D.A. Clarke-Smith

Birth : 1888-08-02,

Death : 1959-03-12

Movies

The Sword and the Rose
Cardinal Wolsey
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
The Pickwick Papers
Dodson
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Quo Vadis
Phaon
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Frieda
Herriot
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
Flying Fifty-Five
Jacques Gregory
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.
Murder by Rope
Hanson
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
The Happy Family
Mr. Harrison
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
The Feathered Serpent
Joe Farmer
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Binstead
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Passing Shadows
Stranger
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
The Perfect Flaw
Louis Maddox
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
A Cup of Kindness
Mr. Finch
A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Turkey Time
Westbourne
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
Friday the Thirteenth
Max
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Mayfair Girl
Captain Merrow
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
The Ghoul
Mahmoud
Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
High Finance
Dodman
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Follow the Lady
Flash Bob
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Illegal
Franklyn Dean (as D.E. Clarke-Smith)
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
White Face
Dr. Rudd
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
A Voice Said Goodnight
Philip Gaylor
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
The Frightened Lady
Dr. Amersham
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Help Yourself
Major Fred Harris
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
The Old Man
John Lorney
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Michael and Mary
Harry Price
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Shadows
Gruhn
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Bracelets
Joe le Sage
A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Atlantic
Freddie Tate-Hughes
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.