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Arthur Hardy (actor)
Arthur Hardy (15 April 1870 – 1951) was a London born British actor, whose appearances include ''Atlantic'' (1929) and '' Dreyfus'' (1931). Filmography *''Atlantic'' (1929) - Maj Boldy *'' Raise the Roof'' (1930) - Croxley Bellairs *'' Dreyfus'' (1931) - Gen. Mercier *''Creeping Shadows'' (1931) - Sir Edwin Paget *'' The Great Gay Road'' (1931) - Sir Crispin *''Creeping Shadows'' (1931) *'' Other People's Sins'' (1931) *''Abdul the Damned ''Abdul the Damned'' is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoma ...'' (1935) - Ambassador *'' The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' (1936) - Crawley *'' The Vulture'' (1937) - Li Fu References External links *BFI British male film actors 1870 births 1951 deaths 20th-century British male actors British male stage actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic (1929 Film)
''Atlantic'' (1929) (also known as ''Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic'' for its mutilated home video release) is a British drama film directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll. Originally, two versions were made, the English and German-language version '' Atlantik'' were shot simultaneously. Subsequently, the production of a French version (''Atlantis'') began in spring 1930 using different footage and partially an altered storyline. The fourth version was released as a silent film. The story was taken from the West End play '' The Berg'' by Ernest Raymond. The film is available online. Plot ''Atlantic'' is a drama film based on the and set aboard a fictional ship, called the ''Atlantic''. The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway acr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreyfus (1931 Film)
''Dreyfus'' is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film '' Dreyfus''. It features George Zucco in his film debut. Cast *Cedric Hardwicke as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus * Charles Carson as Col. Picquart * George Merritt as Émile Zola *Sam Livesey as Labori *Beatrix Thomson as Lucille Dreyfus *Garry Marsh as Maj. Esterhazy *Randle Ayrton as Court-martial president *Henry Caine as Col. Hubert-Joseph Henry *Reginald Dance as President, Zola trial *George Skillan as Maj. Armand du Paty de Clam *Leonard Shepherd as Georges Clemenceau * Arthur Hardy as Gen. Auguste Mercier *Alexander Sarner as Mathieu Dreyfus *Frederick Leister as Edgar Demange *J. Fisher White as Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux * Abraham Sofaer as Dubois *J. Leslie Frith as Alphonse Bertillon *George Zucco as Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac (May 21, 1853 – September 25, 1905), kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raise The Roof (film)
''Raise the Roof'' is a 1930 British musical film directed by Walter Summers and starring Betty Balfour, Maurice Evans, and Jack Raine. It was made at Elstree Studios.Wood p.67 The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ... John Mead. Cast References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1930 films British musical films 1930 musical films 1930s English-language films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios Films directed by Walter Summers British black-and-white films 1930s British films {{UK-musical-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creeping Shadows
''Creeping Shadows'' is a 1931 British crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton, John Orton and starring Franklin Dyall, Arthur Hardy (actor), Arthur Hardy and Margot Grahame. It was made at the Welwyn Studios of British International Pictures.Wood p.71 It was released in American under the alternative title ''The Limping Man'', which was the name of the original West End theatre, West End play by William Matthew Scott on which the film is based. Plot Three victims plan to murder a retired informant. Cast * Franklin Dyall as Disher * Arthur Hardy (actor), Arthur Hardy as Sir Edwin Paget * Margot Grahame as Gloria Paget * Lester Matthews as Brian Nash * Jeanne Stuart as Olga Hoyt * Gerald Rawlinson as Paul Tegle * David Hawthorne (actor), David Hawthorne as Peter Hoyt * Charles Farrell (Irish actor), Charles Farrell as Chicago Joe * Henrietta Watson as Lady Paget * Matthew Boulton (actor), Matthew Boulton as Inspector Potter * Percy Parsons as Limping Man * Hal Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gay Road (1931 Film)
