David Farrar
Nacimiento : 1908-08-21, Forest Gate, London, England
Muerte : 1995-08-31
Historia
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David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London.
Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950).
He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter.
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Xerxes
Grecia, año 480 a.C. Trescientos soldados espartanos capitaneados por el general Leónidas se enfrentan al poderosísimo ejército persa de Jerjes en la batalla de las Termópilas. Alguien le hace saber al general que el enemigo es tan poderoso que sus flechas "oscurecerán el cielo".
Paul Webster
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
Paul Linden
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
Pharaoh
Drama histórico sobre el famoso relato bíblico, en el que el Rey David tiene una visión en la que Dios le comunica que su joven hijo Salomón le sucederá en el trono, lo que provoca los celos de su otro hijo: Adonijah.
John Wilkes
Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos (1775-1783). Relato sobre la épica historia de John Paul Jones, el primer gran héroe de la marina americana. Tras pasar su juventud en Escocia, consiguió impresionantes victorias frente a la marina británica. Fue un marino que destacó por su valentía, sus extraordinarias cualidades de estratega y su capacidad de liderazgo para conducir América hacia la libertad. Sin embargo, sus enfrentamientos con el Congreso lo convirtieron en un hombre problemático y acabó siendo destinado a Rusia para dirigir la armada de la zarina Catalina la Grande.
Rick Cobb
Continuación de las legendarias ”Minas del rey Salomón”. El hijo del protagonista de aquélla, está dispuesto a encontrar como sea las famosas minas, por lo que no tarda en organizar un safari en colaboración con un antiguo compañero de su padre. El grupo de exploradores debe enfrentarse a continuos peligros para encontrar uno de los mayores y mejor guardados tesoros del planeta.
Des Roches
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Mathieu Dreyfus
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.
David Kirby
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
Narrator
En los primeros años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Royal Navy libra una batalla desesperada para mantener abiertas las rutas de convoyes en el Atlántico y poder abastecer a las islas británicas, enfrentándose así al gran peligro que suponen los numerosos buques de guerra alemanes que, como el Admiral Graf Spee, recorren el océano en busca de cargueros que hundir.
Detective Inspector Craig
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Bully Hague
Tres aventureros llegan a los mares del Sur con la intención de apoderarse de unas valiosas perlas negras, pero, para conseguirlo tendrán que enfrentarse a un peligroso grupo de nativos y, sobre todo, a un pulpo gigante que custodia la cueva donde se encuentran las perlas.
Commander Jeff Napier
Estamos en 1939, puerto de Sidney, Australia, instantes antes del comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Carl Ehrlich es el capitán del carguero alemán Ergenstrass, a quien su escasa simpatía por los nazis ha privado de su rango militar, se apuesta con su amigo de la infancia, el comandante Jeff Napier, que es capaz de salir de Sidney burlando el bloqueo. Mientras tanto, el cónsul alemán le exige a Ehrlich que tome como pasajera a Elsa von Schwepp, una aventurera que en esos momentos trabaja para los servicios secretos alemanes, y novia de Napier.
The Sawbwa
En la antigua Birmania dominada por los ingleses, una joven ha heredado una plantación de té en Oriente. Los problemas se le multiplican a la muchacha, pero sabe vencerlos con coraje, hasta que un peligro superior la acecha cuando un perseguido por la justicia busca cobijo en sus posesiones.
Charles King
Una joven actriz debe decidir cuál de sus dos amantes será su marido. Ella sueña despierta sobre quién de los dos es mejor, imaginándoselos como nobles, para así poderse decidir.
Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
Inglaterra, reinado de Enrique IV (1399-1413). Después de una larga cacería, Sir Robert llega a la posada del joven Myles y su hermana Meg. Allí su despotismo provoca una gran pelea. A raíz de ello, Myles y su hermana se ven obligados a huir, pero son perseguidos por los hombres de Sir Robert.
Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
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.
Sir Guy of Devon
En 1220, un pequeño grupo de cruzados ingleses llega a Samarkanda, donde el gobierno de la princesa Shalimar se ve amenazado por las hordas de Gengis Khan. Shalimar espera derrotar al conquistador valiéndose de la astucia. Sin embargo, Sir Guy, uno de los caballeros cruzados, propone la guerra. A pesar de la mutua atracción entre Shalimar y Sir Guy, sus contradictorios proyectos amenazan cualquier esperanza de éxito. (FILMAFFINITY)
Giles Gordon
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Gregory Black
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
John Reddin
Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) es una muchacha crecida entre la naturaleza, que vive en los confines de Shropshire a finales del siglo XIX. Es hija de un arpista ciego, y vive obsesionada por las supersticiones de su difunta madre. A pesar de la atracción que siente por el sádico señor del lugar, Jack Reddin (David Farrar), Hazel accede a contraer matrimonio con el sumiso reverendo Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack).
Bill Glennan
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.
Stafford Parker
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Sammy Rice
Sammy Rice es un científico experto en bombas, con graves heridas de guerra, que sólo consigue calmar el dolor gracias a las pastillas y al alcohol; vive encerrado en sí mismo por un comportamiento autodestructivo y con una inestable relación con su novia Susan. Cuando sus superiores le ordenan que investigue sobre un nuevo tipo de bomba trampa creada por los alemanes, los nervios y la resolución de Sammy llegarán a sus límites.
David Traill
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Robert Dawson
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.
Mr. Dean
Un grupo de monjas occidentales abre un hospital en un antiquísimo templo del Himalaya. A las dificultades económicas y a la hostilidad de los nativos, pronto se suman las tensiones entre las propias monjas. Un agente británico intentará mediar entre ellas para solucionar sus problemas, pero su presencia acabará despertando, con consecuencias fatales, la sexualidad reprimida de algunas hermanas.
David Warren
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Sid Nichols
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Sexton Blake
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Paul Collyer
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
Murray
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
George Graham
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
Dick Marlow
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
'Brookie ' Brooks
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Tom Danton
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Commander Lippinscott
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Lieutenant Jung
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)
Inspector Thompson
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
Reverend Michael Varney
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Martin
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Viking Bo'sun
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
Granite Grant
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Dr. Young
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
