Beckett Bould

Nacimiento : 1880-09-28, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

Muerte : 1970-09-25

Películas

Don't Bother to Knock
Old Man
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
Amargo silencio
Arkwright
Al negarse a participar en una huelga, Tom Curtis tiene que hacer frente a las airadas represalias de los demás trabajadores y a los reproches de su mujer, que no entiende las razones por las que mantiene una postura tan impopular en perjuicio de su seguridad.
La Carne y el Demonio
Old Angus
El doctor Robert Knox imparte clases de anatomía a jóvenes estudiantes en la Academia que lleva su nombre. Al concluir una de sus clases, el prestigioso Knox recibe la visita de su prima, mientras horas más tarde se cita a altas horas de la madrugada con Billy Burke y William Hare, un par de siniestros personajes del pueblo que proveen al veterano profesor de cadáveres recientes para sus prácticas. El modus operandi de Burke y Hare resulta siempre el mismo en sus inicios: el asesinato de viejos sin recursos económicos perpetrados cerca o dentro de la casa del primero, provista de habitaciones para huéspedes, que regenta junto a su esposa. Pero el perfil de las víctimas cambia cuando Hare intenta violar a Mary Patterson, la díscola y alcohólica prometida de Christopher Jackson, uno de sus alumnos menos brillantes de la clase de anatomía cuyas clases dirige Knox.
Second Fiddle
General
Deborah y Charles se aman locamente. Trabajan en una agencia de publicidad, una de cuyas normas más estrictas es prohibir que una mujer casada trabaje para la empresa...
Rock You Sinners
McIver
In the early days of rock and roll, a disc jockey and his friend, a writer, want to put a rock show on TV.
Soñar no cuesta nada
Rev. MacDonald
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...
Fighting Mad
Jake
Muscles Tanner, a boxer, gives up the ring after two fatalities and emigrates to Canada and gets involved with two crooked lumbermen trying to evict a landowner from his plot.
Lease of Life
Mr. Sproatley
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
What Every Woman Wants
Grandfather Brown
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Portrait of Clare
Bissell
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Loyal Heart
Burton
This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is unsuccessful in his efforts to purchase Beth for his own, he spitefully accuses the dog’s owner of sheep stealing.
Read All About It
1st Policeman
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
The Shipbuilders
Peter Menzies
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
The Day Will Dawn
Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Old Mother Riley's Circus
Davis
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
South Riding
Foreman on Road Building Site
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
The Outcast
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
Black Diamonds
John Morgan
Inspired by the Cadeby Main pit disaster, this is former miner and amateur director Charles Hanmer's innovative and audaciously ambitious feature debut. It's the tale of brassy Yorkshireman John Morgan's (played by Dewsbury's Beckett Bould) quest to convince an MP to finance a film about pit life. Threading stories about safety and technology with sketches of miners' hobbies, it's a holistic portrait of Barnsley pitmen.