Syd Courtenay

Movies

Cotton Queen
Story
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Cotton Queen
The Mayor
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Darby and Joan
Director
Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his uncle, the family benefactor.
The Man Behind the Mask
Writer
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Boys Will Be Girls
Script
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Boys Will Be Girls
Rookum
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Everything Is Rhythm
Writer
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Captain Bill
Writer
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
The Stoker
Writer
British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.
The Outcast
Screenplay
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
Lost In The Legion
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
A Political Party
Writer
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
Hawleys of High Street
Writer
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
The Pride of the Force
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
Old Spanish Customers
Story
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
Scenario Writer
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
The Last Coupon
Screenplay
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Concert Party Violinist (uncredited)
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Scenario Writer
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Bill's Legacy
Count
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Bill's Legacy
Writer
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Poor Old Bill
Harry
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
Poor Old Bill
Story
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
What a Night!
Mr. Merry
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
What a Night!
Writer
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
Old Soldiers Never Die
Story
A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
Why Sailors Leave Home
Sheik Sidi Ben
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Why Sailors Leave Home
Story
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Kiss Me Sergeant
Lieutenant
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Kiss Me Sergeant
Theatre Play
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Lieutenant
A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Writer
A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.