John Longden
Nacimiento : 1900-11-11, West Indies
Muerte : 1971-05-26
Historia
John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.
Prof. Hubbard
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
Munch
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Julian Caesar
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
Chief Inspector Lomax
El profesor Quatermass descubre por casualidad, investigando un área de mucha actividad de meteoritos, una instalación gubernamental secreta rodeada de fuertes medidas de seguridad. Aparentemente el misterioso complejo se dedica a la fabricación de comida sintética, pero Quatermass llega a la terrible conclusión de que los extraterrestres están invadiendo la Tierra usando esta instalación como tapadera. Para salvar al país y al mundo entero de los invasores, Quatermass deberá enfrentarse a peligros terribles con un final incierto.
Richard Sandford
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Detective
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Worthington
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
Speaker in Connaught Rooms
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Mr. Kemp
Robert Ayres is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by a car he stops to see if he can help. What he gets for his efforts is a vicious belt to the head from a lead cosh. He is then relieved of his wallet and his car. Several minutes later having somewhat recovered, he staggers to a nearby farmhouse and collapses.
Sherlock Holmes
Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.
DI Williams
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
The Abbot
Durante la Revolución Francesa, la Pimpinela Escarlata (Sir Percy Blakeney) arriesga su vida para rescatar aristócratas franceses de la guillotina y ponerlos a salvo a través del Canal de la Mancha. Pero un embajador inglés, obsesionado con llevar a la Pimpinela Escarlata ante la justicia, chantajea a la mujer de Sir Percy… quien ni siquiera sabe que su marido es el temerario libertador.
Inspector James
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Captain O'Sullivan
The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.
Mortimer Digby
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Tod Jenkins
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
Jost Meertens
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
Inspector Slade
Inspector Slade investigates a murder.
Metcalf
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Ground Officer (uncredited)
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
Commander
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Bill
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Stuart Gordon
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.
Narrator
A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.
Passport officer
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Unnamed Character
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.
Raven (uncredited)
La historia se desarrolla entre mediados del siglo XIX y la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). A la escuela de Brookfield llega un joven y tímido profesor que dedica toda su vida a enseñar a varias generaciones de alumnos.
Captain Johnson (uncredited)
Última película inglesa de Hitchcock, antes de su etapa americana. A finales del siglo XVIII, Mary (Maureen O'Hara), una joven huérfana irlandesa, va a Cornuailles para reunirse con su tía Patience, cuyo marido tiene una posada en la costa. Se trata de un lugar sórdido, cuyos huéspedes son bandidos que se dedican al saqueo de barcos y gozan de una impunidad total porque el cabecilla de la banda es un hombre respetable, un juez de paz (Charles Laughton) que les proporciona la información necesaria sobre el paso de las naves.
John Peters, a Pilot
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
Inspector Bliss
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Inspector Thompson
Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.
Det. Insp. Kent
Robert Tisdall encuentra en la playa el cuerpo sin vida de una joven. Corre en busca de ayuda, pero dos muchachas lo ven y, creyendo que es el asesino, lo denuncian a la policía. Robert se ve obligado a huir, a pesar de su inocencia. En su desesperado intento de probar que no es el culpable, sólo contará con la ayuda de una chica.
Police Inspector Merton
A showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.
Peter Ashton
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.
Bill Peel
Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
Dean Maitland
Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career. The Dean denies responsibility for both the pregnancy of his lover Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), and the death of her father, whom it turns out was enraged at the Dean's behaviour, attacked him and was killed in a fall. His friend, Dr. Everard (John Warwick), is found guilty of the death on false evidence, and Maitland allows him to suffer 20 years imprisonment. When the doctor is released from prison, bitter and seeking revenge, the Dean must confront his silence and his guilt, and the climax is the Dean's confession from the pulpit of his sins...
Frank Dale
A humble girl's rise to fame.
Hugh Bromilow
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Writer
A British crime film directed by John Longden
Director
A British crime film directed by John Longden
Tony Benedik
Wealthy businessman F.X. Benedik, Head of the Rynox company, claims to have been receiving threats from a mysterious stranger named Boswell Marsh. Benedik is subsequently found murdered and the hunt is on for the elusive Marsh. Benedik's son Tony takes over the running of the business and tries to find some lead on Marsh, and why he should have borne a murderous grudge against Benedik Senior. His investigations lead him to the unexpected finding that Marsh never existed.
Harry Crawford
'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Boyfriend
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Harry Fielding
A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself.
Inspector Wembury
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
Charles Hornblower
Basada en una obra de teatro, es la historia de una furiosa rivalidad entre un propietario rural y su vecino, un industrial advenedizo.
Jeffrey
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky
An old Jew is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Lieutenant Boris Boriskoff
In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
Himself
Hitchcock filmó algunas de las secuencias de esta película compuesta por sketches y números de music-hall. En ella se parodia el cine policíaco, la versión de "La fierecilla domada" (Shakespeare) llevada al cine por Douglas Fairbanks y Mary Pickford e incluso la televisión.
Charles Bentham
Adaptación de la obra de Sean O'Casey sobre una familia irlandesa que recibe una herencia y se ve corrompida por la riqueza.
Lanchester
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
Detective Frank Webber
Londres, 1929. Frank Webber, un detective de Scotland Yard muy ocupado, parece estar más interesado en su trabajo que en Alice White, su novia. Sintiéndose ignorada, Alice acepta salir con un elegante artista de educadas maneras que la invita a visitar su lujoso apartamento.
Man from China (uncredited)
Melodrama sobre el mundo del espectáculo, lleno de tensión sexual y racial. La estrella americana de origen chino Anna May Wong alias "Shosho", era una ayudante de cocina en un club de moda de Londres. Su danza exótica y sensual sobre una mesa llama la atención de Wilmot Valentine, el dueño del club, que se obsesiona con ella, provocando los amrgos celos de Mabel, su amante y bailarina estrella del local.
Writer
The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer
No. 1
The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer
An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.