Graham Moffatt

Graham Moffatt

출생 : 1919-12-06, London, England, UK

사망 : 1965-07-02

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Moffatt was born on 6 December 1919 in Hammersmith, West London (England). He first worked as a call boy at Shepherd's Bush Studios, until actor Tom Walls suggested him for a bit part in the 1934 film A Cup of Kindness. Moffatt appeared in five more films, in mostly uncredited, minor roles, before getting his big break in Will Hay's Where There's Will (1936), then going on to appear in many more of Hay's films, alongside Moore Marriott.

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Graham Moffatt

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Inn for Trouble
Jumbo Gudge
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
The Yokel
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
The Second Mate
Paddy
Murderous smugglers kidnap a troublesome Bargemans son in this British crime drama, filmed on the Thames.
Woman Hater
Fat Boy
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
내가 가는 곳은 어디인가
R.A.F. Sergeant
어려서부터 자신이 추구하는 것을 확실하게 알았던 조안(Joan Webster: 웬디 힐러 분)은 진정으로 사랑하지는 않지만 돈이 많은 중년의 실업계 거부와 결혼하기로 한다.' 사람들의 눈을 피해 조용히 킬로란이란 섬에서 결혼식을 하기 위해 길을 떠난 조안은 변덕스런 섬의 날씨 때문에 킬로란을 코앞에 두고 인근 섬에서 발이 묶인다. 한편 킬로란의 주인이며, 군인인 토퀼 맥닐(Torquil MacNeil: 로저 리브세이 분) 또한 8일간 받은 휴가를 보내기 위해 킬로란으로 향하다가 조안과 같이 발이 묶이게 된다. 킬로란으로 가는 배를 기다리면서 같이 시간을 보내게 된다. 하지만 진정한 사랑보다는 물질적 풍요를 최고로 추구하던 조안이 차츰 토퀼을 사랑하게 되는 자신을 깨닫고, 그 사랑을 피하고자 무리를 해서라도 킬로란에 가려고 한다. 그런 조안의 마음을 모르는 상태에서 토퀼은 배를 운행할 만큼 좋은 날씨가 될 때까지 기다리도록 설득하려고 애쓰지만 조안은 끝까지 돈으로 뱃사람을 사 킬로란으로 향하려 한다. 뒤늦게 카트리나의 얘기로 조안의 마음을 알게 된 토퀼 또한 그 배에 동승하게 되지만 엄청난 소용돌이 속에서 겨우 살아나 다시 묵었던 섬으로 되돌아오게 된다. 그러나 서로의 사랑을 확실하게 알게 된 두 사람은 결국 진정한 사랑을 택하는데...
캔터베리 이야기
Sergt. Stuffy
늦은 밤, 기차가 캔터베리 인근 마을에 정차한 후 떠난다. 인근 부대로 발령을 받은 영국 군인 피터, 캔터베리인 줄 알고 내린 미국 군인 밥, 그리고 일자리를 구하려는 앨리슨이 기차에서 내렸다. 그런데 어둠 속에서 나타난 괴한이 앨리슨의 머리에 접착제를 들이붓고 도망친다. 세 사람은 이렇게 여자만 공격하는 일이 심심찮게 있었다는 사실을 알게 되고, 앨리슨은 피터와 밥에게 괴한을 잡도록 도와 달라고 한다. 제목에서 알 수 있듯이 영시의 아버지로 불리는 제프리 초서의 걸작 『캔터베리 이야기』에서 영감을 얻은 작품이다. 마이클 파웰과 에머릭 프레스버거가 독일 출신 촬영 감독 어윈 힐리어와 처음 작업했으며, 영국 리얼리즘과 독일 표현주의 스타일이 섞여 있다.
Welcome, Mr Washington
Albert Brown
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
Time Flies
His Nephew
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Back-Room Boy
Albert
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Hi Gang!
Albert Tomlin
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
I Thank You
Albert
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Albert Brown
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Cheer Boys Cheer
Albert Baldwin
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Where's That Fire
Albert Brown
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
Ask a Policeman
Albert
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Old Bones of the River
Albert Brown
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R.P for short), and dedicated to spreading education amongst the natives of colonial Africa. As he arrives (still trying to learn the native language via recordings), Professor Tibbetts is tricked into sneaking a gin still into the country by a local prince. Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb and Tibbetts finds himself sporting a mortarboard and safari shorts due to the heat. When the Commissioner falls ill with a dose of malaria, Tibbetts is forced to take over his duties, which include collecting the taxes. Upriver, he finds an old paddlesteamer operated by Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the threesome rescue a baby from death by sacrifice.
Convict 99
Albert Brown
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Owd Bob
Tammas
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Oh, Mr. Porter!
Albert Brown
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
Doctor Syn
Jerry Jerk
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Gangway
Joe
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Good Morning, Boys!
Albert Brown
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
O-Kay for Sound
Albert, the page boy
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
Windbag the Sailor
Albert
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
All In!
Boy on Slot Machine
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Where There's a Will
Willie, The Office Boy
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
The Clairvoyant
Page Boy (uncredited)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Story
A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.