Derrick De Marney

Derrick De Marney

Birth : 1906-09-21, London, England, UK

Death : 1978-02-18

History

Derrick De Marney was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a producer. He is probably best known for his starring role as a man wrongly accused of murder in the 1937 Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent.

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Derrick De Marney

Movies

No Way Back
Writer
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons death in the same operation and kidnaps Zacks son to hold as bait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems an another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be no way out.
The Projected Man
Latham
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Private's Progress
Pat
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
The March Hare
Captain Marlow
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Slim Callaghan
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
She Shall Have Murder
Dagobert Brown
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
No Way Back
Writer
A gangster's girl loves a one-eyed boxer who is framed for robbery.
Sleeping Car To Trieste
George Grant
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Frenzy
Associate Producer
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Frenzy
Charles Garrie
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
The Gentle Sex
Producer
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
London Scrapbook
Director
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
The First of the Few
Squadron Leader Jefferson
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
Malta G.C.
Director
Short WW II documentary
Dangerous Moonlight
Mike Carroll
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
This Is Poland
Narrator
In the film, used the chronicles of war, fragments preserved in London prewar Polish films (landscape, architecture, industry), Allied supplies from Narvik, chronicles from France and material participation of Polish troops in the Battle of Britain. The film consists of two parts. The first part presents the image of Polish pre-war - an idyllic landscape, folklore, rich culture, growing industry. Part two represents the Nazi aggression, the heroic Polish soldier fighting on different fronts.
Three Silent Men
Captain John Mellish
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
The Second Mr. Bush
Tony
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
The Lion Has Wings
Bill - Navigator
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Flying Fifty-Five
Bill Urquhart
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Sixty Glorious Years
Benjamin Disraeli
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Blond Cheat
Michael Ashburn
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Young and Innocent
Robert Tisdall
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
Victoria the Great
Younger Diraeli
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.
The Conquest of the Air
(uncredited)
This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.
Land Without Music
Rudolpho Strozzi
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
Cafe Mascot
Jerry Wilson
A young man discovers £1,000 in a taxi. The kindly man gives it to an impoverished Irish girl (Geraldine Fitzgerald) by investing it in her cafe, The Cafe Mascot.
Things to Come
Richard Gordon
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
The Immortal Gentleman
James Carter / Tybalt
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
Once in a New Moon
Bryan Grant
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Music Hall
Jim
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Stranglehold
Phillip
A drama film directed by Henry Edwards
Shadows
Peter
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
The Valley of Ghosts
Arthur Wilmot
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Adventurous Youth
The Englishman
In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
Spitfire
Squadron Leader Jefferson
The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II