Leslie Perrins
Рождение : 1901-10-07, Moseley, England, UK
Смерть : 1962-12-13
История
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Leslie Perrins (October 7, 1901 – December 13, 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. In his long career, he appeared in well over 60 films. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham, England and died in Esher, England.
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Newgate Prison Governor
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Chairman of Tribunal
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Poynter
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Dr. Derek Morrison
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Charlie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Count Paiva
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Mr. Webster
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Chigwell
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Robert Sedley
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
Schaffer
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Tony Garrett
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
Deverell
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Count Mattoni
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
Standish
A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.
Harper
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Sir Richard Swingleton
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
Briggs
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
Jeffrey Legge (Maj. Jeffrey Floyd)
Банк Англии нанимает мистера Ридера для для расследования деятельности банды фальшивомонетчиков.
Maj. Carson
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Owen
When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
Major Grayson
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
J 14
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Strange
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!
Anthony Wild
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
Thomas Seymour
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Brady, The Critic
'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
Sir Charles Hawksley / Mr. Craven
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Maurice Windermere
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
John Douglas
Холмс, ушедший на пенсию в Сассекс, втягивается в последний случай, когда главный враг Мориарти договаривается с американской бандой об убийстве Джона Дугласа, деревенского джентльмена с загадочным прошлым. Методы Холмса сбивают с толку Ватсона и Лестрейда, но его результаты удивляют их. В длинном воспоминании жена жертвы рассказывает историю зловещей долины Вермисса.
Captain Rodolphe
A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
Alec Larkin
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
Gerald Sparkes
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Bryan Martin
Действие романа разворачивается в Лондоне и его пригородах. В центре сюжета лежит расследование убийства богатого и знатного семейного тирана — лорда Эджвера, которого подспудно (прямо в романе это не констатируется, хотя Гастингс упоминает собрание сочинений маркиза де Сада, увиденное в его библиотеке) уличают в склонности к садизму. Убийство происходит в собственной библиотеке лорда Эджвера в его доме. При этом обстоятельства убийства, в отличие от большинства других романов А. Кристи, не представляют собой ничего интересного. Интрига заключается в том, что убийство сопровождалось костюмированным розыгрышем, и в течение всего романа следствие пытается понять, кто стоял за этим розыгрышем и имеет ли он вообще отношение к убийству.
Frank Ryan
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Ranger
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
John Freeman
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Honorable James Mallory
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
Duke of Bristol
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Count Zera
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Inspector Darrow
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Louis Landor
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.
Clive Wilson
British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
Henry Lascarne
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Ronald Overton
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
Cleaver
A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
Ronald Adair
Карточный шуллер находится под угрозой вступления в преступное предприятие, которое, по мнению Холмса, контролируется профессором Мориарти.
Fairbairn
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
Fairbairn
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.