Lawrence Grossmith

Lawrence Grossmith

Born: March 28, 1877
Died: February 21, 1944
in London, England, UK

Movies for Lawrence Grossmith...

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Title: In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Released: July 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Lord Dalroy
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Frank
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Jarvis Woodruff
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
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All Women Have Secrets
Title: All Women Have Secrets
Character: Professor Hewitt
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Governor
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Smash and Grab
Title: Smash and Grab
Character: Rankin
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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The Girl in the Taxi
Title: The Girl in the Taxi
Character: Baron des Aubrais
Released: September 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
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Silver Blaze
Title: Silver Blaze
Character: Sir Henry Baskerville
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Make-Up
Title: Make-Up
Character: Sir Edward Hutton
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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Men Are Not Gods
Title: Men Are Not Gods
Character: Stanley
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
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Everything in Life
Title: Everything in Life
Character: Lewis Radford
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Bernard
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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Sing As We Go
Title: Sing As We Go
Character: Sir William Upton
Released: September 13, 1934
Type: Movie
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Whistling Rufus
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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The Luck of a Sailor
Title: The Luck of a Sailor
Character: Silvius
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Pedo, Uncle of the Castle Girl, Who Knows Better
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Cash
Title: Cash
Character: Joseph
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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Counsel's Opinion
Title: Counsel's Opinion
Character: Lord Rockburn
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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The Brass Bottle
Title: The Brass Bottle
Released: April 30, 1914
Type: Movie
A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.