Dennis Wyndham
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Dennis Wyndham was a South African film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1920 and 1956. He was born in Natal, South Africa
.
On 23 May 1917 he married the actress Elsie Mackay
and she performed as Poppy Wyndham throughout most of her stage and film career. Her elopement caused her father James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
to disinherit her. The marriage was annulled in 1922.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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On 23 May 1917 he married the actress Elsie Mackay
Elsie Mackay
For the American actress Elsie Mackay please see Elsie Mackay The Honourable Elsie Mackay was a British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviatrix who died attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Walter G. R...
and she performed as Poppy Wyndham throughout most of her stage and film career. Her elopement caused her father James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape, GCSI, GCMG, KCIE was a British colonial administrator in India.Mackay was the second son of James Mackay of Arbroath and his wife, Deborah Lyle...
to disinherit her. The marriage was annulled in 1922.
Filmography
- Lorna Doone (1920)
- The Eleventh HourThe Eleventh Hour (film)The Eleventh Hour is a 1922 British silent film. One of a number of adaptations of Ethel M. Dell's romance novels made around this time, the film revolves around Doris Elliott , who marries farmer Jeff Ironside , but quickly tires of farm life, and leaves him, only to realise her mistake and...
(1922) - Lily of Killarney (1929)
- The InformerThe Informer (1929 film)The Informer is a 1929 British drama film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward and Carl Harbord. It was based on the novel The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty which was more famously adapted in the 1935 film The Informer...
(1929) - Juno and the PaycockJuno and the Paycock (film)Juno and the Paycock is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood.The film was based on a successful play by Sean O'Casey.-Plot:...
(19301930 in film-Events:* November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm, and a very early form of 70mm film and was the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era costing over $2 million. The film was praised for its aesthetic quality and realism...
) - Carmen (1931)
- Who Killed Doc Robin?Who Killed Doc Robin?Who Killed Doc Robin? is a 1931 British short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Clifford Heatherley, Dorrie Deane and Dennis Wyndham.-Cast:* Clifford Heatherley - Luigi Scarlatti* Dorrie Deane - Sadie Sucker...
(1931) - Let's Love and LaughLet's Love and LaughLet's Love and Laugh is a 1931 British-German comedy film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus and Dennis Wyndham. A German-language version Die Bräutigamswitwe was made at the same time. Two philanderers get married to each other. It was based on the play...
(1931) - The Man They Couldn't ArrestThe Man They Couldn't ArrestThe Man They Couldn't Arrest is a 1931 British drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Hugh Wakefield, Gordon Harker, Garry Marsh and Dennis Wyndham...
(1931) - The Face at the WindowThe Face at the Window (1932 film)The Face at the Window is a 1932 British drama film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Raymond Massey, Claude Hulbert and Isla Bevan....
(1932) - The Stolen NecklaceThe Stolen NecklaceThe Stolen Necklace is a 1933 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Lester Matthews, Joan Marion and Mickey Brantford.-Cast:* Lester Matthews as Clive Wingate* Joan Marion as Diana Hunter* Mickey Brantford as Tom Hunter...
(1933) - Anne One HundredAnne One HundredAnne One Hundred is a 1933 British drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Stockfeld, Gyles Isham and Dennis Wyndham. A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open. It was based on the play Anne One Hundred Percent by Sewell Collins.-Cast:*...
(1933) - Money MadMoney Mad (1934 film)Money Mad is a British drama film directed by Frank Richardson and starring Virginia Cherrill, Garry Marsh, and Peter Gawthorne.-Cast:* Virginia Cherrill - Linda* Garry Marsh - Rutherford* D. A. Clarke-Smith - Phillips...
(1934) - Immortal Gentleman (1935)
- Midshipman EasyMidshipman EasyMidshipman Easy is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Carol Reed and starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood and Harry Tate. A young man runs away from home, joins the navy and goes to sea in the 1790s. He rescues a captive woman from a Spanish ship and battles pirates and smugglers...
(1935) - The Lonely RoadThe Lonely RoadThe Lonely Road is a 1936 British drama film directed by James Flood and starring Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Nora Swinburne and Malcolm Keen...
(1936) - SensationSensation (film)Sensation is a 1936 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring John Lodge, Diana Churchill, Francis Lister and Felix Aylmer...
(1936) - You Must Get MarriedYou Must Get MarriedYou Must Get Married is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Frances Day, Neil Hamilton and Robertson Hare. In order to be able to work in Britain an American actress marries a British sailor...
(1936) - Windbag the SailorWindbag the SailorWindbag the Sailor is a British comedy film directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay in the title role. Ben Cutlet is a sea captain who entertains his bar room audience with tales of his days at sea, even though in reality his maritime experience extends only to navigating a coal barge...
(19361936 in filmThe year 1936 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.*November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon...
) - Oh, Mr Porter!Oh, Mr Porter!Oh, Mr Porter! is a British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not his most commercially successful, it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences...
