Edmund Willard

Edmund Willard

Born: December 18, 1884
Died: October 6, 1956
in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Movies for Edmund Willard...

The Merry Christmas
Title: The Merry Christmas
Character: Marley's Ghost
Released: December 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Concierge
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Cardboard Cavalier
Title: Cardboard Cavalier
Character: Oliver Cromwell
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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Helter Skelter
Title: Helter Skelter
Character: Ezekial
Released: January 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Robert Napier
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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Pastor Hall
Title: Pastor Hall
Character: Freundlich
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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Hoots Mon
Title: Hoots Mon
Character: Sandy McBride
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Mr. Ramage
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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The Insect Play
Title: The Insect Play
Character: The Tranp
Released: May 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
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Smash and Grab
Title: Smash and Grab
Character: Cappellano
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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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: General Berlin of German Intelligence
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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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Pvt. Withers
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Van Zeeland
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Royal Eagle
Title: Royal Eagle
Character: Burnock
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
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King of the Damned
Title: King of the Damned
Character: The Greek
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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Moscow Nights
Title: Moscow Nights
Character: Officer of Prosecution
Released: November 5, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Hoffman
Released: May 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Title: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Character: Toby Bilson
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Character: Marshal Ney
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The 1002nd Night
Title: The 1002nd Night
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.
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The Crooked Lady
Title: The Crooked Lady
Character: Joseph Garstin
Released: March 16, 1932
Type: Movie
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
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Rynox
Title: Rynox
Character: Captain Inigo 'Glassy' James
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
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A Night in Montmartre
Title: A Night in Montmartre
Character: Alexandre
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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Cape Forlorn
Title: Cape Forlorn
Character: Henry Cass
Released: January 8, 1931
Type: Movie
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...