Walter Byron

Walter Byron

Birth : 1899-06-11, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Death : 1972-03-03

History

Walter Byron (born Walter Clarence Butler; 11 June 1899 – 2 March 1972) was an English film actor.[1

Profile

Walter Byron

Movies

Once Upon a Honeymoon
Guard (uncredited)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Gentleman Jim
Ringside Telegrapher (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Mrs. Miniver
English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.
Nazi Agent
Officer (uncredited)
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Confirm or Deny
Minor Role
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Crashing Thru
McClusky
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
Death Goes North
Al Norton
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Trade Winds
Bob (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Frontier Scout
Lieutenant Adams
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Dennis Andrews
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Back in Circulation
Carlton Whitney
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Top of the Town
Nightclub Patron
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
The Bridge of Sighs
Arny Norman
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
If You Could Only Cook
Roy - Pianist at Wedding Rehearsal (uncredited)
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Dwight Boardman
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Folies Bergère
Marquis René de Lac
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
British Agent
Under Secretary Stanley
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
All Men Are Enemies
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
Once to Every Woman
Dr. Freddie Preston
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Man of Two Worlds
Eric Pager
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Big Time Or Bust
John Hammond
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Henry Jennison
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
Lost in Limehouse
Harold Heartright
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Grand Slam
Barney Starr
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
The Savage Girl
Jim Franklin
An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.
Queen Kelly
Prince Wolfram
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
Slightly Married
James R. "Jimmie" Martin
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
The Crusader
Joe Carson
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
This Sporting Age
Charles Morrell
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
Exposure
Andy Bryant
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
Week Ends Only
Jimmy Brigg
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
Society Girl
Warburton
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
Sinners in the Sun
Eric Nelson
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Vanity Fair
George Osborne
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Three Wise Girls
Jerry Dexter
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
The Menace
Ronald Quayle
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
The Yellow Ticket
Count Nikolai
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Left Over Ladies
Ronny
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
The Last Flight
Frink
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
The Reckless Hour
Allen Crane
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
Not Damaged
A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
The Sacred Flame
Colin Taylor
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
Tommy Atkins
Harold
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
The Awakening
Count Karl von Hagen
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
Yvette
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.