D.A. Clarke-Smith

Nacimiento : 1888-08-02,

Muerte : 1959-03-12

Películas

La espada y la rosa
Cardinal Wolsey
En el año 1514, siendo rey de Inglaterra Enrique VIII, su hermana Mary Tudor se compromete con Luis XII, Rey de Francia, para sellar la unión entre los dos países. Pero la joven conoce a Charles Brandon, un apuesto y humilde abogado del que se enamora perdidamente.
Los papeles del Club Pickwick
Dodson
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Quo Vadis
Phaon
Cuando regresa a Roma, después de tres años en el campo de batalla, el general Marco Vinicio se enamora de Lygia. Pero ella es cristiana y sus creencias le impiden enamorarse de un guerrero. Aunque fue adoptada por un general retirado, jurídicamente es una esclava de Roma. Pero Marco consigue que el emperador Nerón se la ceda en pago por sus servicios.
Frieda
Herriot
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.
Flying Fifty-Five
Jacques Gregory
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
Murder by Rope
Hanson
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
The Happy Family
Mr. Harrison
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
En 1673, Exmoor está bajo el poder de una familia de nobles terratenientes, los Doone. Pero, tras la muerte de Cromwell, caen en desgracia, sus tierras son expropiadas y se les declara proscritos. Sin embargo, los Doone se sienten lo bastante fuertes como para desafiar al rey. La primera víctima es un campesino, cuyo hijo, John, decidido a vengar la muerte de su padre, consigue entrar al castillo de los Doone. Una vez allí, conoce a Lorna, la nieta de Lord Doone. Años después, tras servir en el ejército, John regresa a Exmoor. El conflicto con los Doone continúa y también Lorna sigue allí. (1951)
The Feathered Serpent
Joe Farmer
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
El hombre que sabía demasiado
Binstead
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.
Passing Shadows
Stranger
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
The Perfect Flaw
Louis Maddox
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
A Cup of Kindness
Mr. Finch
A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Turkey Time
Westbourne
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
Friday the Thirteenth
Max
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.
Mayfair Girl
Captain Merrow
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
El resucitado
Mahmoud
El egiptólogo británico Profesor Morlant encuentra una joya mágica en la tumba de un ídolo oriental. Se supone que este talismán otorga inmortalidad a quienes están enterrados con él. Así que Morlant hace arreglos para que lo pongan en su tumba cuando muera. Y ¡ay de aquellos que podrían traicionarlo, porque el espíritu de Morlant surgirá para vengarse de sus traidores ...
High Finance
Dodman
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Follow the Lady
Flash Bob
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Illegal
Franklyn Dean (as D.E. Clarke-Smith)
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
White Face
Dr. Rudd
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
A Voice Said Goodnight
Philip Gaylor
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
The Frightened Lady
Dr. Amersham
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.
Help Yourself
Major Fred Harris
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
The Old Man
John Lorney
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Michael and Mary
Harry Price
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
Shadows
Gruhn
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Bracelets
Joe le Sage
A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Atlantic
Freddie Tate-Hughes
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.