(19371937 in filmThe year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.- Events :*April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US....
) - Convict 99Convict 99Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring British comedian Will Hay and Googie Withers.-Synopsis:Incompetent Dr Benjamin Twist is dismissed from his job as headmaster at St. Michaels' School Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel...
(1939) - Old Mother Riley, MPOld Mother Riley, MPOld Mother Riley, MP is a 1939 film which forms part of the Old Mother Riley series of films. The films plot centres around Old Mother Riley standnig for election to the House of Commons....
(1939) - The Arsenal Stadium MysteryThe Arsenal Stadium MysteryThe Arsenal Stadium Mystery is a 1939 British mystery film, and is one of the first feature films where football is a central element in the plot....
(1940) - Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)
- Sailors Don't Care (1940)
- Neutral PortNeutral PortNeutral Port is a 1940 British war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, Phyllis Calvert and Wally Patch. A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy...
(1940) - Old Mother Riley's GhostsOld Mother Riley's GhostsOld Mother Riley's Ghosts is a 1941 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and John Stuart. It was part of the long-running Old Mother Riley series. Old Mother Riley inherits a castle in Scotland, but it appears to be haunted.-Cast:* Arthur Lucan ... ...
(1941) - Love on the DoleLove on the Dole (film)Love on the Dole is a 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood.- Plot summary :...
(1941) - This EnglandThis England (film)This England is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring John Clements, Constance Cummings and Emlyn Williams...
(1941) - Sheepdog of the HillsSheepdog of the HillsSheepdog of the Hills is a 1941 British drama film directed by Germain Burger and starring David Farrar, Philip Friend and Helen Perry. An outbreak of sheep-stealing occurs in a small rural community in the West Country.-Cast:...
(1941) - The Common TouchThe Common TouchThe Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard.-Cast:* Geoffrey Hibbert - Peter Henderson* Harry Welchman - 'Lincoln's Inn'* Greta Gynt - Sylvia Meadows...
(1941) - The Day Will DawnThe Day Will DawnThe Day Will Dawn, released in the U.S. as The Avengers, is a 1942 war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence...
(1942) - Schweik's New AdventuresSchweik's New AdventuresSchweik's New Adventures is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Richard Attenborough and Julien Mitchell. It is also known by the alternative title It Started at Midnight...
(1943) - Battle for Music (1943)
- They Met in the DarkThey Met in the DarkThey Met in the Dark is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Karel Lamac and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. A cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring.-Cast:...
(1943) - Bell-Bottom George (1944)
- I Didn't Do ItI Didn't Do ItI Didn't Do It is a 1945 British comedy crime film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Dennis Wyndham and Carl Jaffe. An actor staying at a theatrical boarding house is framed for a murder....
(1945) - Hungry HillHungry Hill (film)Hungry Hill is a 1947 British film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Cecil Parker with a screenplay by Terence Young and Daphne du Maurier, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier....
(1947) - Dancing with CrimeDancing with CrimeDancing with Crime is a 1947 British film directed by John Paddy Carstairs with a screenplay by Brock Williams from an original story by Peter Fraser.-Plot:...
(1947) - The Greed of William HartThe Greed of William HartThe Greed of William Hart is a 1948 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn and Winifred Melville...
(1948) - Oliver TwistOliver Twist (1948 film)Oliver Twist is the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dicken's 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony...
(1948) - Black JackBlack Jack (film)Black Jack is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. It tells the story of a man who uses his yacht to smuggle drugs tries to go straight, but finds it harder than he had anticipated...
(1950) - The Crimson PirateThe Crimson PirateThe Crimson Pirate is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Burt Lancaster, who also co-produced the film, as Captain Vallo, the eponymous pirate, and is set in the Caribbean late in the 18th century, on the fictional islands of Cobra and San Pero...
(1952) - The Dog and the DiamondsThe Dog and the DiamondsThe Dog and the Diamonds is a 1953 British family drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, and Geoffrey Sumner....
(1953) - The Men of Sherwood ForestThe Men of Sherwood ForestThe Men of Sherwood Forest is a 1954 British adventure film directed by Val Guest and starring Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore and David King-Wood. The film follows the exploits of Robin Hood and his followers...
(1954) - For Better, for WorseFor Better, for Worse (1954 film)For Better, for Worse is a 1954 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson.-Cast:* Dirk Bogarde as Tony Howard* Susan Stephen as Anne Purves* Cecil Parker as Anne's Father* Eileen Herlie as Anne's Mother* Athene Seyler as Miss Mainbrace...
(1954) - Ramsbottom Rides AgainRamsbottom Rides AgainRamsbottom Rides Again is a 1955 British western comedy film starring Arthur Askey as the title hero Bill Ramsbottom, with Sid James, pop singer Frankie Vaughan and Campbell Singer in supporting roles....
(1956)