Percival Mackey

Nascimento : 1894-06-15, London, England, UK

Morte : 1950-11-23

Filmes

Take Me To Paris
Original Music Composer
Mr. Armstrong’s racing stable is preparing to send one of its top horses to run in Paris's Maisons Lafitte, when the thoroughbred is unexpectedly injured. Its replacement is Dunderhead, lesser fancied, but favourite of jockey and stable lad, Albert. Meanwhile, two crooked stable hands plan to use the cross channel trip to smuggle forged banknotes.
When You Come Home
Original Music Composer
When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.
The Hills of Donegal
Music Director
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Loyal Heart
Conductor
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.
Loyal Heart
Original Music Composer
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.
Don Chicago
Original Music Composer
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
Meet Sexton Blake
Music
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Music
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Strawberry Roan
Music Director
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
It's in the Bag
Music
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
Headline
Music Director
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Somewhere in Civvies
Original Music Composer
Ex-army private Randle stands to receive a substantial inheritance from his uncle if he can prove he is of sound mind. However, his devious cousin tries to grab the money by having Randle committed to a psychiatric home.
I'll Walk Beside You
Music Director
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
Variety Jubilee
Music Director
This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
Somewhere on Leave
Himself
Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.
The Balloon Goes Up
Music Director
Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Music Director
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
Front Line Kids
Music Director
Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
Hard Steel
Music
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Hard Steel
Producer
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Bob's Your Uncle
Music
Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.
Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Musical
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Sheepdog of the Hills
Music Director
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
You Will Remember
Music Director
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Garrison Follies
Music Director
A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers
The Missing People
Original Music Composer
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
Anything to Declare?
Music Director
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
Jump for Glory
Original Music Composer
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Crime Over London
Music
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Chick
Music Director
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Checkmate
Music
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Honeymoon for Three
Bandleader (uncredited)
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
Charing Cross Road
Music
British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.
Death At Broadcasting House
Himself
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
This Week of Grace
Music Director
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
The Ghost Camera
Original Music Composer
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Service for Ladies
Music
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Man of Mayfair
Music
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Stamboul
Music
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
These Charming People
Music
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton