Colin Tapley
Рождение : 1907-05-07, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Смерть : 1995-12-01
История
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Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire.
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Haynes
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
Dr. Lloyd
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.
Palmer (uncredited)
Через шесть тысяч миль азарта, через целый мир приключений проходит потрясающая история настоящих людей, называемых Бродягами.
Inspector
An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.
Colonel Charles Mercer
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Henry Ryland
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
Lord Valchrist
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.
Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E.
В мае 1943 года эскадрилья бомбардировщиков "Ланкастер" разрушила две дамбы в Рурской долине в Германии, используя оригинальное оружие - "прыгающую бомбу". Этот фильм рассказывает о создании и применении этого оружия.
Arnold Winslow
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
Dr. Crabtree
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
Major Fergusson
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Mannering
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
Inspector Maxwell
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
Adjutant
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Inspector Davis
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
Prince
Самсон — израильский богатырь, прославившийся в войнах с филистимлянами. Однажды на него напал лев, и Самсон растерзал его голыми руками. Много раз враги израильтян, филистимляне, покушались убить его, но всегда безуспешно. Любовь к филистимлянке Далиле погубила Самсона. Узнав, что сила героя заключается в его длинных волосах, она во время сна остригла ему волосы и передала в руки филистимлян.
Язычники, выколов глаза, посадили Самсона в темницу. Согласно Ветхому Завету однажды мучители вывели Самсона на всенародное поругание в свой языческий храм. Самсон попросил отрока, водившего его за руку, подвести его к двум колоннам, на которых держалось все здание, чтобы прислониться к ним. Помолившись Богу, он уперся в столбы руками и сдвинул их с места. Здание обрушилось. Под развалинами здания погибли все филистимляне, бывшие там, а с ними и сам Самсон.
Bart Massey
1860 год. Территория Аризона. Таксон. Этот населенный пункт еще рано называть городом. Люди только начинают осваивать эту новую территорию. Молоденькая энергичная девушка Феба Титус основывает свою транспортную компанию для снабжения переселенцев всем необходимым. И вроде все у нее получается, дела идут в гору и обороты растут, да только конкурентам ее успех не по нраву. Простоватый и недалекий Ворд объединяется с хитрым Джефферсоном Картеретом и на пару они начинают свою вредительскую деятельность против Фебы. То подговорят индейцев напасть на ее обозы, то оклевещет перед армией, чтобы сорвать выгодный заказ. И так на протяжении нескольких лет. Дошло до того, что эти "друзья" украли у Фебы $15 000 и предложили ей же эти деньги в долг под залог ее же имущества. Вернуть деньги Картерет потребовал именно в тот момент, когда Феба не могла этого сделать. Как говорится, у каждого свой бизнес.
Mountie
О сотрудничестве техасского ковбоя с канадской конной полицией в поисках убийцы, сбежавшего из Канады.
Gardner
Экранизация одноименного романа Редьярда Киплинга.
Hallett
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
Jehan Le Loup
Король Франции Людовик XI находится в отчаянном положении. Он осажден в Париже бургундцами и подозревает, что при его дворе есть предатель. Переодевшись, он идет в кабак, чтобы увидеть, кто принимает сообщение от врага. Находясь там, он забавляется выходками поэта Франсуа Вийона, который украл еду из королевского склада. По ходу дела Вийон, угощая друзей, хвастается, чтобы он сделал, если бы он был королем. Во время затеянной драки от руки Вийона погибает главный констебль Д’Эссини, прежде чем он арестован как предатель. И хотя Людовик раздосадован потерей ниточки, ведущей к главному изменнику, он в шутку назначает Вийона новым констеблем, хотя планирует его казнить через неделю…
Captain Robert Rogers
White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's daughter.
Donaldson (uncredited)
Фильм начинается со сцены суда, где судят человека, за то, что он погубил души 19 человек. Только один присутствующий в зале человек знает всю правду о подсудимом — это полицейский агент английского правительства, и когда ему выносят смертельный приговор, он встает и просит суд его выслушать. Он рассказывает реальную историю осужденного, и фильм разворачивается в прошлое…
Chester Greene
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
Joe
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.
Dr. Brooks
Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
Roger's Friend (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Dixon
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
Tom Brock
Самодовольный и нелепый хозяин доверчиво пускает в дом некую подозрительную особу, которую якобы преследуют злоумышленники. Слуга догадывается, что дело здесь нечисто, и прекрасная барышня Филд — обычная мошенница. Как водится, Дживса чутье не обманывает...Фильм, надо полагать, имел успех, поскольку в 1937 г. вышел еще один фильм с А.Тричером в роли Дживса, "Шагай веселее, Дживс!".
Larry
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take an ocean trip to the US, taking Sophie with her. She also takes along a $200,000 diamond, which she locks up in the ship's safe. Of course, the diamond is soon stolen from the safe. A reporter also happens to be aboard the ship, and he has had his suspicions about who Sophie really is. Sophie has to find the real thief and recover the jewel before the ship docks in New York, because an investigation could reveal her true identity.
Doctor Vernon
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Miller
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Studio Manager
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Sir Philip Burleigh
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
Lieutenant Prescott
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
Paul Hassel as a young lieutenant
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
William Dobbin
Бекки и Амелика - подруги еще со школы, первая - из небогатой семьи, вторая - из довольно состоятельной. Для Бекки такая дружба - шанс выбиться в люди, но как бы все ее старания не закончились плохо...
Barrett
Северо-Западная Индия. Алан МакГрегор — молодой лейтенант 41-го уланского полка, опытный военный пограничник, но, прежде всего, он человек, а потом солдат и всегда говорит то, что думает, может и не выполнить приказ и от этого вступает в конфликт с начальством.
Полная противоположность — его командир, полковник Стоун, настоящий служака, которому предстоит отставка, но перед этим он узнает, что его сын лейтенант Дональд прибывает в полк и будет служить вместе со своим другом лейтенантом Форсайтом. Им всем предстоит предотвратить восстание индусов и блокировать попытки местного вождя захватить 2 млн. патронов у дружественного эмира Гопала…
Dr. John Lucas
A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.