Wallace Bosco

Wallace Bosco

Birth : 1880-01-31, Pancras, London, England, UK

Death : 1973-04-17

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Wallace Bosco

Movies

Avalanche
Writer
Young climbers try to scale alpine peak and are trapped by avalanche.
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Original Story
Mary Bunting is sitting alone when to her surprise and delight a rabbit six foot tall - elegantly dressed in frock coat and fancy waistcoat - appears. As he is a magic rabbit, he can be seen only by Mary, which naturally creates great confusion and misunderstanding.
Death Is a Woman
Writer
Narcotics agent Dennis goes undercover in the Mediterranean Islands to investigate a smuggling operation, and gains the confidence of a woman who works for the ringleader. But Dennis ends up arrested for murder when the crime boss turns up dead.
The Scarlet Blade
Villager
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
Raising the Wind
Man at Concert (uncredited)
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Richard III
Monk
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Peasant (uncredited)
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
March of Progress
Director
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars.
Brief Encounter
Doctor After Bobbie's Accident (uncredited)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
A Canterbury Tale
A. R. P. Worker
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Time Flies
(uncredited)
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
The Ghost Train
Ted Holmes
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
The Lady Vanishes
Gasthof Petrus Guest (uncredited)
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
Doctor Syn
Spectator in Coroner's Court (uncredited)
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
The 39 Steps
Palladium Doorman (uncredited)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
The Wickham Mystery
Edward Hamilton
'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Dangerous Seas
Sunny Bantick
A crime film directed by Edward Dryhurst.
The School for Scandal
Rawley
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
The Valley of Ghosts
Darracus Merrivan
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Dizzy Limit
Woolf
A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.
Balaclava
Lord Palmerston
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Brusiloff's golf opponent (as Wally Bosco)
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society. The golfer resolves to become an intellectual and, following a lecture by 'a highbrow Russian and typical whiskered Bolshevik' who happens to also be a brother golfer, the object of the golfer's affection realises that there may be something more to the game after all.
The Kensington Mystery
An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.
The Mystery of the Dancing Men
Slaney
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
Rob Roy
James Grahame
A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
The Wheels of Chance
A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
Dollars in Surrey
The Resident Patient
Moffat
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Lady Audley's Secret
Luke Marks
'Old knight's new wife throws first husband down well and tries to burn blackmailing gardener.' (British Film Catalogue)
Ivanhoe
Sir Cedric, Ivanhoe's Father
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowena (played by Evelyn Hope) has remained faithful, two weary travelers, Isaac of York (played by Herbert Brenon) and his pretty daughter Rebecca (played by Leah Baird), are admitted to Sir Cedric's castle, but after the knights learn that Isaac has money they abduct the visitors to the Norman stronghold of Torquilstone Castle.