Selected filmography

• The Road to London (1921)
• The Poiting Finger (1922)
• The Bohemian Girl
  The Bohemian Girl (1922 film)
  The Bohemian Girl is a 1922 British romance film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello and C. Aubrey Smith. It was inspired by the opera The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn which was in turn based on a novel by Cervantes.-Cast:* Gladys Cooper -...
  
  (1922)
• Constant Hot Water (1923)
• Three to One Against (1923)
• Odd Tricks (1924)
• The Kensington Mystery (1924)
• London
  London (1926 film)
  London is a British silent film, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish. The film was adapted by Wilcox from a short story by popular author Thomas Burke...
  
  (1926)
• The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1928)
• Kitty
  Kitty (1929 film)
  Kitty is a 1929 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. The film was adapted from the 1927 novel of the same name by Warwick Deeping and marked the third co-star billing of Brody and Stuart, who had previously proved a very popular screen pairing...
  
  (1929)
• Such Is the Law
  Such Is the Law (1930 film)
  Such Is the Law is a 1930 British film directed by Sinclair Hill.- Cast :*Kate Cutler as Mother*Frances Day as Wife*Maud Gill as Aunt's Maid*Carl Harbord as Vivian Fairfax*Gibb McLaughlin as Valet*Nancy Price as Aunt*Miriam Seegar as Other Woman*C...
  
  (1930)
• Congress Dances
  Der Kongreß tanzt
  Der Kongress tanzt is a Germany musical comedy film produced in 1931 by Ufa, directed by Erik Charell, starring Lilian Harvey as Christel Weinzinger, the glove seller, Willy Fritsch as Tsar Alexander I of Russia and his doppelgänger, Uralsky, Otto Wallburg as Bibikoff, his Adjutant, Conrad Veidt...
  
  (1931)
• Jealousy
  Jealousy (1931 film)
  Jealousy is a 1931 British drama film directed by G.B. Samuelson and starring Lilian Oldland, Malcolm Keen, Harold French and Frank Pettingell...
  
  (1931)
• Good Night, Vienna
  Good Night, Vienna
  Goodnight, Vienna is a 1932 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle and Gina Malo. Two lovers in Vienna are separated by the First World War, but are later reunited....
  
  (1932)
• No Funny Business
  No Funny Business
  No Funny Business is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, Jill Esmond and Edmund Breon. The film is based around a comedy of errors during a divorce case It was made at Ealing Studios...
  
  (1933)
• Bitter Sweet
  Bitter Sweet (1933 film)
  Bitter Sweet is a musical romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and released by United Artists in 1933. It was the first film adaptation of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. It starred Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey, with Ivy St. Helier reviving her stage role as Manon.It tells the story...
  
  (1933)
• Friday the Thirteenth
  Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)
  Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked. The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.-Cast:...
  
  (1933)
• Britannia of Billingsgate
  Britannia of Billingsgate
  Britannia of Billingsgate is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker, Kay Hammond and John Mills. A family who work in the fish trade at Billingsgate Market encounter a film crew who are shooting there...
  
  (1933)
• High Finance
  High Finance (film)
  High Finance is a 1933 British drama film, directed by George King and starring Gibb McLaughlin and Ida Lupino, which was marketed as "the drama of a man overwhelmed by his own success". It is now classed as a lost film.-Plot:...
  
  (1933)
• The Iron Duke
  The Iron Duke (film)
  The Iron Duke is a 1934 British historical film directed by Victor Saville and starring George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper and Peter Gawthorne...
  
  (1934)
• Hyde Park Corner
  Hyde Park Corner (film)
  Hyde Park Corner is a 1935 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale, Henry Tate and Robert Holmes. Harker portrays a policeman investigating a crime in 1930s London, which proves to have its origins in the 1780s. The film takes its name from Hyde Park...
  
  (1935)
• The Dictator
  The Dictator (film)
  The Dictator is a 1935 British historical drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams and Helen Haye...
  
  (1935)
• Bulldog Jack
  Bulldog Jack
  Bulldog Jack is a 1935 film produced by Gaumont International, directed by Walter Forde, and starring Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson; it also starred Atholl Fleming as Bulldog Drummond....
  
  (1935)
• Dick Turpin
  Dick Turpin (1933 film)
  Dick Turpin is a 1933 British historical drama film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Stafford it starred Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, James Finlayson and Cecil Humphreys. The film depicts the adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York....
  
  (1935)
• Me and Marlborough
  Me and Marlborough
  Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1935)
• I Give My Heart (1935)
• There Goes Susie
  There Goes Susie
  There Goes Susie is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Stafford. It was adapted from the novel There Goes Susie by Hans Jacoby and Charlie Roellinghoff. An artist is hired by a major soap company for an advertisement...
  
