Arthur Howard

Arthur Howard

Nacimiento : 1910-01-18, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1995-06-18

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Arthur Howard (18 January 1910 - 18 June 1995) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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Arthur Howard

Películas

Otro país
Waiter
En los años 30, dos jóvenes entablan amistad en un colegio británico de clase alta. La homosexualidad del uno y las ideas marxistas y revolucionarias del otro, los convertirán en unos "outsiders" dentro del marco de férrea disciplina victoriana del internado. Años después, se convertirán en espías de la Unión Soviética, usando como tapadera su condición de funcionarios del Gobierno Británico.
Tras la pista de la pantera rosa
Arthur, Bruno's butler
El fabuloso diamante La Pantera Rosa ha sido robado de la Cámara Acorazada de Joyas en Lugash. El inspector jefe Jacques Clouseau es asignado al caso por el explícito deseo del presidente Haleesh, lo que deja totalmente consternado al inspector jefe Dreyfus.
The Missionary
Fermleigh's Butler
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
El estrafalario prisionero de Zenda
El cuento clásico de Anthony Hope desde un punto de vista nada tradicional con la interpretación de Peter Sellers. Como en la historia original, el nuevo rey Rodolfo de Ruritania teme por su vida, y es sustituido por un doble: un taxista de Londres. Rubias encantadoras, traiciones, una batalla por la vida y el honor, y el placer de disfrutar la vida de la forma más extravagante.
Moonraker
Cavendish
El agente secreto James Bond recibe de sus superiores la orden de localizar el paradero de la nave espacial Moonraker, que ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Sus primeras investigaciones le llevan a seguir la pista del millonario Hugo Drax, constructor de la cápsula. Después de investigar en Venecia y en Río de Janeiro, Bond es capturado por Drax, y descubre que el villano posee una base de lanzamiento para cohetes espaciales, con los que se propone esparcir un gas tóxico que acabe con le vida terrestre, siendo ésta la primera fase de un perverso plan que el agente, ayudado por la Doctora Goodhead, intentará frustrar.
Escalofrío
Mr. Piggott
Después de la muerte de su hija, Julia Lofting, una adinerada ama de casa, se muda a Londres para reiniciar su vida. Todo parece estar bien hasta que la atormenta la tristeza de perder a su propio hijo y los fantasmas de otros niños.
Las adolescentes
Headmaster
Una chica española es enviada a estudiar a un internado londinense. Su carácter retraído le dificultará el trato con sus compañeras, de vida más disoluta dentro de lo posible allí. Hará buenas migas con dos de ellas, con las que saldrá por Londres a escondidas de la directora. De este modo, empezará a frecuentar compañías poco deseables, hasta el punto de caer en una red de pornografía internacional.
Se nos ha perdido un dinosaurio
Thumley
Un lord británico regresa a Londres después de haberles robado un peligroso secreto a los chinos. Sin que él lo sepa, le persigue el jefe del servicio de inteligencia chino en Londres, que le perseguirá hasta el Museo de historia. Como no le queda otro remedio, el fugitivo esconde el microfilme de la fórmula en el esqueleto de un dinosaurio.
Steptoe and Son
Vicar
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Kenneth (segment "Wrath")
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
Hoverbug
Mr. Watts
The young inventors Dick and Jenny Brewster, build their own 'Hoverbug' and hope to win the race which has been organised for home-made Hovercraft, but their arch rivals, Charlie and Sydney, bend the rules by enlisting professional help and by employing devious means to sabotage the Hoverbug.
Las sandalias del pescador
English Cardinal
Después de pasar veinte años en un campo de trabajos forzados en Siberia, el sacerdote ruso Kiril Lakota es liberado y enviado a Roma, donde el papa, que está enfermo, lo nombra cardenal. Mientras, el mundo vive en un estado permanente de crisis, con la Guerra Fría como telón de fondo.
Lady L
Butler
En su propiedad de la campiña francesa, Lady Landale, a quien todos conocen como Lady L, se dispone a celebrar su ochenta cumpleaños. Obispos, banqueros, diplomáticos y generales acuden a felicitar a la gran señora. Una vez terminado el banquete, Lady L conduce a su pabellón de verano al famoso escritor Sir Percy, encargado de escribir su biografía y empieza a contarle su vida.
Los felinos
Father Nielson
