Basil Radford

Basil Radford

출생 : 1897-06-25, Chester, England, UK

사망 : 1952-10-20

약력

Arthur Basil Radford was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

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Basil Radford

참여 작품

The Galloping Major
Idea
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
The Galloping Major
Major Arthur Hill
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Chance of a Lifetime
Dickinson
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Ha'penny Breeze
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yacht race. Winning will mean orders for new boats and life for the village.
핌리코행 여권
Gregg
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
위스키를 가득히!
Captain Paul Waggett
1943년 스코틀랜드 아우터 헤브리디스 제도의 '토디 섬(Island of Todday)' 사람들은 전쟁 때문에 위스키 공급을 제대로 받지 못해 모두 절망에 빠져 있었다. 이 와중에 영국군 상사 '오드'는 섬에 돌아와 이 지역에서 우체국을 운영하는 조셉 마크룬의 딸 페기에게 청혼을 하고 온순한 학교선생님 조지 캠벨을 마크론의 둘째 딸과 결혼을 약속하지만 엄하기로 소문난 그의 어머니는 결코 이 결혼을 허락하지 않을 기세다. 안개가 자욱한 어느 날 밤 화물선 '캐비넷 미니스터'호가 좌초되어 바다에 떠 있자 마을 사람 비퍼와 샘이 배를 저어 화물선에 다가가고 화물선을 탈출하여 나오는 선원들로부터 이 배에 5만 상자의 위스키가 실려 있다는 소식을 듣는다. 둘이 황급히 달려가 이 소식을 마을 사람들에게 전하자 모두는 기쁨을 감추지 못한다. 독선적이고 위압적인 이 섬의 지역방위군 지휘관 '왜거트' 대위는 이 사실을 알고 오드 상사에게 화물선을 철저히 감시하라고 지시하지만 우체국장 마크룬은 이 섬의 오랜 전통에 의해 위스키가 없이는 결혼식 파티를 열 수 없다는 사실을 오드 상사에게 귀뜸해 준다. 위스키가 없으면 결혼도 할 수 없다는 생각을 품게 된 오드 상사의 묵인 하에 마을 사람들은 보트를 타고 난파선에 다가가 엄청나게 많은 양의 위스키를 실어내 오고 덕분에 위스키를 잔뜩 마신 학교선생님 캠벨은 술의 힘을 빌어 고집 세고 터프한 어머니에게 용감히 맞서 카트리나와 결혼을 선언한다. 드디어 캠벨과 오드 상사의 결혼식 파티가 벌어지고 마을 사람들은 넘쳐나는 위스키와 함께 흥겨운 파티를 마음껏 즐긴다. 한편 섬사람들이 위스키를 몰래 빼냈다는 사실을 알아차린 왜거트 대위는 본토의 관세청 관리와 함께 위스키를 찾아 나서고, 마을 사람들은 결혼식 파티를 일단 중지하고 위스키를 감추기 위해 그들과 한판승을 벌이는데... (EBS)
Stop Press Girl
The Mechanical Type
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
It's Not Cricket
Maj. Bright
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Helter Skelter
Maj. Bright
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Quartet
Henry Garnet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
The Winslow Boy
Desmond Curry
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
A Girl in a Million
A man gets divorced from a nagging wife meets a girl in a million. Or is she?
The Captive Heart
Major Ossy Dalrymple
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
악몽의 밤
George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
별장 대축을 의뢰받은 건축가가 별장에서 사람들을 만나고 5개의 에피소드를 듣으면서 이상한 느낌에 싸인다. 전에 자신이 이곳에 왔었다는 생각을 갖게 되는데, 이런 것을 꿈이나 무의식적 경험에 의한 대자비 현상이라고 한다. 이런 현실과 환상, 혼령이 살아나고 인형이 살아나는 아주 독특한 공포적 초현실적인 이야기를 담고 있다.
구름 속의 자니
'Tiny' Williams
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Dear Octopus
Kenneth
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Millions Like Us
Charters
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Flying Fortress
Captain Wilkinson
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
London Scrapbook
Himself
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Unpublished Story
Lamb
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
The Next of Kin
Careless Talker on Train
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
The Flying Squad
Sederman
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Crook's Tour
Hawtrey Charters
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
뮌헨행 야간열차
