Percy Parsons

Nacimiento : 1878-06-12,

Muerte : 1944-10-03

Películas

They Flew Alone
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Amor en onda corta
Hergensheimer
Bebe y Ben son marido y mujer (precisamente como en la vida real), luchando por obtener la mejor primicia para sus transmisiones de radio rivales, en medio de los problemas causados por Vic Oliver. Bebe, ahora Miss Libertad para el esfuerzo de guerra, tiene una exclusiva: un niño refugiado británico cuyo padre es dueño de la posada del castillo de Amersham, que acaba de ser bombardeada durante los ataques aéreos. La campaña de recaudación de fondos comienza y también lo hace su carrera para conseguir el primero en Amersham. La película sigue el éxito del programa de radio británico del mismo nombre en la vida real.
Los invasores
Hi-Jacked Canadian Motorist
Unos soldados alemanes, cuyo submarino ha sido hundido frente a las costas canadienses, tratan de llegar a los EEUU, todavía territorio neutral. El grupo sufrirá todo tipo de visicitudes en su desesperada huida e irá sembrando el pánico por todas partes.
Aquella noche en Varsovia
Bill Peters
En Polonia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven pianista huye de su país para continuar su carrera profesional. Al poco tiempo conoce a Carole Peters, una periodista estadounidense de la que se enamora y con la que viaja a Inglaterra. Pero, al llegar allí, se alista en un escuadrón aéreo polaco y vuelve a su país para rescatar a sus camaradas. Carole no duda en acompañarle.
The Four Just Men
American Broadcaster (uncredited)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
La ciudadela
Mr. Stillman
Andrew Manson, un joven médico que consigue su primer empleo en una población minera de Gales, se entrega al cuidado de trabajadores enfermos y gentes oprimidas. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, acabarán poniendo a pruebo sus principios morales.
Victoria the Great
President Lincoln
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.
Song of the Road
'Doctor' Rollo Dando
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
Said O'Reilly to McNab
Mr. Dunkel
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.
Everybody Dance
Josiah Spurgeon
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
Rhodes of Africa
Hendricks
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
Twelve Good Men
Hopwood
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
King of the Damned
Lumberjack
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
The Big Splash
Crook
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
The Camels Are Coming
Arab
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
Red Ensign
Casey
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Red Wagon
Cowboy Joe
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Friday the Thirteenth
American #2
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.
This Is the Life
Lefty Finn
This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
The Good Companions
Morton Mitcham
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
The Man from Toronto
Hogbin
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is a widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to the receipt of it. The two much marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
Happy Ever After
Merriman
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
Sleepless Nights
Mr. Drew
A journalist is sent to the South of France to interview a reclusive millionaire..He offers his hotel bedroom to the millionaires daughter to use to avoid her boyfriend,who is actually a crook, His boss arrives unexpectedly and as there is no other room available expects to share the hotel room with him, he explains the situation by saying he had just married the girl.Obviously lots of comedic situations arise because of this.
Love on Wheels
American Crook
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
The Frightened Lady
Gilder
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.
Strictly Business
Theodore C. Smith
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Creeping Shadows
Limping Man
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
Beyond the Cities
Boss
"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)
Suspense
Pvt. Brett
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
The Nipper
Joubert
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Chantaje
Crook (Uncredited)
Londres, 1929. Frank Webber, un detective de Scotland Yard muy ocupado, parece estar más interesado en su trabajo que en Alice White, su novia. Sintiéndose ignorada, Alice acepta salir con un elegante artista de educadas maneras que la invita a visitar su lujoso apartamento.