  (1935)
• Drake of England
  Drake of England
  Drake of England is a 1935 British drama film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler and Jane Baxter. It depicts the life of Francis Drake and the events leading up to the defeat of the Armada in 1588.-Cast:...
  
  (1935)
• Broken Blossoms
  Broken Blossoms (1936 film)
  Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. It was based on the novel The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke. It was made at Twickenham Studios in West London. The story had previously been...
  
  (1936)
• Two's Company
  Two's Company (film)
  Two's Company is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Ned Sparks, Gordon Harker and Mary Brian. An American millionaire rents a country house from an English aristocrat and the two constantly fight...
  
  (1936)
• All In
  All In (film)
  All In is a 1936 British sports comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Ralph Lynn, Gina Malo and Garry Marsh. The owner of a racing stables has high hopes of winning The Derby, but fate intervenes. It was also known by the title Tattenham Corner.-Cast:* Ralph Lynn ... Archie Slott*...
  
  (1936)
• Irish for Luck
  Irish for Luck
  Irish for Luck is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Athene Seyler, Margaret Lockwood and Patric Knowles. An impoverished Irish Duchess tries to survive on her small income. It was also known as Meet the Duchess. It was adapted from a novel by L.A.G. Strong.-Cast:* ...
  
  (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Juggernaut
  Juggernaut (1936 film)
  Juggernaut is a 1936 British mystery film, starring Boris Karloff and Joan Wyndham. Directed by Henry Edwards, it was based on the novel by Alice Campbell and was distributed by Julius Hagen Productions. It was also known as The Demon Doctor.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• You Live and Learn
  You Live and Learn
  You Live and Learn is a 1938 British comedy film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Glenda Farrell and Claude Hulbert. The film was a quota quickie production, based on the novel Have You Come for Me? by Norma Patterson...
  
  (1937)
• Break the News
  Break the News (film)
  Break the News is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier and June Knight. Two struggling performers decide to create a fake murder scandal in order to drum up publicity for their act...
  
  (1938)
• 13 Men and a Gun
  13 Men and a Gun
  13 Men and a Gun is a 1938 British-Italian war film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Arthur Wontner, Clifford Evans and Howard Marion-Crawford...
  
  (1938)
• Almost a Gentleman
  Almost a Gentleman
  Almost a Gentleman is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Billy Bennett, Kathleen Harrison and Gibb McLaughlin.-Cast:* Billy Bennett - Bill Barker* Kathleen Harrison - Mrs Barker* Gibb McLaughlin - Bartholomew Quist...
  
  (1938)
• Hey! Hey! USA!
  Hey! Hey! USA!
  Hey! Hey! USA is a 1938 British comedy film starring comedian Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy and Eddie Ryan. Hay appears as Benjamin Twist, a porter who accidentally finds himself on a ship bound for the United States.-Plot outline:...
  
  (1938)
• Hold My Hand (1939)
• Inspector Hornleigh
  Inspector Hornleigh (film)
  Inspector Hornleigh is a 1938 British detective film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Peter Gawthorne and Wally Patch....
  
  (1939)
• Come on George!
  Come On George!
  Come On George! is a 1939 British, black-and-white, comedy, farce, musical, racing film, directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Ronald Shiner as Nat George Formby and Dirk Bogarde. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1939)
• Confidential Lady
  Confidential Lady
  Confidential Lady is a 1939 British comedy drama film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Ben Lyon and Jane Baxter. It is now classed as a lost film.-Plot:...
  
  (1939)
• Spy for a Day
  Spy for a Day
  Spy for a Day is a 1940 British comedy thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Douglas Wakefield, Paddy Browne and Jack Allen. During the First World War a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.-Cast:* Douglas...
  
  (1940)
• That's the Ticket (1940)
• Mr. Reeder in Room 13
  Mr. Reeder in Room 13
  Mr. Reeder in Room 13 is a 1941 British crime film directed by Norman Lee and starring Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray and Gibb McLaughlin. It is based on the short story collection The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace.-Cast:...
  
  (1941)
• Spellbound
  Spellbound (1941 film)
  Spellbound is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Harlow. The film is based on the novel The Necromancer by Robert Hugh Benson. It was also released under the titles of Ghost Story and The Spell of Army Nugent.-Plot:...
  
  (1941)
• Freedom Radio
  Freedom Radio
  Freedom Radio is a 1941 British propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley and Derek Farr. It is set in Nazi Germany during the Second World War about an underground German resistance group who run a radio station broadcasting against the...
  
  (1941)
• Penn of Pennsylvania
  Penn of Pennsylvania
  Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn...
  
  (1942)
• The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
• Much Too Shy
  Much Too Shy
  Much Too Shy is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley and Eileen Bennett.-Cast:* George Formby - George Any* Kathleen Harrison - Amelia Peabody* Hilda Bayley - Lady Driscoll...
  
