Peter Birch

Nascimento : 1900-10-10, Lewes, Sussex, England, UK

Morte : 1992-12-31

Filmes

The Silent Playground
Sound Mixer
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
Seventy Deadly Pills
Sound Recordist
A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
The Bespoke Overcoat
Sound Recordist
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
King of the Underworld
Sound Recordist
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
Fitness Wins: 4 and 20 Fit Girls
Sound Recordist
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
I Met a Murderer
Sound Recordist
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.
Rhodes of Africa
Sound
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
Seven Sinners
Sound Recordist
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
Os 39 Degraus
Sound Recordist
Considerado como o expoente máximo da fase britânica, este clássico hitchcockiano retrata a perseguição selvagem contra um homem, envolvido numa trama de espionagem e mistério que lutará com todas as suas forças para provar a sua inocência. O herói dessa história é um simpático cidadão, meio desajeitado, mas corajoso, Richard Hannay que, de férias em Londres, conhece uma mulher misteriosa que lhe conta algo sobre um caso de espionagem. Antes que pudesse revelar mais detalhes sobre o caso, ela é assassinada. E Hannay, mesmo correndo perigo de vida, decide resolver o mistério.
Oh, Daddy!
Sound Recordist
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
Dirty Work
Sound Recordist
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
Little Friend
Recording Supervision
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Red Ensign
Sound Recordist
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Evergreen
Sound Recordist
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
The Fire Raisers
Sound
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
Channel Crossing
Sound Recordist
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
Strictly Business
Sound
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Tell England
Sound Recordist
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
Young Woodley
Sound
A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.