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Peter Gawthorne
Peter Gawthorne (1 September 1884 – 17 March 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of Will Hay and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-upon supporting actors during this period. Early life and career He was born in 1884 in Queen's County (now County Laois) in Ireland, but spent most of his career in England. After two years at the ''Academy of Dramatic Art'', Gawthorne began a career on the London stage, eventually running up over twenty years experience there. His debut was in 1906, a walk-on part at His Majesty's Theatre, London. He was featured in the role of Albany Pope, receiving good notices, in the hit musical '' The Boy'' in 1917.Findon, B.W. (ed.) "''The Boy''", ''The Play Pictorial'', No. 186, Vol. XXXI, 1917, pp. 33–35 He also studied singing. He then toured Australia, South Africa and America, making his film debut in Hollywood before returning to Britain, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Laois
County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medieval kingdom. Historically, it has also been known as County Leix. Laois County Council is the local authority for the county. At the 2022 census, the population of the county was 91,657, an increase of 56% since the 2002 census. History Prehistoric The first people in Laois were bands of hunters and gatherers who passed through the county about 8,500 years ago. They hunted in the forests that covered Laois and fished in its rivers, gathering nuts and berries to supplement their diets. Next came Ireland's first farmers. These people of the Neolithic period (4000 to 2500 BC) cleared forests and planted crops. Their burial mounds remain in Clonaslee and Cuffsborough. Starting around 2500 BC, the people of the Bronze Age lived in Laois. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love On The Dole
''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally. It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford, where Greenwood was born and brought up. The novel begins around the time of the General Strike of 1926, but its main action takes place in 1931. The novel follows the Hardcastle family as they are pulled apart by mass unemployment. The 17-year-old Harry Hardcastle of Mansfield, studying in Lincoln, starts the novel working in a pawn shop, but is attracted to the glamour of working in the engineering factory Marlows Ltd. After seven years working there as an apprentice, he is laid off in the midst of the Great Depression, and is from that point on unable to find work. He becomes romanticall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lodger (1932 Film)
''The Lodger'' is a 1932 British thriller film directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, and Jack Hawkins. It is based on the 1913 novel '' The Lodger'' by Marie Belloc Lowndes, also filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 (also starring Novello); by John Brahm in 1944; by Hugo Fregonese, as ''Man in the Attic'', in 1953; and by David Ondaatje in 2009. The film is also known as ''The Phantom Fiend'' in the United States, where it was released in truncated form in 1935. In the 2001 film ''Gosford Park'', Ivor Novello is taunted that the film "should just flop like that". The screenwriter Julian Fellowes states in an audio commentary that Novello's talkie remake failed, while the silent original had been a hit. Plot summary Cast * Ivor Novello as Michel Angeloff/"The Bosnian Murderer" * Elizabeth Allan as Daisy Bunting * A. W. Baskcomb as George Bunting * Barbara Everest as Mrs Bunting * Jack Hawkins as Joe Martin * Shayle Gardner as Detective Snell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack's The Boy
''Jack's the Boy'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Francis Lister and Peter Gawthorne. It became well known for its song "The Flies Crawled Up the Window", sung by Hulbert, which was released as a record and proved a major hit. The film was released in the U.S. as ''Night and Day''. Plot Policeman Jack (Jack Hulbert) attempts to track down a gang responsible for a smash and grab raid, thereby proving his worth to his disapproving father (Peter Gawthorne), a Scotland Yard detective. Cast * Jack Hulbert as Jack Brown * Cicely Courtneidge as Mrs Bobday * Winifred Shotter as Ivy * Francis Lister as Jules Martin * Peter Gawthorne as Mr Brown * Ben Field as Mr Bobday * Charles Farrell as Martin * O. B. Clarence as Tompkins * Hal Gordon as Man with scarf at accident * Arthur Rigby as Police Constable Reception The film was voted the fourth best British movie of 1932. ''British Pictures'' wrote, "As entertainment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Lordship (1932 Film)
''His Lordship'' is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Michael Powell. It was made as a Quota quickie. Plot Cheerful Cockney Bert Gibbs inherits a title from his father and becomes Lord Thornton Heath. However, then he meets up with movie star Ilya Myona and when his mother asks about her, Bert implies they are engaged. After some adventures with some dubious Russian types, Bert's girl Lenina eventually wins him back. Cast * Jerry Verno as Bert Gibbs aka Albert Lord Thornheath * Ben Welden as Washington Roosevelt Lincoln * Polly Ward as Leninia * Peter Gawthorne as Ferguson, the Butler * Muriel George as Mrs. Emma Gibbs * Michael Hogan as Comrade Curzon * V.C. Clinton-Baddeley as Comrade Howard Subsequent history ''His Lordship'' was declared to be "Missing, Believed Lost" by the British Film Institute, but a copy was subsequently found. It was put onto safety film and shown at the NFT A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that cannot be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Like Your Nerve
