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Lester Matthews
Arthur Lester Matthews (6 June 1900 – 5 June 1975) was an English actor. In his career, the handsome Englishman made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was erroneously credited in later years as Les Matthews. Matthews played supporting roles in films like ''The Raven'' and ''Werewolf of London'' (both 1935), but his career deteriorated into bit parts. He died on 5 June 1975, the day before his 75th birthday, in Los Angeles. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. Partial filmography * ''The Man at Six'' (1931) (also known as ''The Gables Mystery'') – Campbell Edwards * ''Creeping Shadows'' (1931) – Brian Nash * '' The Old Man'' (1931) as Keith Keller * ''Carmen'' (1931) – Zuniga * ''The Wickham Mystery'' (1932) – Charles Wickham * ''The Indiscretions of Eve'' (1932) – Ralph * '' Fires of Fate'' (1932) – Lt. Col Egerton * ''Her Night Out'' (1932) – Gerald Vickery * ''She Was Only a Village Maiden'' (1933) – Frampton * '' Called Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werewolf Of London
''Werewolf of London'' is a 1935 horror film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Henry Hull as the titular werewolf. The supporting cast includes Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, and Spring Byington. Jack Pierce, who is best known for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film ''Frankenstein'', created the film's werewolf makeup. Produced by Universal Pictures, ''Werewolf of London'' was the first feature-length werewolf film. Plot Wilfred Glendon, a wealthy and world-renowned English botanist, journeys to Tibet in search of the extremely rare plant ''Mariphasa lupina lumina'', which is rumored to be nourished by the moon. While there, he is attacked and bitten by a feral humanoid creature, but he succeeds in acquiring a specimen of ''Mariphasa''. He constructs a lamp that simulates moonlight in his London laboratory and waits for the plant to bloom. At a party, Wilfred is approached by a fellow botanist, Dr. Yogami, who claims they me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Melody-Maker
''The Melody-Maker'' is a 1933 British musical comedy, musical comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Lester Matthews, Joan Marion and Evelyn Roberts . The film was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers. Cast *Lester Matthews as Tony Borrodaile *Joan Marion as Mary *Evelyn Roberts as Reggie Bumblethorpe *Wallace Lupino as Clamart *A. Bromley Davenport as Jenks *Vera Gerald as Grandma *Joan White as Jerry *Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914), Charles Hawtrey as Torn *Toni Edgar-Bruce as Donna Lola Production ''The Melody-Maker'' was filmed at Warner Brothers First National Studios, Teddington, Middlesex by Warner Brothers First National. References External links 1933 films British musical comedy films 1932 musical comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Leslie S. Hiscott Films shot at Teddington Studios Quota quickies British black-and-white films 1933 comedy films 1930s British fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song And Dance Man (film)
''Song and Dance Man'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan, written by Maude Fulton, adapted from the play by George M. Cohan. It stars Claire Trevor, Paul Kelly, Michael Whalen, Ruth Donnelly, James Burke and Helen Troy. It was released on March 11, 1936, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast *Claire Trevor as Julia Carroll * Paul Kelly as Hap Farrell * Michael Whalen as Alan Davis *Ruth Donnelly as Patsy O'Madigan * James Burke as Lt. Mike Boyle *Helen Troy as Sally *Lester Matthews as C. B. Nelson *Ralf Harolde as Crosby *Gloria Roy as Dolores *Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Whitney * Billy Bevan as Curtis *Irene Franklin as Goldie McGuffy *Jean Porter as Girl See also *The Song and Dance Man ''The Song and Dance Man'' is a 1926 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. It is based on a play by George M. Cohan and was directed by Herbert Brenon. A copy of the film is ... (1926) References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Soldier
