Will Fyffe

Will Fyffe

Birth : 1885-02-16, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Death : 1947-12-14

History

From Wikipedia Will Fyffe, CBE (16 February 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a Scottish music hall artist, a star of the 1930s and 1940s, on stage, screen and records. Fyffe made his debut in his father's stock company at the age of six. He travelled extensively throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK, playing the numerous music halls of the time, where he performed his sketches and sang his songs in his own inimitable style. During the 1930s, he was one of the highest paid musical hall artistes in Britain. In addition, Fyffe appeared in 23 major films of the era (American and British), sometimes starring, and recorded over 30 songs, delivered with his own unique style. Fyffe died whilst staying at Rusacks Hotel in St Andrews. After a few too many the star fell from a window in the hotel on the 14th December 1947. It is unknown if this fall was sheer accident or if Fyfe was taking his own life.

Profile

Will Fyffe

Movies

The Brothers
Aeneas McGrath
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Give Me the Stars
Heaven Is Round the Corner
Dougal
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
The Prime Minister
The Agitator
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Neutral Port
Capt. Ferguson
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
For Freedom
Chief
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
The Mind of Mr. Reeder
J.G. Reeder
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
They Came by Night
James Fothergill
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Rulers of the Sea
John Shaw
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
The Missing People
J. G. Reeder
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
Owd Bob
Adam McAdam
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Spring Handicap
Jack Clayton
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
Said O'Reilly to McNab
Malcolm McNab
A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O'Reilly. Then one day O'Reilly's father shows up for a "visit"--which, as it turns out, is because he's on the run from the police in New York.
Cotton Queen
Bill Todcastle
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Love in Exile
Doc Tate
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.
Debt of Honour
Fergus McAndrews
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
Men of Yesterday
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Annie Laurie
Will Laurie
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Rolling Home
Screenstory
A sacked engineer stows away on another vessel
Rolling Home
John McGregor
A sacked engineer stows away on another vessel
Happy
Simmy
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Elstree Calling
Himself
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
The Maid of Cefn Ydfa
Lewis Bach
A lawyer tries to drown a thatcher to prevent his marriage to an heiress.