''I Like Your Nerve'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William C. McGann, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Boris Karloff has a small role.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.86 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot In Latin America, Larry O'Brien (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) sees Diane Forsythe (Loretta Young) and quickly falls in love. She, however, is engaged to marry the much older Clive Lattimer (Edmund Breon). Larry discovers that her motive is to save her stepfather, Areal Pacheco (Henry Kolker), from being shot. Pacheco, the Minister of Finance, has embezzled $200,000 from the national treasury, and an audit is scheduled soon. Lattimer is extremely wealthy and willing to make up the shortfall in exchange for Diane. To keep Larry from disrupting the arrangement, Pacheco has his butler Luigi (Boris Karloff) arrange Diane's kidnapping (to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan Carries On (film)
''Charlie Chan Carries On'' is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Warner Oland, John Garrick and Marguerite Churchill. It is the first appearance of Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Part of the long-running Charlie Chan series, it was based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Earl Derr Biggers. It is now considered a lost film;Hanke, p. 6 however, Fox simultaneously filmed a Spanish-language version which was released under the title ''Eran Trece''—''There Were Thirteen''—and this version survives. Plot Charlie Chan tries to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel room. Settings include London, Nice, France, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Cast * Warner Oland as Charlie Chan * John Garrick as Mark Kenaway * Marguerite Churchill as Pamela Potter * Warren Hymer as Max Minchin * Marjorie White as Sadie * C. Henry Gordon as John Ross * William Holden as Patrick Tait * George Brent as Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Came Back (1931 Film)
''The Man Who Came Back'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play by Jules Eckert Goodman. A Fox property for many years, it had been filmed before in the silent era in 1924 with George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill in the leads. A Spanish-language version called '' Road of Hell'' was made in the same year. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics '' Seventh Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), and '' Lucky Star'' (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927). Cast *Janet Gaynor as Angie Randolph *Charles Farrell as Stephen Randolph *Kenneth MacKenna as Captain Trevelyan *William Holden as Thomas Randolph *Mary Forbes as Mrs. Gaynes *Ullrich Haupt as Charles Reisling * William Worthington as Captain Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Three French Girls
''Those Three French Girls '' is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Fifi D'Orsay, Reginald Denny, and Cliff Edwards. The dialogue was written by P. G. Wodehouse. ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed July 23, 2015. Premise While on holiday in a small French town, an Englishman (Denny) encounters three French girls (D'Orsay, d'Avril, and Ravel) and two American men (Edwards and Brophy).Cast * as Charmaine * Reginald Denny as Larry Winthrop * |
Temple Tower
''Temple Tower'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code crime film directed by Donald Gallaher and starring Kenneth MacKenna, Marceline Day. and Peter Gawthorne. The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the 1929 novel ''Temple Tower (novel), Temple Tower'' by Herman Cyril McNeile. It is sandwiched between more celebrated portrayals of the character by Ronald Colman in two United Artists films ''Bulldog Drummond (1929 film), Bulldog Drummond'' and ''Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934 film), Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back''. Although described as lost film, lost, the film still survives, with copies held in the UCLA Film and Television Archive, UCLA Archives.https://cinema.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=temple+tower&searchCode=FTIT*&setLimit=1&recCount=50&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search Cast * Kenneth MacKenna as Bulldog Drummond * Marceline Day as Patricia Verney * Henry B. Walthall as Blackton * Cyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny Side Up (1929 Film)
''Sunny Side Up'' (stylized on-screen as ''Sunnyside Up'') is a 1929 American pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The romantic comedy/musical premiered on October 3, 1929, at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.NY Times October 4, 1929 ''Movie Review'' The film was directed by David Butler, had (now-lost) Multicolor sequences, and a running time of 121 minutes. Plot The film centres around a ''Will-they won't-they'' romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day block party where Molly Carr, from Yorkville, Manhattan, falls in love with him. Comic relief is provided by grocer Eric Swenson, above whose shop Molly and her flatmate, Bea Nichols, live.The Times, December 30, 1929, ''New Gallery Cinema "Sunny Side Up"'' Gaynor performs a charming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hysterical Night
''One Hysterical Night'' is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William James Craft and starring Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, Walter Brennan and Peter Gawthorne. Plot summary A wealthy man dresses up as Napoleon for a fancy dress ball, but is instead detained in a lunatic asylum where they suspect him of having delusions of grandeur. Cast * Reginald Denny as William 'Napoleon' Judd * Nora Lane as Nurse Josephine * E. J. Ratcliffe as Wellington * Fritz Feld as Paganini * Slim Summerville as Robin Hood * Joyzelle Joyner as Salome * Jules Cowles as William Tell * Walter Brennan as Paul Revere * Henry Otto as Doctor Hayden * Margaret Campbell as Mrs Bixby * Peter Gawthorne as Mr Bixby * Rolfe Sedan Rolfe Sedan (born Edward Sedan; January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters, etc. Ea ... as Arthur Bixby Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
