James Knight
Nacimiento : 1891-05-04, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Concierge
Elle siempre ha querido ser cantante y compositora, pero sus sueños se ven truncados por la repentina muerte de sus padres. Entonces se muda con su tío, quien dirige un sello discográfico cuyo mayor éxito, el grupo femenino Sensation, se convierte también en el mayor dolor de cabeza para Elle. A su sentimiento de culpa, causado por el hecho de que sus padres se dirigían a una de sus actuaciones cuando murieron, se une la frustración por el ambiente pop que la rodea, muy diferente de las raíces country a las que ella estaba acostumbrada. Pero cuando conoce a Ty Parker, un famoso cantante pop en busca de un sonido “auténtico”, Elle recupera la ilusión por cantar y componer y no tarda en surgir entre ellos una sintonía repleta de música y pasión.
Police Sergeant
This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is unsuccessful in his efforts to purchase Beth for his own, he spitefully accuses the dog’s owner of sheep stealing.
Smokey
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Tom Hocking
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Businessman (uncredited)
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Sergeant (uncredited)
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Club Porter (1902)
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un anciano militar británico rememora su larga y excitante vida. Su larga amistad con un colega alemán o su desobediencia a las ordenanzas para ayudar a una bella compatriota en apuros sólo son dos episodios de una experiencia personal inolvidable. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Pepper - Cinema Manager
Un manitas y un artista aficionado se mete en problemas cuando se agregan cuerpos femeninos desnudos a las cabezas que ha dibujado de damas prominentes y se venden como anuncios de jabón.
Sailor on Train (uncredited)
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
Cinema Manager
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
German Major
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
Admiral
La historia de los altibajos de quienes protegían los convoyes vitales entre Estados Unidos e Inglaterra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Traffic Policeman (Uncredited)
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Passenger On SS Macaulay
Poco después del comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una persona que toca el ukelele (George) toma el barco equivocado y se encuentra en Noruega (aún sin invadir). Una mujer (Mary) lo confunde con un compañero agente de inteligencia británico y se ve involucrado en el intento de derrotar a los agentes nazis.
Chauffeur
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Police Constable (uncredited)
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Policeman Outside Parliament (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.
Brewery Foreman
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Fire Chief (uncredited)
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Police Inspector (Uncredited)
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Detective at London Palladium (uncredited)
Richard Hannay está en un music-hall londinense. De repente, suena un disparo y comienza una pelea. En medio del tumulto, una chica asustada le pregunta si puede ir con él. Richard accede y la lleva a su apartamento...
Red
In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.
Police Inspector (uncredited)
Bob y Jill Lawrence son un matrimonio que está de vacaciones en Suiza con su hija Betty. Allí entablan amistad con Louis Bernard, un francés que recibe un disparo en el corazón mientras baila con Jill. Justo antes de morir, Louis le pide a Bob que entregue a las autoridades unos documentos que tiene escondidos en su habitación. Bob descubre que Bernard era, en realidad, un espía británico que seguía los pasos de una misteriosa organización que planeaba asesinar a un político extranjero en Londres. A continuación Bob recibe la llamada de un desconocido que le exige que abandone el asunto o su hija sufrirá las consecuencias.
Ryan
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Newspaper Editor
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Inspector Brody
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
Garnett
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Webson
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
Tom
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
Detective
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
Tom Edwards
'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
Philip Denham
A horse owner saves a girl jockey from being kidnapped by a knight.
Father
Nicky Malvesty
Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.
A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.
Donald MacLean
A colonel's son conquers his cowardice by fighting his rival for a gypsy.