Charters
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Girl in the News
Doctor Threadgrove
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Just William
Mr. Sidway
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
The Girl Who Forgot
Mr. Barradine
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
The Four Just Men
(uncredited)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
자메이카 여인숙
Lord George
조스가 운영하는 자마이카 여인숙은 지나가는 배를 난파시켜 생존자들을 살해하고 물건들을 약탈하는 해적들의 근거지이다. 메리는 이모를 찾아 아일랜드를 떠나 자마이카 여인숙으로 오는 도중 험프리 경내에 머물게 된다. 메리는 자마이카 여인숙으로 갈 말을 빌려달라고 하나 험프리 경은 그녀에게 그곳에 가지 말라고 경고한다. 히치콕 감독이 미국으로 가기 전 영국에서 만든 마지막 작품으로 그의 최악의 영화로 알려졌으나 개봉당시 박스 오피스 히트작이었다.
She Couldn't Say No
Lord Pilton
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
Spies of the Air
Bill Madison
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Let's Be Famous
Watson
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Trouble Brewing
Guest at Madame Berdi's
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Climbing High
Reggie Baird
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
사라진 여인
Charters
반드리카를 여행 중인 영국인 처녀 아이리스 헨더슨은 별로 내키지 않은 약혼자와 결혼을 앞두고 귀국하려는 중이다. 역전에서 중년의 영국 부인과 알게 되는데, 이때 누군가에 의해 건물 2층에서 물건이 떨어져 머리를 다친다. 결국 열차에 오르자 마자 의식을 잃었다가 그 부인의 따뜻한 보살핌으로 깨어난다. 그후 식당칸에서 부인과 차를 마시며 이야기를 나누다가, 이름을 묻자 프로이라고 대답하는데, 기차의 기적 소리 때문에 들리지 않자 창문에 프로이라는 자신의 이름을 써서 가르쳐준다. 그런데 두통 때문에 객차에서 잠시 잠이 들었다가 깨어났을 때, 앞에 앉아있던 프로이 부인은 온데 간데 없어지고 없다. 옆에 있던 사람들도 모두들 모른다는 것이다. 식당칸에서 프로이 부인에게 설탕을 건네 주었던 컬디컷과 차터스라는 영국인은 크리켓 국제전을 보기 위해 귀국 중이었는데, 사람이 없어져 열차가 늦어질 까봐 자신들도 못봤다고 대답한다. 그리고 애인과 밀애를 즐기던 토드헌터 부부라는 사람도 이것이 사람들에게 알려질까봐 못봤다고 대답해, 결국 사람들은 아이리스가 착각한 것으로만 생각한다. 이에 아이리스는 자신이 착각한 것일지도 모른다고 생각하는데, 식당칸의 창문에 프로이라는 글자를 보고는 꿈이 아님을 알게 된다. 이때 전날 여관에서 시끄럽게 했다고 다투었던 음악가 길버트와 만나게 되어 그와 함께 프로이 부인을 찾아나서게 된다. 이때 명성 높은 독일 의사 하르츠 박사와 알게 되는데, 그가 비밀 정보를 알고 있는 프로이 부인을 독일로 빼돌리려는 음모를 꾸민 장본인이었다.
Convict 99
Deputy Governor
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.
영 앤 이노센트
Erica's Uncle Basil
인기 상승의 젊은 여배우가 해안에서 시체로 발견된다. 이를 발견한 로버트 티스달은 구조를 청하기 위해 뛰어가는데, 해변에 놀러왔던 두 여자가 그를 보고 살인을 저지른 후, 달아나는 것으로 오인한다. 로버트는 경찰의 심문을 받게 되고, 정황적인 증거에 의해 살인 혐의를 받는다. 그는 결백함을 증명하고자 법원에서 도망쳐 실제 범인을 추적하는데, 도중에 에리카라는 여자의 도움을 받게 된다. 에리카는 경찰국장의 딸이지만, 순진한 청년 로버트를 믿고, 그의 결백함을 증명하고 진짜 살인범을 잡기 위한 동행길에 오르게 되는데...
Jump for Glory
Defending Counsel
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Dishonour Bright
Henry Crane
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
Broken Blossoms
Mr. Reed
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Foreign Affaires
Basil Mallory
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!
A Southern Maid
Tom
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
Leave It to Smith
Sir John Moynton
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
There Goes the Bride
Rudolph (uncredited)
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Seven Days' Leave
Corporal
While a Canadian soldier recovers in London, a nurse tells him that a Scottish widow believes he is her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. Seven Days Leave is a screen adaption of one of James M. Barrie's plays, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
Barnum Was Right
Standish
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.