''Professional Soldier'' is a 1935 adventure film based on a 1931 story by Damon Runyon, "Gentlemen, the King!" It stars Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew. The film was directed by Tay Garnett, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox. A soldier of fortune is hired to kidnap a king, only to find the abductee is a young boy. Plot Colonel Michael Donovan (McLaglen), a soldier of fortune and former U.S. Marine captain, is fed up with his latest job: keeping spoiled playboy George Foster (Michael Whalen) out of trouble from women and liquor in Paris. Thus, he is eager to accept when revolutionaries Valdis (Lumsden Hare) and Ledgard (Walter Kingsford) want to hire him to kidnap King Peter II, ruler of a country somewhere in the Balkans. When a drunken Foster wakes up and interrupts their meeting, Donovan calls him his aide. Donovan and Foster reconnoiter at a masquerade ball held at the king's palace, but King Peter II does not make an appearance. Foster quickly falls in love with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boomerang (1934 Film)
''Boomerang'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Lester Matthews, Nora Swinburne, and Harvey Braban. It was made at Walton Studios.Wood p.81 Cast * Lester Matthews as David Kennedy * Nora Swinburne as Elizabeth Stafford * Harvey Braban * Wallace Geoffrey * Charles Mortimer Charles Mortimer (1885–1964) was a British actor. Son of Charles Neil Mortimer - actor. Husband of Greta Wood - actress. Filmography * ''Watch Beverly'' (1932) (film debut) * '' You Made Me Love You'' (1933) * ''Sometimes Good'' (1934) * ' ... * Millicent Wolf References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1934 films British drama films 1934 drama films Films shot at Nettlefold Studios Films directed by Arthur Maude Quota quickies British black-and-white films Films with screenplays by John Paddy Carsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Hearts (1934 Film)
''Irish Hearts'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Lester Matthews, Nancy Burne and Molly Lamont. It was made at Cricklewood Studios, as a quota quickie.Wood p.82 It was also known by the alternative title ''Norah O'Neale''. It was based on Johnson Abrahams's novel ''Night Nurse''. The film portrays a Doctor, in love with two nurses, who has to confront an epidemic. Cast * Lester Matthews as Dermot Fitzgerald * Nancy Burne as Norah O'Neale * Molly Lamont as Nurse Otway * Patric Knowles as Pip Fitzgerald * Kyrle Bellew as Matron * Torin Thatcher as Dr. Hackey * Patrick Barr as Dr. Connellan * Sara Allgood as Mrs. Gogarthy * Arthur Sinclair as Farmer * Joyce Chancellor as Sheila Marr * Kathleen Drago as Dublin Mother * Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Moriarty * Mehan Hartley as Fanninby * Tom Collins as Dr. Joyce * Pegeen Mair as Ward Nurse * Mary Warren as Allannah Kenny * Theresa McCormac as Mrs. Kenny * Mary O'Reilly as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blossom Time (1934 Film)
''Blossom Time'' is a 1934 British musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter and Carl Esmond. It was based on the opera ''Blossom Time (operetta), Blossom Time'' by Heinrich Berté. In nineteenth century Vienna, composer Franz Schubert assists a girl with whom he is secretly in love. The film had a London midnight premiere on 10 July 1934, a trade/press showing in Nottingham on 25 July, and opened to the public on 24 August at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, where it ran for seven weeks. The Vienna premiere was at the 'Apollo' on 20 November 1934. Cast * Richard Tauber as Franz Schubert * Jane Baxter as Vicki Wimpassinger * Carl Esmond as Count Rudi Von Hohenberg * Athene Seyler as Archduchess Maria Victoria * Paul Graetz as Alois Wimpassinger * Charles Carson (actor), Charles Carson as Lafont * Marguerite Allan as Baroness * Edward Chapman (actor), Edward Chapman as Johann Mayrhofer, Mayrhofer * Lester Matthews as Moritz von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song At Eventide
