Leslie Dwyer
Nacimiento : 1906-08-28, Catford, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1986-12-29
Historia
Leslie Dwyer was an English film and tv actor, best known to modern audiences for his role as Mr Partridge, the miserable Punch and Judy man with a dislike of children in television's Hi-de-Hi.
The children visit a waxworks museum near closing time, whilst their grandmother does her shopping. Alice the chimp gets lost, and the children hide as attendants close the building for the night. Meanwhile, an attempt is being made to steal the day's takings.
Vorg
The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside an alien peepshow machine which showman Vorg and his assistant Shirna have brought to amuse the populace of the planet Inter Minor. Can they escape Vorg and the ferocious Drashigs?
Evangelist
Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.
Henry
Cinco años en la cárcel han dado a Herbie Hassler justo lo que necesita: tiempo suficiente para idear el golpe perfecto, robar 5 millones de dólares en una espléndida mansión inglesa. Para ello logra entrar a trabajar en la casa como experto en seguridad.
La dueña de la casa, una excéntrica sin sentido común, y los sirvientes, un grupo de torpes chiflados, hacen que la situación para Herbie sea perfecta.
La espléndida casa, y sus simpatiquísimos habitantes, consiguen que Herbie se olvide de su plan… hasta que los matones que financiaron el robo se presentan reclamando su dinero.
Bookshop Assistant
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Carpenter
A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
Potter
Un joven científico americano, Stephen Reinhart, llega a una vieja casona de Inglaterra para conocer a los padres de su prometida Susan. El desolado estado en el que se encuentra la propiedad no desmerece en absoluto con el de sus moradores; mientras el padre, Nahum Witley, es un viejo amargado que vaga de aquí para allá en su silla de ruedas, su esposa Letitia permanece postrada en cama oculta tras un grueso velo negro. Stephen no tardará en descubrir la razón.
Bert
A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.
Police Constable Robinson
A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
Alf Stoker
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
Milkman
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Jack Bedwell (voice)
Documentary film about the track workers and "fluffers" (track cleaners) who maintain the London Underground system every night during the few hours when the trains are not running.
Bill Harris, Kitty's Trainer
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
Henry Cammon
Tras una discusión con su marido, Lucy abandona su casa y se va al cine. Allí mientras se dirige a los servicios es testigo del asesinato del gerente por dos delincuentes, Ward y Barney, que intentan forzar la caja fuerte a continuación. Es descubierta y en la persecución Lucy es atropellada por un autobús y llevada al hospital. Wade decide vigilarla y asesinarla para evitar que los identifique y, en consecuencia, ser ahorcados, en contra de la opinión de Barney. Intenta colarse en el hospital para estrangularla, pero una anciana paciente lo descubre. Decide disfrazarse de enfermero y se dirige a la sala de operaciones, donde Lucy está a punto de ser intervenida…
Fred Borcombe
A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
Benji Pugh
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Alfred "Alfie" Brewer
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Robert Plack
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Stookey
La película es un thriller desde sus inicios ya que sus títulos de crédito, cuatro hombres en un coche por las calles de Londres, cuatro hombres entregados a una misma causa, el robo a un furgón correo que transporta una gran suma de dinero. Cuatro hombres sin atencedentes criminales en sus espaldas, cada uno con una vida diferente al otro: un boxeador, un aviador, un funcionario y por último un desahogado con tiempo ilimitado para el ocio.
George Saunders
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Ernie Perker
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Chris Hawthorn
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
Roger the Lodger
My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!
Flowers
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
Narrator (voice)
The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the rigger in charge and one of the tractor drivers, expresses the humour and resourcefulness with which these transport workers tackle their job; and the camera has captured moments of beauty as well as some amusing episodes in this journey of the longest load to travel by road in Britain.
Mick Foley
La historia de un boxeador y motorista que intenta seducir a una hermosa muchacha durante el carnaval.
Police Sergeant
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Gossage
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed wallet falls out of a vehicle and he helps himself to some of the money.
Berry
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Leonard
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Holly
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Brown
A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Steve Hall
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Fletcher
Gravemente herido durante una campaña militar en Grecia, Lord Byron sueña que es juzgado al morir por ser, de una parte, poeta y soldado, y de otra seductor y libertino. Entre los testigos se encuentran la infame Lady caroline Lamb y su esposa Annabella, algo más pura... (filmaffinit)
Batman
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Sam Hillcott
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Barman
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
George
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
Reg Slater
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Sam
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
Soldier in Café (uncredited)
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
George Leggett
British intelligence officers (Robert Newton, Guy Middleton) head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Stripey
Aunque la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) separa a un matrimonio, su amor se fortalece todavía más durante la contienda.
Pub Customer
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Pvt. Sid Beck
Listos para luchar y morir por su país, un grupo de civiles de toda clase y condición se someten a un entrenamiento básico ante el inminente estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Aunque al principio se quejan de la rígida disciplina que implica su nuevo régimen de vida, no tardan en adaptarse y adquirir las habilidades necesarias para cumplir con su cometido, además de sentirse orgullosos de ello. Durante su participación en la invasión del norte de África, su barco será alcanzado por los alemanes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ship's Steward
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Siddons
Homenaje a la importante labor de las enfermeras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Parkinson
Cuenta la historia del destructor HMS Torrin, desde su construcción hasta su hundimiento por aviones alemanes en la batalla de Creta, Segunda Guerra Mundial. El único capitán que tuvo fue E.V. Kinross, experimentado marino que entrena a sus hombres, no sólo para que le sean leales, sino para que lo sean a su país y a ellos mismos. Se enfrentarán a retos en el mar y en casa, perderán a compañeros en el mar y seres queridos en casa, pero cumplirán su misión con heroísmo y valentía.
German Soldier on Train
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Lighthouse Keeper (uncredited)
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.
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.