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Herbert Lomas (actor)
Herbert Lomas (17 January 1887 – 12 April 1961) was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire and made his first film appearance in an early sound version of '' Hobson's Choice'' (1931). His stage roles include Ian Hay's ''The Frog'' (1936), Emlyn Williams' ''The Wind of Heaven'' (1945), J.B. Priestley's '' Summer Day's Dream'' (1949) and Wynyard Browne's ''The Holly and the Ivy'' (1950) Partial filmography * '' Hobson's Choice'' (1931) - Jim Heeler * ''Many Waters'' (1931) - Everett * '' Frail Women'' (1932) - The Solicitor * ''The Missing Rembrandt'' (1932) - Manning (uncredited) * ''The Sign of Four'' (1932) - Major Sholto * ''When London Sleeps'' (1932) - Pollard * '' The Other Mrs. Phipps'' (1932, Short) - Minor Role * '' Perfect Understanding'' (1933) - Bradley - Nick's Counsel * '' Daughters of Today'' (1933) - Lincoln * '' The Pointing Finger'' (1933) - Doctor (uncredited) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost Train (1941 Film)
''The Ghost Train'' is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley. Plot Tommy Gander (Arthur Askey), a vaudeville comedian, pulls the communication cord on a GWR express train, bringing it to a stop so he can retrieve his hat. Returning to the train, he escapes an angry conductor by ducking into a compartment occupied by attractive blonde Jackie Winthrop ( Carole Lynne), with whom Gander flirts. Another passenger, Teddy (Richard Murdoch), has his eye on Jackie as well, but her companion Richard Winthrop (Peter Murray-Hill) ejects both of them from the compartment. When the train stops at Fal Vale Junction, Cornwall, these four get off to change trains, as do Herbert (Stuart Latham) and his fiancée Edna (Betty Jardine), spinster Miss Bourne (Kathleen Harrison), and the tippling Dr. Sterling (Morland Graham). However, the stationmaster, Saul Hodgkin ( Herbert Lomas) tells them the last Truro-boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When London Sleeps
''When London Sleeps'' is a 1932 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Harold French, Francis L. Sullivan, Diana Beaumont and René Ray. It was filmed at Twickenham Studios in west London. It was based on a play by Charles Darrell. Premise A well-born gambler comes to the rescue of a travelling circus in financial difficulties. Cast * Harold French as Tommy Blythe * Francis L. Sullivan as Rodney Haines * René Ray as Mary * A. Bromley Davenport as Colonel Grahame * Alexander Field as Sam * Diana Beaumont as Hilde * Ben Field as Lamberti * Barbara Everest Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film ''The Man Without a Soul''. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 his ... as Mme Lamberti * Herbert Lomas as Pollard * James Knight as Garnett References External links 1932 films British crime films 1932 crime fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt (1936 Film)
''Rembrandt'' is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The film was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by June Head and Lajos Bíró based on a story by Carl Zuckmayer. The music score was by Geoffrey Toye and the cinematography by Georges Périnal. Plot Cast * Charles Laughton as Rembrandt van Rijn * Gertrude Lawrence as Geertje Dircx * Elsa Lanchester as Hendrickje Stoffels * Edward Chapman as Carel Fabritius * Walter Hudd as Frans Banning Cocq * Roger Livesey as Beggar Saul * John Bryning as Titus van Rijn * Sam Livesey as Auctioneer * Herbert Lomas as Gerrit van Rijn * Allan Jeayes as Dr. Tulp * John Clements as Govert Flinck * Raymond Huntley as Ludwick * Abraham Sofaer as Dr. Menasseh * Laurence Hanray as Heertsbeeke * Austin Trevor as Marquis de Grand-Coeur * Edmund Willard as Van Zeeland * Henry Hewitt as Jan Six * Marius Goring as Baron Leivens (uncred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame (1936 Film)
''Fame'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Sydney Howard, Muriel Aked and Miki Hood. It was made at Elstree Studios. It introduced two new discoveries, Miki Hood and Geraldine Hislop. It was the second film from Herbert Wilcox Productions. Cast * Sydney Howard as Oswald Bertwhistle * Muriel Aked as Mrs. Bertwhistle * Miki Hood as Joan Riley * Brian Lawrance as Douglas Cameron * Guy Middleton as Lester Cordwell * Geraldine Hislop as Geraldine * Arthur Finn as Film Director * H. F. Maltby as Mayor * Herbert Lomas as Rumbold Wakefield * Russell Thorndike as Judge * Frank Pettingell as Reuben Pendleton * Sydney Fairbrother as Train Passenger * Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Docker * Henry Victor as Actor * Frederick Piper Frederick Piper (23 September 1902 – 22 September 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen who appeared in over 80 films and many television productions in a career spanning over 40 years. Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Mask (film)
''The Black Mask'' is a 1935 British crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Wylie Watson, Aileen Marson and Ellis Irving. It was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie by Warner Bros.' British subsidiary. The film's sets were designed by the studio's resident art director Peter Proud. It is now considered a lost film. Cast * Wylie Watson as Jimmie Glass * Aileen Marson as Jean McTavish * Ellis Irving as Verrell * Wyndham Goldie as Davidson * Joyce Kennedy as Lady McTavish * Herbert Lomas as Sir John McTavish * John Turnbull as Inspector Murray * Kate Cutler Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ''ingénue'' in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic ... as Lady Mincott References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost Goes West
''The Ghost Goes West'' is a 1935 British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by René Clair, his first English-language film. The film shows an Old World ghost dealing with American materialism. Plot In 18th century Scotland, Clan Glourie's enemy (hated even more than the English) is Clan MacClaggan. Both clan leaders send their sons to fight the English, five MacClaggans and Murdoch Glourie, who would rather spend his time kissing the lasses. At the Scottish encampment, Murdoch is outnumbered by the MacClaggans and hides behind a barrel of gunpowder. An errant Scottish cannonball ends his life, but in the afterlife, he is stranded in Limbo due to his cowardice. His now-deceased father tells him he is doomed to haunt Glourie Castle until he can get a MacClaggan to admit that one Glourie can thrash fifty MacClaggans. In the 20th century, Peggy Martin, the daughter of a rich American businessman, persuades him to purc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Light
''The Phantom Light'' is a 1935 British crime film, a low-budget "quota quickie" directed by Michael Powell and starring Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer and Ian Hunter. The screenplay concerns criminals who try to scare a new chief lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in an attempt to distract him from their scheme. Plot Sam Higgins alights at the train station for the Welsh village of Tan-Y-Bwlch to take over the North Stack lighthouse, which is believed by the locals to be haunted. There, he meets Alice Bright. She asks him to take her along to the lighthouse, explaining that she belongs to a "psychic society" and wants to investigate the "legend of the phantom lighthouse". He turns her down. Sam reports to Harbour Master David Owen, who informs him that Jack Davis, Sam's predecessor, "just disappeared", as did the chief lighthouse keeper before him. Owen confirms there was a major shipwreck a year ago, caused, so he believes, by the phantom light. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Stock
''Fighting Stock'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also features Robertson Hare, Lesley Wareing and Herbert Lomas. its plot involves a Brigadier who retires to a country cottage for some quiet fishing, but it soon overtaken by madcap events. The screenplay is by Ben Travers based on his earlier stage play of the same name, and the cast included cast members from Travers's Aldwych Farces. It was filmed at Islington Studios with sets by Oscar Friedrich Werndorff. Cast * Tom Walls as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley * Ralph Lynn as Sydney Rowley * Robertson Hare as Duck * Marie Lohr as Mrs. Barbara Rivers * Herbert Lomas as Murlow * Lesley Wareing as Eileen Rivers * Veronica Rose as Diana Rivers * Hubert Harben as Mr. Rivers * Margaret Davidge as Mrs. Fenton * Peggy Simpson as Maid * Mary Jerrold as Emmie * Sybil Grove as Mrs. Peacock * Norah Howard as Ada Critical reception '' Sky Movies'' gave the film three out of fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Doone (1934 Film)
''Lorna Doone'' is a 1934 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Victoria Hopper, John Loder and Margaret Lockwood. It is based on the 1869 novel ''Lorna Doone'' by R. D. Blackmore. This was the third screen version of the novel, and the first with sound; a further cinema adaptation followed in 1951. It was shot partly on location in Somerset. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward Carrick. Cast * Victoria Hopper as Lorna Doone * John Loder as John Ridd * Margaret Lockwood as Annie Ridd * Roy Emerton as Carver Doone * Mary Clare as Mistress Sara Ridd * Edward Rigby as Reuben 'Uncle Ben' Huckaback * Roger Livesey as Tom Faggus * George Curzon as King James II * D. A. Clarke-Smith as Counsellor Doone * Laurence Hanray as Parson Bowden * Amy Veness as Betty Muxworthy * Eliot Makeham as John Fry * Wyndham Goldie as Chief Judge Jeffries * Frank Cellier as Captain Jeremy Stickles * Herbert Lomas as Sir Ensor Doone * Arthur Hambling a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Java Head (1934 Film)
''Java Head'' is a 1934 British historical drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and J. Walter Ruben. It stars Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan and Ralph Richardson. Synopsis The son of a wealthy Bristol shipping magnate marries a Chinese noblewoman, but she soon becomes aware that he is in fact in love with another woman. Cast * Anna May Wong as Princess Taou Yuen * Elizabeth Allan as Nettie Vollar * John Loder as Gerrit Ammidon * Edmund Gwenn as Jeremy Ammidon * Ralph Richardson as William Ammidon * Herbert Lomas as Barzil Dunsack * George Curzon as Edward Dunsack * Roy Emerton as Broadrick * John Marriner as John Stone * Grey Blake as Roger Brevard * Amy Brandon Thomas as Rhoda * Frances Carson as Kate Production The screenplay was written by Gordon Wellesley and Carol Reed served as an assistant director. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Joseph Hergesheimer of the same name. Its sets were designed by Edward Carrick. A previous silent version was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Toronto (1933 Film)
''The Man from Toronto'' is a 1933 British romantic comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Jessie Matthews, Ian Hunter (actor), Ian Hunter and Frederick Kerr. After an inheritance is left to them if they marry, an Englishwoman and a Canadian must meet for the first time to investigate the other - with comedic results. Matthews was considered a rising film star at the time of the production, and she quickly became one of Gainsborough Pictures' leading names. Plot Lawyer Bunston (Frederick Kerr) informs Englishwoman Leslie Farrar (Jessie Matthews), his niece by marriage, that she will inherit a quarter of a million if she marries Canadian Fergus Wimbush. The trouble is they have never met. Leslie is furious, certain that the deceased made the will to get back at her for not marrying him by pressuring her to wed his nephew. When Leslie refuses to comply with the condition, Bunston lets Mrs. Hubbard's cottage for Leslie, as she must cut down on her expenses. When the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pointing Finger (1933 Film)
''The Pointing Finger'' is a 1933 British drama film directed by George Pearson and starring John Stuart, Viola Keats and Leslie Perrins. The screenplay concerns a man who plots to murder his half-brother so he can claim his earldom and an inheritance. The film was made by Twickenham Film Studios with sets designed by the art director James A. Carter. It was distributed by RKO Pictures as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.275 Based on the novel ''The Pointing Finger'' (1907) by "Rita," it was a remake of the 1922 film The Pointing Finger (1922 film), of the same name. Cast * John Stuart as Lord Rollestone * Viola Keats as Lady Mary Stuart * Leslie Perrins Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. After training at RADA, he was on stage from 1922, and in his long career, appeared in well over 60 films. Hobbies Perrins and wife Violet w ... as Honorable James Mallory * Michael Hogan (British actor), Michael Hogan as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |