J.H. Roberts
Nascimento : 1884-07-10, London, England, UK
Morte : 1961-02-01
História
J.H. Roberts (full name John Henry Roberts) was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a film producer and television director.
Old Gent in Train
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Sallins
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Doctor
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Mr. Ambler
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Dr. Wilson
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Sir Robert McLean
No final dos anos 20, o designer da aeronaves R.J. Mitchell sente que alcançou tudo o que quer com seus revolucionários aviões monoplanos. Ganhou troféu depois de troféu. Mas um feriado na Alemanha logo após Hitler assumir o poder o convence de que é vital projetar um tipo completamente novo de avião de combate e que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, a própria sobrevivência da Grã-Bretanha pode depender do que ele vem a chamar de Spitfire.
Ford
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Residing Physician (as J.H.Roberts)
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Luis Silva
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
Tchecoslováquia, março de 1939, na véspera da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enquanto os invasores alemães ocupam Praga, o inventor Axel Bomasch consegue fugir e chegar à Inglaterra; mas aqueles que precisam colocar os seus conhecimentos ao serviço da máquina de guerra nazi, para levar a cabo os seus maléficos planos de destruição, não pararão em nada para o capturar…
Dean of Bowgate
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.
Doctor (uncredited)
O filme, baseado no romande de James Hilton, conta a história do Sr. Chipping (Robert Donnar), um respeitado professor de latim, obcecado pelo trabalho. Um dia, este homem com uma vida muito discreta, conhece e se apaixona pela extrovertida Katherine (Greer Garson). Sua convivência com a moça o torna mais amigável e ele ganha a confiança de seus alunos. Tudo parecia bem, mas uma tragédia acontece e muda sua vida novamente.
Aladdin
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
Slade
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Solicitor Henry Briggs
Suspeito de ter assassinado uma mulher, Robert Tisdall, foge e vai em busca do assassino real para provar sua inocência. Recebe ajuda da bela jovem Érika.
Mr. Glegg
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Dr. Pearson
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
President of Court (as John Roberts)
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
Chalmers
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
Butler
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
Dr. Thurston
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
Official with Gavel
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Ladcock
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Registrar
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Dr. Marford
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Judd
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
Producer
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
Dr. Sheppard
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
Dr. Churchill
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Captain Fairweather
A financial drama set in New York. After the unexpected death of Captain Fairweather, who has lost all his money to a banker, his widow and children fall further and further into misery.
Sir Robert McLean
The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II