Un jugador profesional, que intenta escapar de un grupo de gánsters que lo buscan para matarlo, se oculta en la mansión de una millonaria que tiempo atrás asesinó a su marido. Cuando la viuda se enamora de él, el jugador se ve poco a poco involucrado en el pasado de la mujer.
Ladies Who Do
Chauffeur
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Paradisio
Professor Sims
An English professor interested in photography is given a pair of special sunglasses by an Austrian colleague. To his surprise and boyish delight, he discovers they're X-ray specs, which allow him to see through people's clothes! As he ventures across Europe, he is pursued by spies who're after the glasses. He eventually manages to elude them, and settles down to a life of ease, ogling naked women on beaches...
Watch It, Sailor!
Vicar
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Bottoms Up!
Oliver Pettigrew
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
La noche es mi enemiga
Car Salesman
Un aristócrata británico (Dirk Bogarde) que padece amnesia es acusado de asesinato, lo que desencadena una crisis entre él y su esposa (Olivia de Havilland).
Rockets Galore
Meeching
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Law and Disorder
Burrows
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
I Accuse!
Captain Lauth
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
The Film That Never Was
The Constant Husband
Clerk of the Court
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
The Glass Cage
Rutland
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
The Belles of St. Trinian's
Wilfred Woodley
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
The Intruder
Bertram Slake
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Will Any Gentleman...?
Mr. Coding
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Cosh Boy
Registrar (uncredited)
Una banda de delincuentes juveniles se dedica a atracar ancianas, pero uno de ellos empieza a cometer delitos cada vez más graves.
El hombre del traje blanco
Roberts
Sydney Stratton (Alec Guinness) es un joven investigador que, tras arduos esfuerzos, consigue inventar un tejido tan revolucionario que no se puede romper ni manchar. Sin embargo, a la alegría inicial pronto le sigue la decepción, pues tanto los empresarios como los trabajadores de la industria textil llegan a un acuerdo para impedir la fabricación y difusión del nuevo tejido. La razón es obvia: los primeros temen la ruina de sus empresas y los segundos la pérdida de sus puestos de trabajo.
Calling Bulldog Drummond
McIver's Assistant (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Cage of Gold
Registry Office Bridegroom (uncredited)
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
Secreto de Estado
Clubman
Un norteamericano (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) se da cuenta de que el monarca de un ignoto estado europeo ha sido reemplazado por un sosías.
Las últimas vacaciones
Burden
Cuando George Bird, un vendedor de maquinaria agrícola, descubre un día que le queda poco tiempo de vida, decide disfrutar al máximo de sus últimos meses. Saca todos sus ahorros del banco y se va a un lujoso hotel, donde no pierde ocasión de hacer negocios, puesto que en su situación nada tiene que perder, de modo que está dispuesto a correr cualquier riesgo.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Pasaporte para Pimlico
Bassett
Narra cómo el descubrimiento de un tratado provoca que la "Sección Pimlico", una pequeña comunidad en medio de Londres, se proclame independiente e intente actuar como tal.
Amigos apasionados
Smith - the Butler
En el Londres de la posguerra, Mary Justin se encuentra con el universitario Steve Stratton, su verdadero amor desde la juventud. Pero ahora se encuentra casada con un rico financiero bastantes años mayor que ella, ya que optó por tener una vida segura y acomodada, sin embargo el encuentro reaviva viejas llamas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Frieda
First Official
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.
The Lady Is Willing
Dr. Germont
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
La vida privada de Enrique VIII
Kitchen Helper (uncredited)
En mayo de 1536, justo después de la ejecución de su segunda esposa Ana Bolena (Merle Oberon), Enrique VIII (Charles Laughton) se casa con Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), que muere 18 meses después. A continuación desposa a la princesa alemana Anne de Cleves (Elsa Lanchester), pero el matrimonio acaba en divorcio. Su quinta esposa, la bella y ambiciosa Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes), se enamora del cortesano Enrique Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat), pero el idilio es descubierto y ambos son ejecutados.