  (1942)
• Tomorrow We Live (1943)
• My Learned Friend
  My Learned Friend
  My Learned Friend is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, farce, directed by Basil Dearden, co-directed with regular collaborator Will Hay and starring Ronald Shiner as the Man in Wilson's café, Will Hay as William Fitch and Charles Victor as "Safety" Wilson. It was produced by Michael Balcon,...
  
  (1943)
• Give Us the Moon
  Give us the Moon
  Give Us the Moon is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Vic Oliver, Margaret Lockwood and Peter Graves. A young layabout son of a hotel owner becomes involved with a group equally committed to doing no work and tries to join....
  
  (1944)
• Champagne Charlie
  Champagne Charlie (film)
  Champagne Charlie is a 1944 British musical film made by Ealing Studios. It is based on an 1860s play that depicted the real life rivalry between George Leybourne, who first performed the song of that name, and Alfred Vance....
  
  (1944)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
• Oliver Twist
  Oliver 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)
• Once Upon a Dream
  Once Upon a Dream (1949 film)
  Once Upon a Dream is a 1949 British comedy romance film directed by Ralph Thomas in his debut and starring Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, and Maurice DenhamTime: 1 hour 30 minutes-Plot:...
  
  (1949)
• The Queen of Spades
  The Queen of Spades (1949 film)
  The Queen of Spades is a fantasy-horror film based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. It stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell. A poor Russian officer tries to learn the secret of an aged countess's success at the card table.Despite a limited budget, it was...
  
  (1949)
• Night and the City
  Night and the City
  Night and the City is a film noir based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, and starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in London, the plot evolves around an ambitious hustler whose plans keep going wrong....
  
  (1950)
• The Black Rose
  The Black Rose
  The Black Rose is a 1950 20th Century-Fox film starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, loosely based on Thomas B. Costain's book. It was filmed partly on location in England and Morocco which substitutes for the Gobi Desert of China...
  
  (1950)
• The House in the Square
  The House in the Square
  The House in the Square, also titled I'll Never Forget You and Man of Two Worlds, is a 1951 science fiction film about an American atomic scientist who is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love. It starred Tyrone Power and Ann Blyth. It was adapted from the play Berkeley Square by...
  
  (1951)
• The Lavender Hill Mob
  The Lavender Hill Mob
  The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass...
  
  (1951)
• The Card
  The Card
  The Card is a short comedic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911, . It was later made into a 1952 movie starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley...
  
  (1952)
• Top Secret
  Top Secret (1952 film)
  Top Secret is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray. A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy.-Cast:* George Cole - George Potts* Oskar Homolka - Zekov...
  
  (1952)
• The Pickwick Papers
  The Pickwick Papers (film)
  The Pickwick Papers is a 1952 British film from George Minter of the Charles Dickens classic. Both screenplay and direction were by Noel Langley. It was awarded a Golden Bear in Russia where the rights were sold for £10,000.-Cast:...
  
  (1952)
• The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952)
• Grand National Night
  Grand National Night
  Grand National Night is a 1953 British thriller brought to the screen by George Minter under the production of Phil C. Samuel from a play by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. It was directed by Bob McNaught and starred Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister and Beatrice Campbell with support from Michael...
  
  (1953)
• The Million Pound Note
  The Million Pound Note
  The Million Pound Note is a 1954 British comedy, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gregory Peck...
  
  (1954)
• Hobson's Choice (1954)
• The Brain Machine (1955)
• The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
• The Man Who Never Was
  The Man Who Never Was
  The Man Who Never Was is a nonfiction 1953 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book and dramatising actual events...
  
  (1956)
• Who Done It?
  Who Done It? (1956 film)
  Who Done It? is a 1956 British comedy film starring comedian Benny Hill.-Cast:* Benny Hill as Hugo Dill* Belinda Lee as Frankie Mayne* David Kossoff as Zacco* Garry Marsh as Detective Inspector Hancock* George Margo as Barakov...
  
  (1956)
• Sea Wife
  Sea Wife
  Sea Wife is a British film based on the 1955 James Maurice Scott novel Sea-Wyf and Biscuit. Shot in Jamaica, the film is set around events in 1942 among a group of survivors from a torpedoed British refugee ship.-Plot:...
  
  (1957)
• The Naked Truth
  The Naked Truth (1957 film)
  The Naked Truth is a 1957 British film comedy starring Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas and Dennis Price. Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton and Joan Sims also appear...
  
  (1957)
• Too Many Crooks
  Too Many Crooks
  Too Many Crooks is a 1959 British comedy film about a bunch of inept crooks who kidnap the wrong woman. It stars George Cole as the leader of the gang, Brenda De Banzie as the victim, and Terry-Thomas as her husband...
  
  (1959)

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