Percy Walsh

Percy Walsh

Born: April 24, 1888
Died: January 19, 1952

Movies for Percy Walsh...

Dick Barton at Bay
Title: Dick Barton at Bay
Character: Professor Mitchell
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Title: The Happiest Days of Your Life
Character: Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: Editor, Evening Comet
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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Now Barabbas
Title: Now Barabbas
Character: Jones
Released: May 24, 1949
Type: Movie
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: District Superintendent
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Chairman of Meeting
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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The Guinea Pig
Title: The Guinea Pig
Character: Alec Stevens
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Suddaby
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Title: The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Character: Sir Frank Murchison
Released: April 11, 1947
Type: Movie
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Merridew
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 Adventures of Tartu
Title: The Adventures of Tartu
Character: Dr. Willendorf
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Police Sergeant
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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Thursday's Child
Title: Thursday's Child
Character: Charles Lennox
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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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
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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Secret Mission
Title: Secret Mission
Character: Monsieur Fayolle
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
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Adventure in Blackmail
Title: Adventure in Blackmail
Character: Saxon Rose
Released: April 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Title: Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Character: Officer
Released: December 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
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The Common Touch
Title: The Common Touch
Character: McFarlane
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
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Jeannie
Title: Jeannie
Character: French Customs Man
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Dvorak
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Inspector Blow
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Gustave
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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The Dawn Guard
Title: The Dawn Guard
Character: Bert
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.
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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Schwartz, spy chieftain
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
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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Pastor Hall
Title: Pastor Hall
Character: Herr Veit
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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Traitor Spy
Title: Traitor Spy
Character: Otto Lemnel
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Prison Governor (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
Title: Oh, Mr. Porter!
Character: Superintendent
Released: October 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Captain of Swedish Packet
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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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Captain of the 'Rob Roy'
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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Educated Evans
Title: Educated Evans
Character: Capt. Reid
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
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The Marriage of Corbal
Title: The Marriage of Corbal
Character: Gamekeeper
Released: May 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Character: Alec Laurie
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
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King of the Damned
Title: King of the Damned
Character: Capt. Perez
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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Checkmate
Title: Checkmate
Character: Mr. Curtail
Released: September 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Naylor
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Brown on Resolution
Title: Brown on Resolution
Character: Kapitan von Lutz
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Title: The Case of Gabriel Perry
Character: William Read
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
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Death Drives Through
Title: Death Drives Through
Character: Mr. Lord
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
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Admirals All
Title: Admirals All
Character: Adm. Westerham
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Customer With Umbrella
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Detective Inspector (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
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The Green Pack
Title: The Green Pack
Character: Monty Carr
Released: October 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
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The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Title: The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Character: Mr. Mellows
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
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Enter the Queen
Title: Enter the Queen
Character: Brood
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A short comedy film directed by Arthur Varney.