Jerry Desmonde
출생 : 1908-07-20, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, England
사망 : 1967-02-11
약력
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Jerry Desmonde (20 July 1908 - 11 February 1967) was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom. Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond.
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Production Manager
A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Mr. Walter Hunter
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
Swimming Pool MC
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Sir Hector
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
Customs Chief
A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
TV Compère (uncredited)
영국 북부에 사는 노동 계급 청년 빅 브라운은 심심풀이로 타자수인 잉그릿을 만나다, 그녀가 임신을 하자 가족과 친구들로부터 애정 없는 결혼을 할 것을 강요받는다. 폭군 같은 장모의 횡포에 두 사람의 관계는 더욱 힘들어지는데...
Vernon Carew
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Prime Minister Voudel
샤도프 왕은 자신의 나라에서 일어난 혁명을 피해 왕실의 보물과 재산을 빼돌려 뉴욕으로 건너온다. 하지만 뉴욕에 도착하자마자 수상이 그의 모든 돈을 들고 도망쳐 버리고, 그는 일순간에 빈털터리가 된다. 절망에 빠진 샤도프 왕은 젊은 TV 탤런트겸 선전원인 앤 케이의 술수로 TV에 진출하게 되고, 이로 인해 큰 인기를 얻는데...
Blue Eagle
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law.
Maj. Willoughby
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Jackson
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
Parker
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
August Freeman
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
General
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
Alf Donklin
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
Dress Shop Owner
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Col. Lovelace
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
George
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as merely an understudy and bit player. His faithful daughter pulls a few fast ones in order to get her dad back on stage in a starring role....
