Jerry Verno

Jerry Verno

Рождение : 1895-07-26, London, England, UK

Смерть : 1975-06-29

История

Jerry Verno (26 July 1895 - 29 June 1975) was a British film actor.

Профиль

Jerry Verno

Фильмы

Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Old Man, at The Spike
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
The Plague of the Zombies
Landlord
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
A Place to Go
Nobby Knowles
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Watch It, Sailor!
Cab driver
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
After the Ball
Harry Ball
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
Красотки из Сент-Триниан
Alf - the Bookmaker
Приезд дочери султана принцессы Фатимы в известную и престижную английскую «Школу для юных леди» принес больше суматохи, чем обычно. Конь её отца — Арабский Мальчик вскоре должен участвовать в скачках, поэтому Кларенс Фиттон, брат директриссы Миллисент, просит свою дочь докладывать ему об успехах коня. В то же время полиция устраивает сержанта Руби Гейтса в качестве учителя в школу, а Министерство образования отправляет уже третьего по счету инспектора, так как первые два бесследно исчезли.
Dear Mr. Prohack
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
The Perfect Woman
Drunk on Subway Platform
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Красные башмачки
Stage-Door Keeper
Балет по мотивам сказки Ганса Христиана Андерсена о паре волшебных туфелек, которые наделяют танцора способностью сказочно танцевать, но не дают остановиться, приносит огромный успех Джулиану и Виктории. Виктория влюбляется в талантливого композитора и выходит за него замуж, несмотря на возражения ревнующего Бориса, который предупреждает, что она зачеркивает свое блестящее будущее. Так начинается конфликт между импресарио и влюбленными.
The Common Touch
Office Messenger
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Girl in the News
Charlie, Prisoner in Police Car (Uncredited)
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.
The Chinese Bungalow
Stubbins
All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas). But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.
Anything to Declare?
Hugo Guppy
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.
Queer Cargo
Slops
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
Old Mother Riley in Paris
Joe
Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.
Oh, Boy!
Shopwalker
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
Молодой и невинный
Lorry Driver
Роберт Тисдолл становится главным подозреваемым по делу об убийстве актрисы. Все улики складываются не в его пользу — девушка задушена поясом от его плаща. Дело ведет полицейский полковник Бергойн, уверенный в виновности Роберта. Но дочь полицейского, очаровательная Эрика, считает, что расследование пошло по ложному пути, и у молодых людей завязывается романтическое чувство…
Non-Stop New York
Steward
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Farewell Again
Pvt. George Judd
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.
Sensation
Spikey
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Любовь паяца
Beppe
Эта визуально красивая киноадаптация «Паяцев» спета на английском языке, с музыкой Леонкавалло. Синьор Канио, руководит комико-оперной труппой, гастролирующей по итальянским провинциям. На сцене Канио, одетый в клоуна, шут и балагур, смеющийся над всеми. Вне сцены он мучается от осознания того, что его прекрасная молодая жена влюблена в красивого солдата Сильвио. Эти реальные страдания в конечном итоге переходят на сцену с трагическими последствиями.
Let's Ask the Ladies
Mannequins in Co-operative Wholesale Society window come to life.
Gypsy Melody
Madame Beatrice
Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved.
Broken Blossoms
Bert
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Ourselves Alone
Private Parsley
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Pearley
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
39 ступеней
Salesman on the Flying Scotsman
Ричард знакомится в Лондонском мюзикхолле с Аннабеллой, которая просит укрыть ее от идущих по ее следу убийц. Ричард не воспринимает это всерьез, но разрешает ей переночевать у него. Той же ночью девушка вваливается в его спальню с ножом в спине… Бегущего в панике Ричарда принимают за убийцу-маньяка и полиция всей Англии начинает охоту. Чтобы доказать свою невиновность, ему придется пройти все круги Ада…
There Goes the Bride
Clark - the chauffeur
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...
His Wife's Mother
Henry
A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
His Lordship
Bert Gibbs
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
My Friend the King
Jim
Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A plot is afoot by sinister forces to kidnap Ludwig, and Jim becomes caught up in the drama. After the child is abducted Jim uses all his ingenuity, including cross-dressing as a Countess and becoming involved in a car chase, to rescue him from his captors.
Hotel Splendide
Jerry Mason
Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when he sees it is a quiet place with few permanent residents. Gentleman Charlie, a jewel thief arrives after a long spell in prison expecting to be able to dig up the pearls he had buried - only to find the hotel has been built on the site.
The Beggar Student
Jan Janski
Simultaneously filmed English language version of a period operetta, in which a Polish noblewoman is romantically linked with a revolutionary student activist.
Two Crowded Hours
Jim
A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself.