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D. J. Williams (actor)
David John Williams (1868–1949) was a British actor. He also directed one film, ''The Shuttle of Life'', which starred Evelyn Brent. Williams was born in Ruthin, North Wales. He was the nephew of the Anglo-German artist Hubert von Herkomer. Williams died in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b .... Filmography References External links * 1868 births 1949 deaths People from Ruthin English male stage actors English male film actors English film directors Male actors from Warwickshire 20th-century English male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI activities Archive The BFI maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimes Of Stephen Hawke
''The Crimes of Stephen Hawke'' is a 1936 British historical melodrama film directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter as the nefarious Stephen Hawke - who masquerades as the 'Spine-Breaker'. It also features Marjorie Taylor, D. J. Williams and Eric Portman. It was made at Shepperton Studios, with sets designed by Philip Bawcombe. This is the third of Tod Slaughter's film outings, billed as a 'new-old melodrama'. In the introduction Slaughter appears in person, in a BBC studio, where he describes with relish his murderous activities in his two previous films: ''Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn'' (1935) and '' ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'''' (1936). In the film Slaughter plays a seemingly kindly money-lender who dotes on his daughter Julia. He has however a double life as the notorious 'Spine-Breaker', Victorian England's most maniacal serial killer. His nefarious activities are eventually detected by his daughter's suitor Matthew Trimble, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Look Down (film)
''The Stars Look Down'' is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same title, about injustices in a mining town in North East England. The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley. The film is a ''New York Times'' Critics' Pick and is listed in ''The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made''. Plot Coal miners, led by Robert "Bob" Fenwick, go on strike, refusing to work in a particular section of the mine due to the great danger of flooding, despite their own union supporting Neptune Colliery's owner, Richard Barras. Tensions rise as the strikers go hungry. Finally, some of them break into a butcher's shop and loot it. Bob Fenwick tries to stop it, but ends up being arrested himself. The miners give in and go back to work. Bob's son "Davey" wins a scholarship and moves away to attend school. While studying, Davey runs into an old friend, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Life (1939 Film)
''Stolen Life'' is a 1939 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Michael Redgrave, Elisabeth Bergner and Wilfrid Lawson. Production The film was made at Pinewood Studios with location filming in Cornwall, the South of France and the Dolomites in Kingdom of Italy under Fascism (1922-1943), Italy. It was adapted from a novel by Karel J. Benes and was remade in 1946 as ''A Stolen Life (1946 film), A Stolen Life''.Goble p.966 The film score was composed by William Walton. The film's sets were by the art director John Bryan (art director), John Bryan, while the costumes were designed by Joe Strassner. The film was re-released in 1942 during the Second World War. It premiered in France in 1946 and in 1951 in West Germany. Czinner and Bergner had been forced to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover in 1933 and their films were banned there. Synopsis After meeting and apparently falling in love with Martina, a young woman he meets in Switzerland, mountaineer Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Citadel (1938 Film)
''The Citadel'' is a 1938 British drama film based on the 1937 novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British at Denham Studios. It stars Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell. Plot Dr. Andrew Manson (Robert Donat) is an idealistic newly qualified Scottish doctor dedicated to treating the Welsh miners suffering from tuberculosis in the Welsh mining village of Blaenely and is an apprentice to Dr. Page (Basil Gill). Initially, he has many lofty scientific goals, but meets local resistance in his research. After his laboratory and notes are destroyed by the miners, he moves to London, taking working class patients in impoverished conditions. There, his purpose erodes when a chance encounter with a medical school friend, Dr. Frederick Lawford (Rex Harrison) leads to his quiet seduction by an unethical medical establishment, treating rich hypochondriacs. Christine (Rosalind Russell), his wife t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (1938 Film)
''The Challenge'' is a 1938 British drama film directed by Milton Rosmer and Luis Trenker and starring Robert Douglas and Luis Trenker. The film is about the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by Edward Whymper. This British film is one of two 1938 Trenker remakes of '' Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (german: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) in which Trenker acted in 1928, the other being the German '' The Mountain Calls'' (german: Der Berg ruft). Cast * Robert Douglas as Edward Whymper * Frank Birch as Rev. Charles Hudson * Geoffrey Wardwell as Lord Francis Douglas * Moran Caplat as Mr. Hadow * Lyonel Watts as F.K. Morris, Publisher * Luis Trenker as Jean Antoine Carrel * Mary Clare as Carrel's Mother * Fred Groves as Bruno Favre, Innkeeper * Joan Gardner as Felicitas Favre, Favre's Daughter * Laurence Baskcomb as The Podesta, Mayor * Ralph Truman as Signor Giordano * Reginald Jarman as Minister Sella * Tony Sympson as Luc Meynet * Cyril Smith as Cust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halifax (film)
