Bruce Lester
Nacimiento : 1912-06-06, Johannesburg, South Africa
Muerte : 2008-06-13
Historia
Bruce Lester appeared in films from the 1930s into the 1950s, mainly in supporting roles. He was born Bruce Lister in Johannesburg, South Africa and later resided in England. After studying at Brighton College, he began his career on the London Stage and made his big screen debut in 1934. Lester's co-stars included Ronald Colman, Boris Karloff, James Cagney, Ray Milland and Joan Crawford. His film credits include, "To Be a Lady" (1934), "The Third Clue" (1934), "Boy Meets Girl" (1938), "The Witness Vanishes" (1939), "British Intelligence" (1940), "Pride and Prejudice" (1940), "The Letter" (1940, "Above Suspicion" (1943), "Golden Earrings" (1947), "The Fool and the Princess" (1948) and "Tarzan and the Trappers" (1958).
Commissioner Brandini
Bajo la identidad de un explorador occidental, el cazador Schroeder se dedica a capturar animales de forma furtiva para un zoológico, engañando al propio Tarzán (Gordon Scott) y su familia para lograr su colaboración. Pero Sikes, hermano del cazador, aspira a conseguir una presa mayor: el propio Tarzán.
Castelaine
Durante la Tercera Cruzada, Ricardo Corazón de León se propone expulsar a los infieles de Tierra Santa. Mientras tanto, en el campo cristiano reina la discordia: Sir Gilles Amaury y Conrad de Montferrat conspiran contra el rey y, a pesar de que el fiel Sir Kenneth Huntingdon lo previene, Ricardo no le hace caso. Una noche, un arquero enviado por los conspiradores hiere gravemente al rey. En estas circunstancias, Sir Gilles Amaury expulsa a Sir Kenneth del ejército inglés. En su exilio, Sir Kenneth, descubre la conspiración urdida por Sir Gilles y logra desenmascarar a todos los hombres que han traicionado al rey Ricardo. Finalmente cristianos y musulmanes se unen en la batalla para salvar a Lady Edith del malvado Sir Gilles y devolver el poder al rey Ricardo.
Writer
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware that the man is a murderer. "Duel at Dawn" is set in 1880s Austria. Two military officers fight a duel, with the survivor free to claim the heart of their shared love interest. "The Midas Touch" is a romance story of sorts. Jonah Watson is a successful American businessman, but is disgruntled with his life. He emigrates to England to start a new life, and works as a common servant. But he falls in love with a cockney maid who dreams of marrying into wealth.
Capt. van Buren
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware that the man is a murderer. "Duel at Dawn" is set in 1880s Austria. Two military officers fight a duel, with the survivor free to claim the heart of their shared love interest. "The Midas Touch" is a romance story of sorts. Jonah Watson is a successful American businessman, but is disgruntled with his life. He emigrates to England to start a new life, and works as a common servant. But he falls in love with a cockney maid who dreams of marrying into wealth.
Capt. Clint Bradford
Pathfinder, un hombre blanco criado por los indios mohicanos, une fuerzas con el ejército británico para vengarse de los guerreros mingo y los franceses, que han traído la muerte y el saqueo a su pueblo.
Allan-a-Dale
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
Daniels' Reporter (Uncredited)
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Larry Peters
A private detective (Bruce Lester) and an aspiring actress (Hy Hazell) join forces to thwart a man's scheme to murder his wealthy--and much older--wife. British thriller, directed by Francis Searle.
Charles (uncredited)
Después de catorce años en prisión, Frankie abandona la prisión para reencontrarse con su hermano Dave para reclamar su parte del club acordado 14 años atras
Richard Byrd
El oficial inglés, Ralph Denistoun (Ray Milland), está en la Alemania nazi cumpliendo una misión de espionaje cuyo objetivo es descubrir la fórmula del gas venenoso usado por Hitler. En el viaje conoce a Lydia (Marlene Dietrich), una hermosa gitana que le será de gran ayuda.
Roger Blythe
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Army Lieutenant (uncredited)
Kit Madden es una novelista que viaja en tren a Hollywood para colaborar en una película que se basa en su nuevo libro 'Aquí está el mañana'. Durante el trayecto conoce al marine Rusty Thomas, un caballero que discutirá con ella diversos aspectos del libro, mostrando su desacuerdo en algunos puntos, sin saber que está hablando con la autora.
Thornley
En 1939, Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray), un profesor estadounidense que enseña en Oxford, y su nueva esposa Frances (Joan Crawford) se encuentran de luna de miel por Europa. Antes de salir de viaje, el servicio secreto británico le encarga a Myles que lleve a cabo una misión en Alemania. Al principio, tanto a Myles como a su esposa les divierte su papel de espías; pero poco a poco las cosas se irán complicando.
Lt. Christopher 'Kit' Hilton
Los ciudadanos de una aldea de Cornualles se ven atormentados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial por un fantasma decapitado que ha embrujado una mina cercana.
King
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Flight Lt. Sterling Richardson
Tim Baker, joven piloto estadounidense, recala en Londres, durante la II Guerra Mundial. Durante un bombardeo de los nazis, Baker se reencuentra con Carol Brown, una antigua novia. Para impresionarla, se alista en la Real Fuerza Aérea británica (RAF), para combatir a los nazis.
Un cazador inglés que está de vacaciones en Baviera, de pronto, ve en lo alto de una colina la figura de Adolf Hitler. Convencido de que su desapariciión evitaría millones de muertos, dispara su rifle, pero se olvida de introducir una bala en la recámara. A partir de entonces será implacablemente perseguido por agentes de la Gestapo.
Dr. Bentley
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Clyde
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Hugh Bromilow
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
John Withers
La fría y calculadora esposa del propietario de una plantación de caucho en Malasia asesina a un hombre, supuestamente en defensa propia. Pero, de repente, aparece una comprometedora carta cuyo contenido echa por tierra la versión de los hechos de la protagonista.
Mr. Bingley
Elizabeth (Greer Garson) es una de las 5 hermanas Bennet, que están deseando casarse. Darcy (Lawrence Olivier) es un joven apuesto que se instala en una finca cercana y hace latir los corazones de todas las chicas. De todas menos en el caso de Elizabeth, con la que desde el primer encuentro se lleva fatal. Este será el inicio de una historia basada en la lucha discreta y elegante de orgullo y prejuicio, de percepción y realidad, de perdón y de amor.
Rory O'Riorden
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Frank Bennett
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Chaplain (uncredited)
Un hombre que va a ser ejecutado, acusado del asesinato de su hermano, recibe la visita del Dr. Griffin, hermano del científico que años atrás descubrió la fórmula de invisibilidad. El condenado huye gracias a que se hace invisible, y trata de demostrar su inocencia, pero la locura que va unida a los efectos secundarios de la fórmula para ser invisible harán acto de presencia...
Lord Noel Stratton
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Noel de Jolys
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Rodney Bowman
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Ronald Martin
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Edward O'Donnell
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
Winkler
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
2nd Lieut. Lingard
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
Peter Ridgwell
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Austin promotional short, showing a tour around the country by many Austin models, from the Seven to the Ascot.
