Franklin Dyall

Franklin Dyall

Birth : 1874-02-03, Liverpool, England, UK

Death : 1950-05-08

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franklin Dyall (3 February 1874, Liverpool – 8 May 1950, Worthing, Sussex) was an English actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1916 and 1948. He was the father of actor Valentine Dyall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franklin Dyall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Franklin Dyall

Movies

Bonnie Prince Charlie
Macdonald
The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
Yellow Canary
Captain Foster
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
The Conquest of the Air
Jerome de Ascoli
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.
The Case of Gabriel Perry
Prosecution
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
The Iron Duke
Blücher
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Thomas Cromwell
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Men of Steel
Charles Paxton
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
A Safe Affair
Rupert Gay
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
A Safe Affair
Producer
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
Creeping Shadows
Disher
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
A Night in Montmartre
Max Levine
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
Alibi
Sir Roger Ackroyd
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
The Ringer
Maurice Meister
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
Atlantic
John Rool
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
Easy Virtue
Aubrey Filton
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
Duke's Son
Director
The Garden of Resurrection
Cruickshank
A rich mixed race woman is abandoned after a mock marriage, has a stillborn baby, and weds the man who helps her.