Sydney Howard

Filmes

When We Are Married
Henry Ormonroyd
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Mr. Proudfoot
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
Once a Crook
Hallelujah Harry
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
Shipyard Sally
Major Fitzgerald
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.
Chick
Chick Beane
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Fame
Oswald Bertwhistle
Comedy film...
Where’s George?
A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Dan Campbell, the Drunk
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Up for the Derby
Joe Burton
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
It's a King
Albert King / King Albert
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Mayor's Nest
Joe Pilgrim
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Splinters in the Navy
Joe Crabbs
To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
Up for the Cup
John Willie Entwhistle
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
Almost a Divorce
Mackintosh
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
Tilly of Bloomsbury
Samuel Stillbottle
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
French Leave
Cpl. Sykes
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
Splinters
Doleful Soldier
Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.