Streets
Title: A Cry from the Streets
Character: Mrs. Farrer
Released: August 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
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The Big Money
Title: The Big Money
Character: Mrs Frith
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Mme. Abou
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Home and Away
Title: Home and Away
Character: Elsie Knowles
Released: September 4, 1956
Type: Movie
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Miss Gilly
Released: August 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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All for Mary
Title: All for Mary
Character: Nannie Cartwright
Released: December 21, 1955
Type: Movie
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
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Cast a Dark Shadow
Title: Cast a Dark Shadow
Character: Emmie
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Annie Yeo
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
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Lilacs in the Spring
Title: Lilacs in the Spring
Character: Kate
Released: December 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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The Dog and the Diamonds
Title: The Dog and the Diamonds
Character: Mrs. Fossett
Released: November 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
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Turn the Key Softly
Title: Turn the Key Softly
Character: Granny Quilliam
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Rachel Wardle
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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The Happy Family
Title: The Happy Family
Character: Lillian Lord
Released: March 30, 1952
Type: Movie
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Mother in Family Group
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Mrs. Dilber
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Released: October 10, 1950
Type: Movie
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Mrs. McCabe
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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Double Confession
Title: Double Confession
Character: Kate
Released: April 30, 1950
Type: Movie
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
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Golden Arrow
Title: Golden Arrow
Character: Isobel
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Mona's Mother
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
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Now Barabbas
Title: Now Barabbas
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: May 24, 1949
Type: Movie
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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The Huggetts Abroad
Title: The Huggetts Abroad
Character: Ethel Huggett
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Ethel Huggett
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Ethel Huggett
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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The Winslow Boy
Title: The Winslow Boy
Character: Violet
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs Sowerberry
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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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Ethel Brawn
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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Holiday Camp
Title: Holiday Camp
Character: Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Released: August 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Title: The Shop at Sly Corner
Character: Mrs. Catt
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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Temptation Harbour
Title: Temptation Harbour
Character: Mabel Slater
Released: February 27, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Florrie
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
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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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Pub Customer
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Mrs. Bardell
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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Waterloo Road
Title: Waterloo Road
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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It Happened One Sunday
Title: It Happened One Sunday
Character: Mrs. Purkiss
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
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The New Lot
Title: The New Lot
Character: Keith's Mother
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Amelia Peabody
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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In Which We Serve
Title: In Which We Serve
Character: Mrs. Blake
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Letter from Home
Title: Letter from Home
Character: Ethel
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.
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I Thank You
Title: I Thank You
Character: Kathleen
Released: October 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
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Once a Crook
Title: Once a Crook
Character: Auntie
Released: August 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
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Major Barbara
Title: Major Barbara
Character: Mrs. Price
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
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The Ghost Train
Title: The Ghost Train
Character: Miss Bourne
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
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A Call for Arms!
Title: A Call for Arms!
Character: Mrs. James
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
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The Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Mrs. Schifan
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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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Bit Role
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
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Girl in the News
Title: Girl in the News
Character: Cook
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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They Came by Night
Title: They Came by Night
Character: Mrs. Lightbody
Released: March 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
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Salvage with a Smile
Title: Salvage with a Smile
Character: Housekeeper
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Penelope
Released: September 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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Discoveries
Title: Discoveries
Character: Kitchen Maid
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Carroll Levis brings newly discovered talent to the screen.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Mrs. Coates
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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Convict 99
Title: Convict 99
Character: Mabel
Released: September 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Parlour Maid
Released: May 2, 1938
Type: Movie
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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Bank Holiday
Title: Bank Holiday
Character: May
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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Wanted!
Title: Wanted!
Character: Belinda
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
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Night Must Fall
Title: Night Must Fall
Character: Emily Terence
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Title: Aren't Men Beasts!
Character: Annie
Released: January 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: Confused Voter
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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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Character: Mrs. Lossy
Released: May 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
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Jury's Evidence
Title: Jury's Evidence
Character: Secretary
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Dandy Dick
Title: Dandy Dick
Character: Jane (the Maid)
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Agnes Carter
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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What Happened Then?
Title: What Happened Then?
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
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The Ghoul
Title: The Ghoul
Character: Kaney
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Martha
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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Aren't We All?
Title: Aren't We All?
Character: Bit Role
Released: March 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Ada Figgins
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
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Title: NBC Experiment in Television
Character: voice
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long anthology series showcased different actors, stories and creative talent each week.