''John Halifax'' aka ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' is a 1938 British historical drama film directed by George King and starring John Warwick, Nancy Burne and Roddy McDowall. It is based on the 1856 novel ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' by Dinah Craik. It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.295 The film's sets were designed by Philip Bawcombe. Cast * John Warwick as John Halifax * Nancy Burne as Ursula March * Ralph Michael as Phineas Fletcher * D.J. Williams as Abel Fletcher * Brian Buchel as Lord Luxmore * Billy Bray as Tully * Elsie Wagstaff as Jael * W.E. Holloway as Mr. Jessop * Hugh Bickett as Doctor Grainger * Roddy McDowall Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 4 October 1998) was a British actor, photographer and film director. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1 ... as Boy References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boys Will Be Girls (film)
''Boys Will Be Girls'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Pratt and starring Leslie Fuller, Nellie Wallace and Greta Gynt. The film was made by Fuller's own independent production company in the Rock Studios at Elstree.Wood p.89 In order to gain his inheritance, a man has to give up drinking and smoking. Cast * Leslie Fuller as Bill Jenkins * Nellie Wallace as Bertha Luff * Greta Gynt as Roberta (credited as Greta Woxholt) * Georgie Harris as Roscoe * Judy Kelly as Thelma * D.J. Williams as George Luff * Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Jenkins * Constance Godridge as Ernestine * Syd Crossley as Nolan * Syd Courtenay Syd Courtenay was a South African-born British actor and screenwriter. He was a frequent collaborator with the comedian Leslie Fuller. Courtenay first met Fuller in 1919 in Margate and they soon struck up a partnership with routines featuring thei ... as Bookum References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Fit
''Keep Fit'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Kay Walsh and Guy Middleton. Formby was at his British top box-office peak when this comedy was made. Synopsis George Formby again plays his working class underdog, gormless, gullible, indefatigable and triumphant hero. A weakling, Formby's character overcomes obstacles to beat a corrupt rival in the boxing ring. He plays a scrawny barber's assistant who, in response to the keep fit fad sweeping through Britain at the time, dreams of a better physique, and sings of it in the catchy "Biceps, Muscle and Brawn". He falls in love with a beautiful manicurist, and competes for her affections with a muscle bound thug. The manicurist is more attracted to the brute until the barber can prove that he is a crook, and defeat him in the boxing ring. Cast * George Formby as George Green * Kay Walsh as Joan Allen * Guy Middleton as Hector Kent * George Benson as Ernie Gill * Gus McNaughton as "Ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Blaze (1937 Film)
''Silver Blaze'' is a 1937 British, black-and-white crime and mystery film, based loosely on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". It was directed by Thomas Bentley, and was produced by Twickenham Film Studios Productions. It stars Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson. In the United States, the film was released in 1941 by Astor Pictures, where it was also known as ''Murder at the Baskervilles'', retitled by distributors to capitalize on the success of the Basil Rathbone Holmes film, ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. It is the last film in the 1931–1937 film series starring Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Synopsis In the 1930s, Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) takes a holiday by visiting his old friend, Sir Henry Baskerville (Lawrence Grossmith). Holmes' vacation ends when he and Watson suddenly find themselves in the middle of a double-murder mystery; they must find Professor Robert Moriarty (Lyn Harding) and Silver B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Never Too Late To Mend
''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' (alternatively just ''Never Too Late to Mend''; US release title ''Never Too Late'') is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor. In the film, a villainous squire and Justice of the Peace conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges. It is based on the 1856 novel '' It Is Never Too Late to Mend'' by Charles Reade. The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be re-released in 1942. The novel was adapted once before, as a British silent film in 1922, starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows. Plot summary Cast * Tod Slaughter as Squire John Meadows * Jack Livesey as Tom Robinson * Marjorie Taylor as Susan Merton * Ian Colin as George Fielding * Laurence Hanray as Lawyer Crawley * D.J. Williams as Farmer Merton * Roy Russell as Reverend Mr. Eden * John Singer as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Valour (1937 Film)
''For Valour'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Ralph Lynn and Veronica Rose. It was made at Shepperton Studios, with sets designed by Oscar Werndorff. Unlike previous films starring Walls and Lynn, it was based on an original screenplay rather than one of the Aldwych Farces. Both Walls and Lynn played dual roles of two Boer War veterans and their son and grandson respectively. It was the last time the two actors, who had been one of the most popular film comedy teams of the decade, appeared together on screen. Synopsis During the Boer War, Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke. Pyke recommends that he be awarded a Victoria Cross but the Private is instead sent to prison when his past crimes are discovered. Pyke therefore decides to raise Doubleday's son as his own. Many years later the younger Doubleday has grown to be a master criminal who has never been caught by the police, but whose plans for a major job are ruined by the inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
