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Edward Lexy
Edward Lexy (18 February 1897, in London – 31 January 1970, in Dublin) was a British actor. He was born Edward Little. Career He made his London stage début in 1936, and his first film the following year. His film roles were a mixture of substantial supporting parts and minor bit parts. He retired in 1958.https://www.allmovie.com/artist/edward-lexy-p42271. Selected filmography * '' Action for Slander'' (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Mademoiselle Docteur'' (1937) - (uncredited) * '' Farewell Again'' (1937) - Sgt. Brough * '' Knight Without Armour'' (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Smash and Grab'' (1937) - Inspector McInerney * '' Under Secret Orders'' (1937) - Carr's Orderly * '' The Green Cockatoo'' (1937) - (uncredited) * '' South Riding'' (1938) - Mr. Holly * ''The Divorce of Lady X'' (1938) - Peters - Club Attendant (uncredited) * '' Second Best Bed'' (1938) - Murdock * '' The Drum'' (1938) - Sgt. Major Kernel (uncredited) * ''The Terror'' (1938) - Inspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotlight (Casting Services Company)
Spotlight is a casting resource in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1927, it has actors, actresses, presenters, dancers, and voice over artists in its database. It is used by thousands of production companies, broadcasters, advertisement agencies, and casting directors. It also hosts a publicContacts Listings section, which lists a variety of professionals which provide services to the entertainment industry. Spotlight has been at the forefront of film, television and theatre casting since 1927. History Spotlight was founded in 1927, when stage manager Keith Moss came up with the Spotlight Directory to connect theatre directors and casting directors with actors. His first directory featured 236 performers and 2 dogs. Rodney Millington joined Spotlight as the managing director, and thanks to his leadership, Spotlight was a casting staple by World War II. It was judged as so essential to this industry (which in itself was significant due to how it bolstered morale) that it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Journey (1938 Film)
''Night Journey'' is a 1938 British crime drama film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Geoffrey Toone, Patricia Hilliard and Alf Goddard. It was shot at Walton Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.300 The film's sets were designed by the art director R. Holmes Paul. Cast * Geoffrey Toone as Johnny Carson * Patricia Hilliard as Mary Prentice * Alf Goddard as Tiny * Edward Lexy as Milstone Mike * Ronald Ritchie as Lemmy * Zillah Bateman as Nan * Charles Farrell Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor whose height was in the 1920s and 1930s and the Mayor of Palm Springs from 1947 to 1955. Farrell was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor ... as Dave * Richard Norris as Harry * Phyllis Morris as Mrs. Prentice References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medal For The General
''Medal for the General'' (US title: ''The Gay Intruders'') is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey. The screenplay by Elizabeth Baron is based on the novel of the same title by James Ronald (published in the U.S. under the title ''Old Soldiers Never Die''). Plot The title character is General Victor Church, a proud World War I veteran who lives alone in a large house with his WW1 batman, Bates, and a few servants. Church was highly decorated in WWI, including a Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Service Order. At the onset of WW2 he goes to Whitehall to talk Major-General Lord Ottershaw (who was his adjutant in WW1) at the War Office to seek an active role in the War, after his numerous letters went unanswered. Despite their mutual respect, Ottershaw tells Church that he is too old, his experience out of date and that there was no vacancy for him. Church is subsequently ridiculed by some junior Army officers at his Club and although deflated, he decides t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Bill And Son
''Old Bill and Son'' is a 1941 British black-and-white comedy war film directed by Ian Dalrymple. Centred on the First World War cartoon figure Old Bill and his escapades in the early Phoney War of World War II and with that character's creator Bruce Bairnsfather as one of its screenwriters, it stars Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare and Ronald Shiner as Herbert 'Bert' Smith. It is executive produced by Alexander Korda for Legeran Films. Plot Old Bill, an old First World War soldier, argues with his son Young Bill about the latter not holding down a job. Soon afterwards the Second World War breaks out and Young Bill and the family lodger Sally both join up. Envious of them and despite his wife Maggie's entreaties not to, Old Bill attempts to join up but is turned down at the recruiting office and by his old commanding officer, who Old Bill had hoped would pull strings for him. He is finally successful, joining the Royal Pioneer Corps, and both he and his son are sent to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spare A Copper
''Spare a Copper'' is a 1940 British black-and-white musical comedy war film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring George Formby, Dorothy Hyson and Bernard Lee. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures. It is also known as ''Call a Cop''. The film features the songs, "I'm the Ukulele Man", " On the Beat", "I Wish I Was Back on the Farm" and "I'm Shy". Beryl Reid makes her film debut in an uncredited role, while Ronald Shiner appears similarly uncredited, in the role of the Piano Mover and Tuner. Working on the film as associate producer and writer, this production was an early assignment for director Basil Dearden: "it was relatively easy to fit the Formby films into the new demands thrown up by the war: whereas George had typically had to overcome rogues and villains in his 1930s films, these were now simply replaced by spies and saboteurs". The film title is a pun, using the colloquial term "copper" meaning a policeman, with the longer phrase "spare a copper" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convoy (1940 Film)
''Convoy'' is a 1940 British war film, produced by Ealing Studios, directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Clive Brook, John Clements and Edward Chapman. ''Convoy'' was Tennyson's last film before he was killed in an aircraft crash, while serving in the Royal Navy. Plot A Royal Navy cruiser, HMS ''Apollo,'' commanded by Captain Tom Armitage returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. Supplemented with a new first officer, Lieutenant Cranford who turns out to have caused the captain's divorce a few years earlier, they are sent to meet a convoy in the North Sea and escort it safely into British coastal waters. One stubborn freighter captain from the SS ''Seaflower'', who has a cargo hold full of Polish refugees, mainly Jews, lags the main convoy and is stopped by a U-boat. At first they bluff their way past claiming to be a neutral ship. However they are tailed by the U-boat as they try to join the convoy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spider (1940 Film)
''The Spider'' is a 1940 British, black-and-white, crime, drama, thriller directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Derrick De Marney and Diana Churchill.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033089/fullcredits#cast It was produced by Admiral Films. Synopsis A talent agent whose corrupt actions are uncovered by his business partner murders him. A young woman witnesses the murder. The talent agent attacks her, she is traumatised and loses her memory. After she is released from hospital, the talent agent resumes his chase, but a detective and his wife intervene. Cast *Derrick De Marney as Gilbert Silver *Diana Churchill as Sally Silver *Jean Gillie as Clare Marley *Cecil Parker as Lawrence Bruce * Frank Cellier as Julian Ismay *Allan Jeayes as George Hackett *Edward Lexy as Inspector Horridge *Jack Melford as Duke * Jack Lambert as Smith * Anthony Holles as Bath's Manager * Moira Lynd as Nurse References External links ''The Spider''at the British Film Institute The British Film Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Proud Valley
''The Proud Valley'' is a 1940 Ealing Studios film starring Paul Robeson. Filmed in the South Wales coalfield, the principal Welsh coal mining area, the film is about an African American seaman who joins a mining community. It includes their passion for singing as well as the dangers and precariousness of working in a mine. Plot David Goliath is an African-American sailor who deserts his ship when it arrives in Wales. He climbs onto the back of a freight train and meets Bert, who is work-shy and scoffs at David's determination to seek employment. The train arrives at a small mining town and the two men briefly attempt to busk before being scolded by Mrs Parry for making unpleasant noise outside her shop. They stop outside a building where a male choir are rehearsing and David begins singing along. The choir conductor, Dick Parry, is determined to make David a member and offers him lodgings at his house. Despite his wife, Mrs Parry, objecting to the idea, her protests are m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laugh It Off (1940 Film)
''Laugh It Off'' is a 1940 British musical comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin, Anthony Hulme and Marjorie Browne. It was written by Bridget Boland and Austin Melford and filmed at Walton Studios starting in November 1939, just after the outbreak of war. Plot At the start of World War II, concert party entertainer Tommy Towers is drafted into service. He immediately gets on the wrong side of commanding officer Sergeant Major Slaughter, but after saving the camp show with his show business expertise Tommy is granted a commission. Cast * Tommy Trinder as Tommy Towers * Jean Colin as Sally * Anthony Hulme as Somers * Marjorie Browne as Peggy * Edward Lexy as Sergeant Major Slaughter * Ida Barr as Mrs McNab * Charles Victor as Colonel * Peter Gawthorne as General * Wally Patch as Sergeant * Warren Jenkins as Pat * John Laurie as Jock * Henry Lytton, Jr. as George Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: " After a very sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traitor Spy
''Traitor Spy'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Walter Summers and starring Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni and Edward Lexy. It was shot at Welwyn Studios with sets designed by Ian White. It has also been released under the title ''The Torso Murder Mystery''. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Jacques Pendower. Premise Both Scotland Yard and the security services are on the trail of some stolen blueprints and believe there is a link with a headless body discovered in Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west .... Cast References External links * 1939 films British mystery thriller films British spy thriller films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Walter Summers Films set in London Films set in Devon F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Man In Paris
''This Man in Paris'' is a 1939 British comedy mystery film directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson and Alastair Sim. It was a sequel to the 1938 film ''This Man Is News''. It was made at Denham Studios. Premise A British journalist and his wife travel to France to investigate a counterfeiting ring involving a British aristocrat. Cast * Barry K. Barnes as Simon Drake * Valerie Hobson as Pat Drake * Alastair Sim as Lochlan Macgregor * Edward Lexy as Holly * Garry Marsh as Sergeant Bright * Max Michel as Emile Beranger * Mona Goya as Torch Bernal * Anthony Shaw as General Craysham * Cyril Chamberlain as Swindon * Charles Oliver as Gaston * Paul Sheridan as reception clerk Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Dangerous To Live
''Too Dangerous to Live'' is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. The screenplay was by Leslie Arliss, Connery Chappell and Paul Gangelin based on the novel ''Crime Unlimited'' by David Hume. Premise A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars. Cast * Sebastian Shaw as Jacques Leclerc * Anna Konstam as Lou * Reginald Tate as Collins * Greta Gynt as Marjorie * Ronald Adam as Murbridge / Wills * Edward Lexy as Inspector Cardby * Ian McLean as Saunders * Henry Caine as Selford * George Relph as Manners * Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Herbert * Torin Thatcher as Burton * William Hartnell as minor role Reception ''Kine Weekly ''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. Etymology The word Kinematograph was derived from the Greek ' Kinumai ', (to move, to be in motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