''Song at Eventide'' is a 1934 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Fay Compton, Lester Matthews and Nancy Burne. The screenplay concerns a top cabaret singer who is blackmailed in a scandal that threatens to ruin her and her family. Partial cast * Fay Compton - Helen d'Alaste * Lester Matthews - Lord Belsize * Nancy Burne - Patricia Belsize * Leslie Perrins - Ricardo * Tom Helmore - Michael Law * Minnie Rayner - Blondie * O. B. Clarence - Registrar * Tully Comber - Jim * Barbara Gott Barbara Gott (1872–1944) was a Scottish stage and film actress. In 1913 she made her West End debut in Stanley Houghton's ''Trust the People''. Partial filmography * ''Betta, the Gipsy'' (1918) * ''The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) - Mr ... - Anna * Charles Paton - Director References External links * 1934 films 1934 musical films Films directed by Harry Hughes British black-and-white films British musical films 1930s English-language films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borrowed Clothes
''Borrowed Clothes'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Anne Grey, Lester Matthews and Sunday Wilshin. It was made as a quota quickie for release by Columbia Pictures. Chibnall p.271 Cast * Anne Grey as Lady Mary Torrent * Lester Matthews as Sir Harry Torrent * Sunday Wilshin as Lottie Forrest * Joe Hayman as Herman Jacob * Renée Macready as Diana Arbuthnot * P.G. Clark as Donald MacDonald * Philip Strange as Clarence Ponsonby * Anthony Holles as Gilbert Pinkley * Elizabeth Inglis as Barbara * Constance Shotter Constance Ada Shotter, Lady Taylor (5 October 1911 – 1989) was a British actress who appeared in several films in the 1930s. Shotter was born in London. By 1926 she was a chorus dancer, appearing in ''The Midnight Follies a Dinner, Dancing and ... as Babette References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facing The Music (1933 Film)
''Facing the Music'' is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Stanley Lupino, Jose Collins and Nancy Burne. It is also known by the alternative title ''Jewel Song''. Production The film was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures. It was one of a series of films made by the company featuring the popular stage entertainer Stanley Lupino. The film's art direction was by David Rawnsley. Plot In order to promote his client a publicist organises a fake robbery of her jewels, but things soon begin to unravel. Cast * Stanley Lupino as Jack Foley * Nancy Burne as Nina Carson * Jose Collins as Calvini * Nancy Brown as Rivers * Doris Woodall as D'Ava * Lester Matthews as - Becker * Dennis Hoey as Capradossi * Morris Harvey as De Breen * Hal Gordon as Sim Critical reception TV Guide noted "a stiff opera-oriented production using ''Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Past (1933 Film)
''Out of the Past'' is a 1933 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Lester Matthews, Joan Marion and Jack Raine. It was made as a quota quickie at Teddington Studios.Chibnall p.274 Cast * Lester Matthews as Captain Leslie Farebrother * Joan Marion as Frances Dane * Jack Raine as Eric Cotton * Henry Mollison as Gerald Brassard * Eric Stanley as Sir John Brassard * Margaret Damer as Lady Brassard * Aubrey Dexter as David Mannering * Wilfred Shine Wilfred Shine (12 July 1864 – 14 March 1939 in Kingston-Upon-Thames, England) was a British actor, mainly on the stage, and a specialist in melodrama. He was the father of the actor Bill Shine. Shine performed as Barney in ''John Bull's Other ... as Richard Travers References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poisoned Diamond
''The Poisoned Diamond'' is a 1933 British drama film directed by W. P. Kellino and starring Lester Matthews, Anne Grey and Patric Knowles. It was made as a quota quickie for release by Columbia Pictures.Chibnall p.280 Cast * Lester Matthews as John Reader * Anne Grey as Mary Davidson * Patric Knowles as Jack Dane * Raymond Raikes * Bryan Powley * Lucius Blake * D.J. Williams * Hilda Campbell-Russell Hilda is one of several female given names derived from the name ''Hild'', formed from Old Norse , meaning 'battle'. Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. The ... as Reader's Secretary References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |