Filmography

• Under Secret Orders
  Under Secret Orders
  Under Secret Orders is a British thriller film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Dita Parlo, John Loder and Erich von Stroheim.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Mademoiselle Docteur (1937)
• Farewell Again
  Farewell Again
  Farewell Again is a 1937 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Leslie Banks, Flora Robson, Sebastian Shaw and Robert Newton. The film is a portmanteau illustrating the calls of duty on various soldiers and their families...
  
  (1937)
• Knight Without Armour
  Knight Without Armour
  Knight Without Armour is a 1937 British historical drama film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Biró adapted by Frances Marion from the novel by James Hilton. The music score was by...
  
  (1937)
• Action for Slander
  Action for Slander
  Action for Slander is a 1937 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Clive Brook, Ann Todd and Googie Withers. An army officer is falsely accused at cheating at cards by a man whose wife he had an affair with and struggles to clear his name...
  
  (1937)
• Smash and Grab
  Smash and Grab
  Smash and Grab is a 1937 British comedy crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Arthur Margetson and Anthony Holles...
  
  (1937)
• The Green Cockatoo
  The Green Cockatoo
  The Green Cockatoo is a 1937 British drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring John Mills, René Ray and Robert Newton. An innocent young girl travels to London from her home in Devon and gets mixed up with various unsavoury characters....
  
  (1937)
• The Divorce of Lady X
  The Divorce of Lady X
  The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 British romantic comedy film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Tim Whelan and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple and Arthur Wimperis, adapted by Lajos Biró from the play Counsel's Opinion by Gilbert...
  
  (1938)
• Second Best Bed
  Second Best Bed
  Second Best Bed is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose. It was based on a story by Ben Travers...
  
  (1938)
• South Riding
  South Riding (film)
  South Riding is a 1938 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and produced by Alexander Korda, starring Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn and Ann Todd. A squire becomes involved in local politics. It is based on the novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby...
  
  (1938)
• The Drum (1938)
• The Terror
  The Terror (1938 film)
  The Terror is a 1938 British crime film directed by Richard Bird and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Linden Travers and Bernard Lee. It was based on a play by Edgar Wallace.The film is also known as Edgar Wallace's The Terror ....
  
  (1938)
• This Man Is News
  This Man Is News
  This Man is News is a 1938 British comedy mystery film directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim and Edward Lexy. A journalist solves a crime of which he himself is suspected....
  
  (1938)
• Sidewalks of London
  Sidewalks of London
  Sidewalks of London, also known as St. Martin's Lane, is a 1938 British, black-and-white, comedy drama starring Charles Laughton as a busker or street entertainer who teams up with a talented pickpocket, played by Vivien Leigh. It also stars Ronald Shiner as the Barman...
  
  (1938)
• Sixty Glorious Years
  Sixty Glorious Years
  Sixty Glorious Years is a 1938 British film directed by Herbert Wilcox. The film is a sequel to the 1937 film Victoria the Great.The film is also known as Queen of Destiny in the US.- Cast :*Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria...
  
  (1938)
• Night Journey (1938)
• Many Tanks Mr. Atkins
  Many Tanks Mr. Atkins
  Many Tanks Mr. Atkins is a 1938 British comedy spy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Claude Hulbert, Reginald Purdell and Barbara Greene...
  
  (1938)
• Kate Plus Ten
  Kate Plus Ten (film)
  Kate Plus Ten is a 1938 British thriller film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin and Noel Madison. It was adapted from the Edgar Wallace novel Kate Plus Ten. It was also released as Queen of Crime. Kate, the leader of a gang of criminals, works as secretary to an...
  
  (1938)
• Traitor Spy
  Traitor Spy
  Traitor Spy is a 1939 British mystery film directed by Walter Summers and starring Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni and Edward Lexy. -Cast:* Bruce Cabot - Ted Healey* Marta Labarr - Freyda Healey* Tamara Desni - Marie Dufreyene...
  
  (1939)
• This Man in Paris
  This Man in Paris
  This Man in Paris is a 1939 British comedy mystery film directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson and Alastair Sim. A British journalist and his wife travel to France to investigate a counterfeiting rang involving a British aristocrat.It was a sequel to the 1938 film...
  
  (1939)
• The Gang's All Here
  The Gang's All Here (1939 film)
  The Gang's All Here is a 1939 British, black-and-white, crime, drama, musical, directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Ronald Shiner as Spider Ferris. It was produced by Associated British Picture Corporation. Subsequently, the film was released in 1943 with the film title of The Amazing Mr...
  
  (1939)
• The Outsider
  The Outsider (1939 film)
  The Outsider is a 1939 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring George Sanders, Mary Maguire and Barbara Blair. An osteopath cures one of his patients with whom he has fallen in love. It is a remake of the 1931 film The Outsider and was based on a play by Dorothy Brandon.-Cast:*...
  
  (1939)
• Too Dangerous to Live
  Too Dangerous to Live
  Too Dangerous to Live is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. It was based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume. A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.-Cast:* Sebastian...
  
  (1939)
• Laugh It Off
  Laugh It Off (1940 film)
  Laugh It Off is a 1940 British musical comedy film directed by John Baxter and Wallace Orton and starring Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin, Anthony Hulme and Marjorie Browne.-Cast:* Tommy Trinder - Tommy Towers* Jean Colin - Sally* Anthony Hulme - Somers...
  
  (1940)
• The Proud Valley
  The Proud Valley
  The Proud Valley is a 1940 Ealing Studios film starring the African-American actor Paul Robeson. Filmed on location in the South Wales coalfield the heart of the main coal mining region of Wales, the film tells the story of a Black American miner and singer who gets a job in a mine and joins a male...
  
  (1940)
• The Spider
  The Spider (1940 film)
  The Spider is a 1940 British, black-and-white, crime, drama, thriller, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ronald Shiner as . It was produced by Admiral Films.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1940)
• Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (1940)
• Dangerous Comment (1940)
• Convoy
  Convoy (1940 film)
  - Plot summary :A Royal Navy cruiser returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. They are sent to meet a convoy and escort them safely into English coastal waters...
  
  (1940)
• Spare a Copper
  Spare a Copper
  Spare a Copper is a 1940 British, black-and-white, musical comedy war film, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, as the Piano Mover and Tuner, and George Formby. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures...
  
  (1940)
• Old Bill and Son
  Old Bill and Son
  Old Bill and Son is a 1941 British, black-and-white, comedy, war film, directed by Ian Dalrymple and starring Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare and Ronald Shiner as Herbert 'Bert' Smith. It was produced by Legeran Films.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1941)
• Medal for the General
  Medal for the General
  Medal for the General is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey. The screenplay by Elizabeth Baron is based on the novel of the same title by James Ronald.-Plot:...
  
  (1944)
• Piccadilly Incident
  Piccadilly Incident
  Piccadilly Incident is a 1946 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby and Leslie Dwyer. A married woman is believed dead in a shipwreck, but returns home with the Second World War at its height to find her husband remarried....
  
  (1946)
• A Girl in a Million (1946)
• School for Secrets
  School for Secrets
  School for Secrets is a 1946 British film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring David Tomlinson, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern...
  
  (1946)
• Captain Boycott (1947)
• The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
  The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
  The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as...
  
  (1947)
• While I Live
  While I Live
  While I Live is a 1947 British drama film, directed by John Harlow. While I Live is best remembered for its musical theme "The Dream of Olwen" composed by Charles Williams, reprised at intervals throughout the film, which became hugely popular in its time and is still regularly performed...
  
  (1947)
• The Mark of Cain (1947)
• Good-Time Girl
  Good-Time Girl
  Good-Time Girl is a 1948 British drama film directed by David MacDonald. The film was based on Arthur La Bern's novel "Night Darkens the Street."-Plot:...
  
  (1948)
• My Brother's Keeper (1948)
• The Winslow Boy
  The Winslow Boy (1948 film)
  The Winslow Boy is a 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. It was made by De Grunwald Productions and distributed by the British Lion Film Corporation. It was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Anatole de Grunwald with Teddy Baird as associate producer. The...
  
  (1948)
• Blanche Fury
  Blanche Fury
  Blanche Fury is a 1948 drama film starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was adapted from a novel by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era England, two schemers will stop at nothing to acquire the Fury estate, even murder.-Plot:...
  
  (1948)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
• For Them That Trespass
  For Them That Trespass
  For Them That Trespass is a 1949 British crime film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett and Stephen Murray...
  
  (1949)
• Children of Chance (1949)
• It's Not Cricket
  It's Not Cricket (1949 film)
  It's Not Cricket is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham. It was one of the final films made by Gainsborough Pictures before the studio was merged into the Rank Organisation.-Plot:Major Bright and Capain Early...
  
  (1949)
• Golden Arrow
  Golden Arrow (film)
  Golden Arrow is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Kathleen Harrison. On a journey from Paris to London, an Englishman, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they...
  
  (1949)
• The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
  The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
  The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery is a 1950 British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson and Clifford Evans. A man sends in a question to the BBC panel show Twenty Questions before he commits a murder...
  
  (1950)
• Cloudburst
  Cloudburst (film)
  Cloudburst is a 1951 British drama film, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later...
  
  (1951)
• The Smart Aleck
  The Smart Aleck
  -Cast:* Peter Reynolds as Alec Albion* Mercy Haystead as Judith* Leslie Dwyer as Gossage* Edward Lexy as Inspector* Kynaston Reeves as Uncle Edward* Charles Hawtrey as Farr* David Hurst as Poppi* David Keir as Mr. Guppy* Annette D. Simmonds as Sylvia...
  
  (1951)
• The Lady with the Lamp
  The Lady with the Lamp (film)
  The Lady With The Lamp is a 1951 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding and Felix Aylmer...
  
  (1951)
• Night Was Our Friend (1951)
• The Happy Family
  The Happy Family (1952 film)
  The Happy Family is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison and Naunton Wayne. The plot of the film centres on resistance by a family to the disruption caused by the construction of the Festival of Britain. It is also known by the...
  
  (1952)
• You're Only Young Twice (1952)
• Miss Robin Hood
  Miss Robin Hood
  Miss Robin Hood is a 1952 British film directed by John Guillermin. It falls neatly within the genre of post-war British fantasy, and there are strong correlations with a number of films within this genre such as e.g...
  
  (1952)
• The Golden Link
  The Golden Link
  The Golden Link is a 1954 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring André Morell, Thea Gregory and Patrick Holt. Police try to solve a case involving a woman who fell to her death from the top of a block of high-rise flats.-Cast:...
  
  (1954)
• Orders Are Orders
  Orders Are Orders
  Orders Are Orders is a 1954 British comedy film directed by David Paltenghi, and featuring Peter Sellers, Sid James, Tony Hancock, Raymond Huntley, Donald Pleasence and Eric Sykes. It was a remake of the 1933 film Orders Is Orders.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1954)
• Captain Lightfoot
  Captain Lightfoot
  Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 film starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush.It is a historical drama set in Ireland and was filmed at Clogherhead, County Louth, Ireland.-Cast:* Rock Hudson as Michael Martin* Barbara Rush as Aga Doherty...
  
  (1955)
• Where There's a Will
  Where There's a Will (1955 film)
  Where There's a Will is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Leslie Dwyer and Michael Shepley...
  
  (1955)
• The March Hare
  The March Hare (film)
  The March Hare is a 1956 British comedy film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Martita Hunt and Cyril Cusack. The film follows the efforts in Ireland to turn a seemingly useless racing horse into a Derby-winner. It was based on a novel by T. H...
  
  (1956)
• Up in the World
  Up in the World
  Up in the World is a 1956 comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson and Jerry Desmonde, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and made by Rank.-Cast:* Norman Wisdom as Norman* Maureen Swanson as Jeannie Andrews* Jerry Desmonde as Major Willoughby...
  
  (1956)
• The Rising of the Moon
  The Rising of the Moon (film)
  The Rising of the Moon is a 1957 anthology film directed by John Ford. It consists of three episodes all set in Ireland:*"The Majesty of the Law", based on the short story of that title by Frank O'Connor in Bones of Contention...
  
  (1957)
• The Story of Esther Costello
  The Story of Esther Costello
  The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, and Heather Sears . The film is an exposé of large-scale fundraising. The Story of Esther Costello was produced by David Miller and Jack Clayton with Miller directing...
  
  (1957)
• The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
  The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
  The Man Who Wouldn't Talk is a 1958 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It starred Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dora Bryan, John Le Mesurier and Lloyd Lamble.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1958)