Frederick Piper

Frederick Piper

Рождение : 1902-09-23, London, England, UK

Смерть : 1979-09-22

Профиль

Frederick Piper

Фильмы

Burke & Hare
Lodger
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
One Way Pendulum
Usher
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Бекет
Monk (uncredited)
Генрих II окружен завистниками и интриганами. Единственный человек, которому правитель Англии всецело доверяет, — Томас Бекет. Он — слуга и наставник, военный советник и соучастник амурных похождений короля. Чтобы подчинить себе могучего противника — католическую церковь, — Генрих добивается избрания Бекета архиепископом Кентерберийским. Но веселый гуляка, плюющий на законы, неожиданно превращается в жесткого и целеустремленного политика, жаждущего укрепить авторитет церкви. Бывшие друзья превращаются в злейших врагов, и между ними разгорается тотальная война…
Catacombs
Police Inspector Merkot
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
The Piper's Tune
Gonzalez (The Traitor)
A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
Only Two Can Play
Mr. Davies
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
Sam
The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
Какое надувательство!
Hearse Driver
Согласно завещанию покойного дядюшки, чтобы вступить в обладание наследством, Эрни и другие претенденты должны провести ночь в его мрачном особняке.
The Frightened City
Sgt. Bob Ogle
A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery).
Return of a Stranger
Fred
An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.
A Touch of Larceny
Hall Porter (uncredited)
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
The Birthday Present
Careers Officer
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
Second Fiddle
Potter
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
The Passionate Stranger
Mr. Poldy
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Suspended Alibi
Henry Beamster
A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.
The Man in the Road
Medwood Inspector Hayman
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
Доктор на море
Sandyman
Саймон Спэрроу устраивается работать судовым врачом. Он предполагает, что его ждет спокойное плавание. Однако на борт корабля поднимаются дочь судовладельца и певичка-француженка. Говорят, что женщина на корабле - к несчастью, а тут их сразу две...
Lease of Life
Jeweller
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
The Rainbow Jacket
Lukey
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Conflict of Wings
Joe Bates
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Deadly Nightshade
Thomas Pritchard
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Cosh Boy
Mr. Easter (uncredited)
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
Escape Route
Inspector Reid
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Brandy for the Parson
Customs Inspector
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
Hunted
Mr. Sykes
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Home at Seven
Solicitor Petheridge
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
The Blue Lamp
Alf Lewis
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Пропуск в Пимлико
Garland
Классическая британская комедия студии "Илинг". Обнаружив старый договор, юридически относящийся к давно несуществующему герцогству Бургундия, жители одного района Лондона объявляют независимость и формируют правительство. Теперь, чтобы попасть туда, нужно иметь "Пропуск в Пимлико".
Don't Ever Leave Me
Max Marshall
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
It's Not Cricket
Yokel
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Vote for Huggett
Mr. Bentley
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Fly Away Peter
Billy Hapgood
Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
To the Public Danger
Labourer
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
My Brother's Keeper
Camp Caretaker
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Penny and the Pownall Case
Policeman
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
Escape
Brownie
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Look Before You Love
Miller
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
It Always Rains on Sunday
Detective Sergeant Leech
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
The October Man
Det. Insp. Godby
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
The Master of Bankdam
Ben Pickersgill
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Isaac Turk
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Dr. Pepper
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
Johnny Frenchman
Zacky Penrose
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
The Return of the Vikings
Sgt. Fred Johnson
British war documentary
Fiddlers Three
Auctioneer
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
Champagne Charlie
Learoyd
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
San Demetrio London
Boatswain W.E. Fletcher - M.V. San Demetrio
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
The Bells Go Down
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Nine Men
Banger Hill
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
... в котором мы служим
Edgecombe
История команды маленького корабля, знавшей о своей обреченности и все же честно выполнившей долг.
49-я параллель
David
1941 год. Восточное побережье Канады. Нацистская лодка «U-37» торпедирует канадский танкер и конвоирующую подлодку. Канадские ВВС и торпедные катера начинают преследование врага. Немецкий капитан решает скрыться от погони в северных широтах бухты Хадсона. Это ему не удается, бомбардировщики береговой охраны прямым попаданием отправляют лодку на дно.
East of Piccadilly
Ginger Harris
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
The Four Just Men
Pickpocket (uncredited)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Таверна Ямайка
Davis, Sir Humphrey's landlord
Мэри, осиротев, приезжает на побережье Корнуолла к своим дяде и тётке, содержащим таверну «Ямайку». Вскоре Мэри понимает, что таверна является базой для банды, грабящей суда, разбившиеся о скалистый берег. Жизни сироты угрожает опасность, однако среди головорезов есть человек, готовый помочь девушке.
They Drive by Night
Bartender (Uncredited)
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Oh, Mr. Porter!
Ledbetter
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
Feather Your Nest
Mr. Green (The Recording Engineer)
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Farewell Again
Minor Role
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.
Jack of All Trades
Jimmy (Employment Clerk)
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Everything Is Thunder
Policeman Denker
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Where There's a Will
Joe, Detective Taking Fingerprints
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Crown v. Stevens
Arthur Stevens
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance
The Guv'nor
Gendarme
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
39 ступеней
The Milkman (uncredited)
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…
Человек, который слишком много знал
Policeman with Rifle (uncredited)
Боб и Джилл Лоуренс проводят отпуск в Швейцарских Альпах вместе со своей дочерью Бетти. На глазах у супружеской пары погибает их новый знакомый — француз Луи Бернар. Перед смертью он успевает прошептать Бобу несколько слов о готовящемся шпионском заговоре. Для того чтобы Боб молчал, злоумышленники похищают и держат в заложниках его дочь. Супруги должны спасти своего ребенка и выполнить гражданский долг — не допустить покушения на известного дипломата.
Red Ensign
Mr. McWilliams
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.