Harry Tate

Harry Tate

Birth : 1872-07-04,

Death : 1940-02-14

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Harry Tate

Movies

Take a Chance
Sergeant Tugday
Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
Wings of the Morning
Paddy
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
Keep Your Seats, Please
Auctioneer
Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
Soft Lights and Sweet Music
Himself
British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.
Midshipman Easy
Mr. Biggs
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
Look Up and Laugh
Turnpenny
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Hyde Park Corner
Taxi Driver
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
I Spy
George
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
Happy
Dupont
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
My Lucky Star
Monty, film director
'Shopgirl posing as film star loves porter posing as artist.' (British Film Catalogue)
Counsel's Opinion
Taxi Driver
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Her First Affaire
Major Gore
A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.