Charles Victor

Charles Victor

Born: February 9, 1896
Died: December 23, 1965
in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

Movies for Charles Victor...

The Man Without Papers
Title: The Man Without Papers
Character: Inspector Dumphy
Released: June 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
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The Prince and the Showgirl
Title: The Prince and the Showgirl
Character: Theatre Manager
Released: June 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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There's Always a Thursday
Title: There's Always a Thursday
Character: George Potter
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
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Tiger in the Smoke
Title: Tiger in the Smoke
Character: Will
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Farmer Gilbert
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
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Home and Away
Title: Home and Away
Character: Ted Groves
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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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
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Charley Moon
Title: Charley Moon
Character: Miller Moon
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
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The Extra Day
Title: The Extra Day
Character: Bert
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
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Dial 999
Title: Dial 999
Character: Tom Smithers
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Character: Lumm
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
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Police Dog
Title: Police Dog
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.
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The Embezzler
Title: The Embezzler
Character: Henry Paulson
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Fred
Released: June 20, 1954
Type: Movie
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
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The Rainbow Jacket
Title: The Rainbow Jacket
Character: Mr Voss
Released: May 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
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Dragon's Gold
Title: Dragon's Gold
Character: Howard Montgomery
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatched to China to investigate the disappearance of 7M worth of gold.
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The Love Lottery
Title: The Love Lottery
Character: Jennings
Released: January 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Mr. Elder
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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The Girl on the Pier
Title: The Girl on the Pier
Character: Inspector Chubb
Released: November 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Sometimes listed as a horror film, the British Girl on the Pier is a Spartan little melodrama starring the alluring Veronica Hurst as the title character. The wife of wax museum curator Campbell Singer, Hurst carries on with Singer's partner Ron Randell. Killing Randell, the cuckolded husband tries to hide the body among his waxworks. The police eventually catch on when Singer proves too clever for his own good. Girl on the Pier doesn't pretend to be a classic; on its own terms, it's an agreeable 65 minutes out of your life.
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The Saint's Return
Title: The Saint's Return
Character: Chief Insp. Claud Teal
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
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The Steel Lady
Title: The Steel Lady
Character: Sanderson's Radio Man
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
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Run for the Hills
Title: Run for the Hills
Character: Craig
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
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Port Sinister
Title: Port Sinister
Character: Lieutenant
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: F.W. Muller
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Appointment in London
Title: Appointment in London
Character: Dobbie
Released: February 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
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Those People Next Door
Title: Those People Next Door
Character: Joe Higgins
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother, Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off, as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana s offer of money, Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: Inspector Wembury
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Mr. Topham
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: 1st Reporter
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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The Frightened Man
Title: The Frightened Man
Character: Mr. Rosselli
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Industry Man
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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Calling Bulldog Drummond
Title: Calling Bulldog Drummond
Character: Inspector McIver
Released: July 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Encore
Title: Encore
Character: Mr. Bateman
Released: June 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Sam Fisher
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Title: The Elusive Pimpernel
Character: Colonel Winterbotham
Released: November 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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The Woman in Question
Title: The Woman in Question
Character: Albert Pollard
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Bill
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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The Cure for Love
Title: The Cure for Love
Character: Henry Lancaster
Released: December 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
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Landfall
Title: Landfall
Character: Mona's Father
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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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Mr. Hall
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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The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: John Dory
Released: July 5, 1948
Type: Movie
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
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Broken Journey
Title: Broken Journey
Character: Harry Gunn
Released: April 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
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Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: Mr. O'Connell's Assistant
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Green Fingers
Title: Green Fingers
Character: Joe Mansel
Released: June 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
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Fear in the Night
Title: Fear in the Night
Character: Captain Warner
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
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Temptation Harbour
Title: Temptation Harbour
Character: George Gowshall
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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While the Sun Shines
Title: While the Sun Shines
Character: Tube Train Conductor
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
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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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This Man Is Mine
Title: This Man Is Mine
Character: Hijacker
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Danny Collier
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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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: 1st Porter
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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The Rake's Progress
Title: The Rake's Progress
Character: Old Sweat
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
Title: Hollywood Victory Caravan
Character: Charles Victor
Released: September 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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The Way to the Stars
Title: The Way to the Stars
Character: Corporal Fitter
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Bourdille
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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It Happened One Sunday
Title: It Happened One Sunday
Character: Frisco Kid
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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Soldier, Sailor
Title: Soldier, Sailor
Character: Tachy
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
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San Demetrio London
Title: San Demetrio London
Character: Deckhand
Released: December 7, 1943
Type: Movie
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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My Learned Friend
Title: My Learned Friend
Character: 'Safety' Wilson
Released: October 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
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Escape to Danger
Title: Escape to Danger
Character: Petty Officer Flanagan
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Pub Owner
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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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Sergeant
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
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The Bells Go Down
Title: The Bells Go Down
Character: Bill - Dunkirk Survivor (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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The Silver Fleet
Title: The Silver Fleet
Character: Bastiaan Peters
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
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Squadron Leader X
Title: Squadron Leader X
Character: Marks
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
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The Peterville Diamond
Title: The Peterville Diamond
Character: Dan
Released: January 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
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The Lady from Lisbon
Title: The Lady from Lisbon
Character: Knoller
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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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Postmaster
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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The Foreman Went to France
Title: The Foreman Went to France
Character: Aircraft Spotter
Released: June 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Neutral Seaman - Irish Joe
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Burglar
Released: June 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
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The Missing Million
Title: The Missing Million
Character: Nobb Knowles
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
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The Saint Meets the Tiger
Title: The Saint Meets the Tiger
Character: Bittle
Released: December 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
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49th Parallel
Title: 49th Parallel
Character: Andreas
Released: November 24, 1941
Type: Movie
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: MacDermott
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Tim Grogan
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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This England
Title: This England
Character: Josiah Much
Released: July 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
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East of Piccadilly
Title: East of Piccadilly
Character: Editor
Released: June 23, 1941
Type: Movie
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
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Major Barbara
Title: Major Barbara
Character: Bilton (uncredited)
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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Old Mother Riley in Business
Title: Old Mother Riley in Business
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Title: Old Mother Riley in Society
Character: Sir John Morgan
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Hendrick
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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Laugh It Off
Title: Laugh It Off
Character: Colonel
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.
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Laugh It Off
Title: Laugh It Off
Character: General
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.
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Hell's Cargo
Title: Hell's Cargo
Character: Mr. Martin
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
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Where's That Fire
Title: Where's That Fire
Character: Garage Owner
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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Bees on the Boat-Deck
Title: Bees on the Boat-Deck
Character: Sergeant Wilks
Released: January 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.