Morland Graham
Рождение : 1891-08-08, Patrick, Scotland, UK
Смерть : 1949-04-08
История
Morland Graham was a British film actor, with a career on stage and screen spanning over 35 years.
He died on 8 April 1949 after taking an overdose of aspirin while suffering from ill health and "nervous depression".
The Biffer
Идёт Вторая мировая война. Однако, на небольшом островке на северо-западе Шотландии другая беда. Сюда не падают бомбы, не взрываются гранаты, не гибнут люди. Здесь закончилось виски! Жизнь утратила свою привлекательность, мужчины оделись в чёрное, даже дети почувствовали, что что-то не так. Но, однажды, у берегов острова потерпел крушение корабль с грузом виски на борту...
Donald MacDonald of Eriskay
The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
Ketley
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Clay
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Angus McFarish
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Morris
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Bates
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Danny Shields
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Harbor Master Kleber
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
C.P.O.Marsden
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Doctor
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Old Bill
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Father Landbach
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Dr. Sterling
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Teleferic Attendant
осле захвата Гитлером Чехословакии Анна Бомаш арестована. Ее отец, Аксель, располагающий ценной и нужной нацистам технической информацией, бежал в Англию. Анна заключена в концлагерь. Там она знакомится с Карлом Марсеном, с которым ей удается бежать в Англию, а в Лондоне она вступает в контакт с исполнителем мьюзик-холла Гасом Беннеттом, якобы британским агентом, в надежде, что тот свяжет ее с отцом. Но и дочь, и отец обмануты Марсеном, он оказывается агентом гестапо, и попадают в Германию. Нацисты угрожают Анне расправой, чтобы добиться согласия отца на сотрудничество. Беннет следует за ними в Германию, где и узнает, что дочь и отец должны быть на ночном поезде в Мюнхен. Он садится на тот же поезд и освобождает отца и дочь. Вся троица бежит в Швейцарию. За ними гонятся Марсен и эсэсовцы.
Gordon Tweedie
A film directed by John Hunt
Sydney, gang member
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.
Minor Role
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
Luka, a manservant
Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner. He arrives at her house claiming her late husband owed him money and he wants the debt repaid immediately. They argue and almost have a duel over the debt before they realise that they have fallen in love with each other.
Polkinhorne
'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
Victor Day
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
(uncredited)
Mozart biopic.
Major Rawlingcourt
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
Brioukow's Servant
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Treadle the tailor
Разгар революционного террора во Франции. Аристократы, осуждённые к казни на гильотине, томятся в тюрьме Ла-Форс. Правительство Робеспьера обеспокоено тем, что различными хитроумными способами их похищает из темницы и вывозит из Франции неуловимый Алый Первоцвет. Ходят слухи, что за его бесчисленными масками скрывается некий английский лорд. Гражданин Шовелен, представляющий интересы революционной Франции в Лондоне, получает от Робеспьера задание любой ценой выследить загадочного врага республики. Прибегнув к шантажу, он пытается выведать его истинное имя у светской львицы, леди Блейкни, чей муж — недалёкий придворный франт и хлыщ из окружения принца-регента.
Treadle
Разгар революционного террора во Франции. Аристократы, осуждённые к казни на гильотине, томятся в тюрьме Ла-Форс. Правительство Робеспьера обеспокоено тем, что различными хитроумными способами их похищает из темницы и вывозит из Франции неуловимый Алый Первоцвет. Ходят слухи, что за его бесчисленными масками скрывается некий английский лорд. Гражданин Шовелен, представляющий интересы революционной Франции в Лондоне, получает от Робеспьера задание любой ценой выследить загадочного врага республики. Прибегнув к шантажу, он пытается выведать его истинное имя у светской львицы, леди Блейкни, чей муж — недалёкий придворный франт и хлыщ из окружения принца-регента.
Hector, Don Juan's Cook
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.