Frank Birch

Birth : 1889-12-05, London, England, UK

Death : 1956-02-14

Movies

Face the Music
Trumpet Salesman
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Will Any Gentleman...?
Mr. Brown
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
The Insect Play
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
The Challenge
Rev. Charles Hudson
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Who Goes Next?
Grover
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
The Villiers Diamond
Silas Wade
A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
Victoria the Great
Charles Dilke
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Double Exposures
Kempton
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
Jump for Glory
Vicar
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Cross Currents
Rev. Eustace Hickling
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Ashes
Director
Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.
The Second Kiss
Co-Director
'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)