Charles Carson

Charles Carson

Nacimiento : 1885-08-16, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1977-08-05

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Charles Carson

Películas

Lady Caroline Lamb
Potter
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
An Ideal Husband
The Earl of Caversham
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
La maldición de la mosca
Inspector Charas
Tercera de "La mosca" (1958). En esta ocasión, muestra a una joven que escapa de una institución para enfermos mentales para esconderse en la casa de la familia Delambre. Allí se encuentra con que el líder de la familia continúa con los experimentos de teletransportación que tan nefastos resultados habían dado en las películas anteriores.
Hamlet at Elsinore
Priest
"Hamlet en Elsinor" fue una importante contribución de la BBC a las celebraciones del cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Shakespeare. Hasta entonces, las adaptaciones televisivas de Shakespeare eran exclusivamente reconstrucciones de estudio o transmisiones de producciones teatrales en vivo. Ésta fue la primera vez que una obra de larga duración fue grabada en un escenario natural: en el castillo de Kronborg, situado en en Elsinore, en Dinamarca.
Macbeth
Caithness
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
A Touch of Larceny
Robert Holland
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Soñar no cuesta nada
Mr. Ferguson
Una chica pobre de Vermont recibe una herencia de su abuelo y se dispone a cumplir el sueño de su vida, viajar a Escocia. Conoce a un inventor, que la ayuda a encontrar alojamiento en Edimburgo, y a un noble local, que la confunde con una millonaria norteamericana...
The Silken Affair
Judge
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Proa al cielo
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Douglas Bader, uno de los grandes héroes británicos de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), vio incrementada su popularidad cuando, en 1954, tras publicarse su biografía, apareció una versión abreviada de la misma en la popular revista Reader's Digest. En esa obra se basó el film de Gilbert, el más taquillero de Inglaterra desde el estreno de “Lo que El Viento se Llevó”. A pesar de que a finales de los años 20, a Bader le habían amputado las dos piernas, tras un accidente aéreo, gracias a unas prótesis de aluminio pudo participar en la Batalla de Inglaterra.
An Alligator Named Daisy
Wilfred Smethers (uncredited)
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Misión de valientes
Doctor
Los británicos están desesperados por acortar el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y proponen un atrevido bombardeo con el propósito de destrozar el corazón industrial de Alemania. Al principio, el objetivo parece imposible. Hasta que un científico británico inventa una ingeniosa arma capaz de destrozar al objetivo propuesto.
Beau Brummell
Sir Geoffrey Baker
Durante el XIX, en Inglaterra el elegante "dandy" Beau Brummell se convierte en el hombre de confianza del Príncipe de Gales. Cuando se descubre una conspiración contra Jorge III, tendrá que abandonar su placentera vida y actuar en consecuencia.
Duelo en la jungla
Skipper
Un investigador de seguros estadounidense es enviado a Rhodesia para averiguar las causas de la misteriosa muerte de un comerciante de diamantes que se ahogó mientras buceaba cerca de la costa. Como su seguro de vida era de un millón de dólares, su muerte despertó las sospechas de la aseguradora.
Moulin Rouge
Count Moïse de Camondo
París, finales del siglo XIX. El pintor impresionista Toulouse-Lautrec, miembro de una familia aristocrática francesa, se apasiona por la vida de los bajos fondos parisinos y visita con frecuencia los cabarets, el Moulin Rouge, el Lapin Agile, el Chat Noir, etc. Para muchos de ellos pintará carteles; también pintará cuadros con bailarinas de cabaret como modelos.
Cry, the Beloved Country
James Jarvis
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
The Lady with a Lamp
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Brighton, 1890. Un joven, hijo de un médico puritano, intenta escapar del represivo ambiente familiar y, sobre todo, de las restricciones que le impone su riguroso padre. Busca refugio en una taberna, donde se siente inmediatamente atraído por la sordidez de los bebedores y por los encantos de la tabernera.
The Dummy Talks
Marvello
A ventriloquist is murdered during a theatre variety performance. A dwarf goes undercover as the dummy...
They Flew Alone
Lord Wakefield
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.
Penn of Pennsylvania
Adm. Penn
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
The Common Touch
Haywood
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Quiet Wedding
Mr. Johnson
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Spare a Copper
Admiral
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
The Lion Has Wings
Anti-aircraft Officer
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
El Santo en Londres
John Morgan
Con la misión de capturar a una banda de falsificadores, el Santo viaja a Inglaterra. Una vez allí contará con la ayuda de un alocado hombre.
Inspector Hornleigh
Chief Superintendent
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
The Gang's All Here
Charles Cartwright
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
The Return of the Frog
Chief Commissioner
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
Sixty Glorious Years
Sir Robert Peel
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
We're Going to Be Rich
Keeler
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Oh, Boy!
Governor
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
Saturday Night Revue
Mr. Dorland
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
Victoria the Great
Robert Peel
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.
La mujer enigma
Head of Fifth Bureau
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un espía alemán y una espía británica se conocen y no pueden evitar enamorarse.
Glamorous Night
Otto
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Secret Lives
Henri
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Fire Over England
Adm. Valdez
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
Talk of the Devil
A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
Forget Me Not
George Arnold
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
The Beloved Vagabond
Charles Rushworth
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
El agente secreto
"R"
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundual, a tres agentes secretos ingleses se les asigna la misión de asesinar a un misterioso espía alemán. A dos de ellos se les planteará el conflicto entre el deber de cumplir la misión y sus conciencias.
Le vagabond bien-aimé
Charles Rushworth
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
La vida futura
Great Grandfather
A mitad de los años treinta, la Segunda Guerra Mundial no ha estallado todavía, pero parece sentirse en el aire que se respira. Cuando llegue, acontecimiento inexorable para los futurólogos, supondrá una conmoción que dará origen a un futuro de desastres en el que se impondrá como única forma de gobierno la más feroz de las dictaduras
Scrooge
Middlemark
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Moscow Nights
Officer of Defense
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Abdul the Damned
Gen. Hilmi-Pasha
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Francis Merrall
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Sanders of the River
Governor of the Territory
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Blind Justice
Dr. Naylor
Una mujer es chantajeada por un criminal que descubrió que su hermano fue asesinado a tiros durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Invitation To The Waltz
Lombardi
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
The Broken Melody
Colonel Dubonnet
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Whispering Tongues
Roger Mayland
When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
Catalina de Rusia
English Ambassador
En 1745, una princesa austro-húngara, que sería llamada Catalina, llega a Rusia para casarse con el Gran Duque Pedro, un hombre de carácter inestable y desconfiado. Su matrimonio no funciona y mientras el Duque se entretiene con bellas cortesanas, Catalina inventa sus propios amantes para captar su atención. Cuando el Duque llega al trono de Rusia, resulta ser un pésimo gobernante y los consejeros piden a Catalina que asuma el poder y se convierta en reina.
Blossom Time
Frederick Lafont
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
The Shadow
Sir Edward Hulme KC
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
There Goes the Bride
M. Marquand (uncredited)
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Marry Me
Korten
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Leap Year
Sir Archibald Mallard
'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)
Men of Tomorrow
Senior Proctor
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Mister Albert
Mr. Robertson
Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
The Chinese Puzzle
Armand de Rochecorbon
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
Many Waters
Henry Delauney
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Dreyfus
Colonel Georges Picquart
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.