''The Great Gay Road'' is a 1931 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Stewart Rome, Frank Stanmore and Kate Cutler. It was adapted from the 1910 novel '' The Great Gay Road'' by Tom Gallon which had previously been made in a silent film '' The Great Gay Road'' in 1920. It was made by Stoll Pictures at Cricklewood Studios.Wood p.71 Location filming was done around Tunbridge Wells. Cast * Stewart Rome as Hilary Kite * Frank Stanmore as Crook Perkins * Kate Cutler as Aunt Jessie * Arthur Hardy as Sir Crispin * Pat Paterson as Nancy * Billy Milton as Rodney * Hugh E. Wright as Backus * Frederick Lloyd as Colonel Trigg * Ethel Warwick as Lizzie * Wally Patch Walter Sydney Vinnicombe (26 September 1888 – 27 October 1970) was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre. Biography Vinnicombe was born in Willesden, Middlesex and began working on the music hall stages in ... as Joe * Petra Charpentier as Laura * Alf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Other People's Sins
''Other People's Sins'' is a 1931 British crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Horace Hodges, Stewart Rome and Anne Grey. It was made at Cricklewood Studios.Wood p.72 The screenplay concerns a father who takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter. Cast * Horace Hodges as Carfax * Stewart Rome as Anthony Vernon Barrister * Anne Grey as Anne Vernon * Arthur Margetson as Bernard Barrington * Adeline Hayden Coffin as Mrs. Vernon * A. Harding Steerman as Prosecution * Clifton Boyne as Juror * Arthur Hambling as Fireman * Sam Wilkinson as Actor * Frederick Burtwell Augustus Frederick Burtwell (23 December 1894 – 16 November 1948) was an English actor, on stage from 1914, who featured in supporting roles in over 40 British films of the 1930s and 1940s. Partial filmography * '' Other People's Sins'' ... as Junior Counsel * Russell T. Carr as The Tragedian * Arthur Hardy as Judge References Bibliography *Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul The Damned (film)
''Abdul the Damned'' is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks who dethroned him for power. It is also known as ''Abdul Hamid''. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar * Nils Asther as Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha * John Stuart as Captain Talak-Bey * Adrienne Ames as Therese Alder * Esme Percy as Ali - Chief Eunuch * Walter Rilla as Hassan-Bey * Charles Carson as General Hilmi-Pasha * Patric Knowles as Omar - Hilmi's Attache * Eric Portman as Conspirator * Clifford Heatherley as Court Doctor * Henry B. Longhurst as General of the Bodyguards * Annie Esmond as Therese's Train Companion * Harold Saxon-Snell as Chief Interrogator * George Zucco as Officer of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Quest Of Ernest Bliss
''The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' is a 1936 British romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Cary Grant. It is a remake of the 1920 film '' The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss'', based on ''The Curious Quest'', a 1919 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film was issued in the United States in 1937 under the title ''The Amazing Adventure'' (and subsequently ''Romance and Riches''), but edited down to 62 minutes from the reputed original UK running time of 80 minutes. All currently circulating copies are of the US edit, but the British Film Institute has several archive prints of 77 minutes in length. The film is often believed to be in the public domain and appears on many budget VHS and DVD releases, but as director Alfred Zeisler did not die until 1985, UK copyright subsists until the end of 2055. As a non-US film still under copyright in its country of origin on 1 January 1996, it is protected in the US for 95 years after publication, so to the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vulture (1937 Film)
''The Vulture'' is a 1937 British quota quickie slapstick comedy film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Claude Hulbert, Hal Walters and Lesley Brook. The film proved very popular with audiences and the following year spawned a sequel '' The Viper'', although this was much less successful. There is no indication of the film having been shown after its original cinema run. The British Film Institute do not hold a print in the BFI National Archive, although they do have a number of production stills on file. Both ''The Vulture'' and ''The Viper'' are included on the BFI's " 75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. Plot Hopeless but eager would-be private detective Cedric Gull (Hulbert) has just obtained a diploma from a backstreet 'School of Detection' and is keen to put his new qualification to good use. Fortuitously, he happens to stumble across a crime scene at the office of a diamond merchant, who has just been robbed and assaulted and is being tended by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Film Actors
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1870 Births
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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