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Black Memory (1947) as Eddie Clinton
Plot Outline: Revolves around cockney Danny Cruff (Michael Atkinson), the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.
Night Beat (1947) as Nixon
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) as Ted the Barman
Plot Outline: From the best selling novel by James Hadley Chase. An heiress is kidnapped by gangsters and falls for their psychopathic leader.
Once a Jolly Swagman (1948) as RowtonKid Flanagan (1948) (TV) as Sharkey Morrison
Plot Outline: Young boxer Johnny Flanagan is determined to hit the big time.
The Front Page (1948) (TV) as Hildy Johnson
Plot Outline: Comedy drama about reporterss, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
The Small Back Room (1949) as 'Knucksie' Moran, barkeeper
Plot Outline: As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 England, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
Family Affairs (1949) (TV) as Sidney James
Plot Outline: 30 minute play about an American film director.
Man in Black (1949) (TV) as Henry Clavering/Hodson
Plot Outline:Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
Paper Orchid (1949) as Freddy Evans
Plot Outline:
A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's apartment. The despairing killer then throws himself beneath a speeding train.
Give Us This Day (1949) as Murdin
Plot Outline:
Also known as Give Us This Day, Christ in Concrete is a hard-edged work of social criticism based on author Pietro di Donato's bestselling book. Equal parts neorealism, melodrama and film noir, the film paints a hardened description of Italian-American immigrant life in New York City at the onset of the Depression. Directed by the then-blacklisted Edward Dymtryk and filmed entirely in England while the director was in self-imposed exile, Christ in Concrete was banned in the United States upon its initial release, yet was honored at festivals across Europe.
Last Holiday (1950) as Joe Clarence
Plot Outline:
Alec Guinness plays a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. he decides to take the last holiday of the film's title and begins to find out that he was a more worthwhile and interesting person than he ever allowed himself to live.
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950) as Carlo
Plot Outline:
A madcap comedy, in which a couple of bungling cabaret artists stumble upon a plan to smuggle valuable works of art out of the country. To make matters worse, one of the gang is the mad descendant of the executioner of Anne Boleyn and is determined to re-enact the event.
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) as Lackery
Plot Outline:
A mild-mannered bank worker decides to steal a delivery of gold bullion. Enlisting the help of a small businessman, they hatch a plot to disguise the gold as Eiffel Tower memorabilia.
The Magic Box (1951) as Sergeant in Storeroom
Plot Outline:
Young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Talk of a Million (1951) as John C. Moody
Plot Outline:
Irish ne'er-do-well Jack Warner poses as a royal heir to put his neighbors in their place.
Here's Television (1951) (TV) as Sid James
Plot Outline:
An irreverent review of the previous year's TV, spoofing many of the medium's favourite shows. The production had a celebratory feel and, in addition to the artists mentioned above, a host of surprise stars also appeared.
This one-off marked the TV debut of writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who were becoming established on BBC radio as the authors of the sketch comedy series Take It From Here.
The Galloping Major (1951) as Bookmaker
Plot Outline:
The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill (Radford) to purchase a valuable race horse. He manages to attain financial backing from 300 fellow racing enthusiasts--and then messes things up for all concerned by buying the wrong horse. Persevering, Major Hill enters the steed in the Grand National, whereupon the horse disappears on the eve of the big event.
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) as Lew Beeson
Plot Outline:
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Emergency Call (1952) as Danny Marks
Plot Outline:
Gripping drama about a young girl in desperate need of a transfusion of rare blood. The only possible providers are a black sailor about to embark on a trip to the Orient, a boxer in trouble for not fixing a big fight and a murderer who has been on the lam for years.
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1952) as Hank Hanlon
Plot Outline:
U.S. officer Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) hopes to spend a romantic honeymoon in London with new bride Gillian (Diana Decker). Unfortunately, Vining's former wife Candy (Diana Dors) flounces into view, claiming that their divorce is invalid. Legal advisor Frank Bettertorn (David Tomlinson) is brought in to straighten things out--only to find himself in a compromising position of his own. Based on a play by E. V. Tidmarsh.
Miss Robin Hood (1952) as Sidney
Plot Outline:
In this whimsical fantasy, a mild-mannered writer of wild adventure novels for young girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire together to steal the whiskey formula from the distillers who took it from her family many years ago. They do so, and with the recipe find themselves receiving many partnership offers from distillery's. The writer's partner then insures that he has plenty of young fans to inspire him to keep on writing.
Gift Horse (1952) as Ned Hardy, Owner Golden Bull
Plot Outline:
Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in spite of their inferior vessel.
Time Gentlemen Please! (1952) as Eric Hace
Plot Outline:
The inhabitants of a perfect English village excitedly look forward to the Prime Minister's visit, but then realise they have to do something about the local drunk first.
Father's Doing Fine (1952) as Taxi Driver
Plot Outline:
an off-center widow and her eccentric daughters must deal with a series of comic mishaps while they wait for one of the daughters to have a baby. The nervous father-to-be complicates matters.
Cosh Boy (1952) as Police Sergeant
Plot Outline:
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Welsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.
I Believe in You (1952) as Sgt. Body
Plot Outline:
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of The Blue Lamp (1950). Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
The Tall Headlines (1952) as Mr. Spencer
Plot Outline:
The son of a middle-class family is executed for murder. The family does its best to kick over all the traces, moving to a different community under an assumed name and never speaking of their son. All of these preventative measures seem futile when the dead man's younger brother begins evincing the same antisocial traits that eventually destroyed his sibling. All suspicions seem to be confirmed when the brother's wife turns up dead.
Venetian Bird (1952) as Bernardo
Plot Outline:
Private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazzo San Marco and is greeted by a smiling street photographer, Cassana (John Gregson). Mercer makes his way to a shop and finds his first contact dead from a knife stab, and the trail leads him to Adrianna (Eva Bartok). He faces danger from police chief Spaloni (George Coulouris) and also from a group of foreign patriots, led by Count Borian (Walter Rilla) and Lieutenant Longo (John Riley), who want to use him as a stool-pigeon for a planned Coup d'Etat. A hectic race across the roof tops, high above the great square, brings Mercer to grips against his unknown enemy.
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953) as Fennimore Hunt
Plot Outline:
This romantic and tuneful war drama tells the story the singer who captured the hearts of Allied soldiers during WW II. It begins when she refuses to marry the American reporter she loves. She vows not to say yes until she becomes a star.
Escape by Night (1953) as Gino Rossi
Plot Outline: An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
The Weak and the Wicked (1953) as Syd Baden
Plot Outline:
When an upper class girl is sent to prison she finds herself in the company of many kinds of women, good and bad, nice and nasty, and all with a story to tell. She hates the regime, but part-way through her year's sentence she is moved to an experimental open prison.
The Yellow Balloon (1953) as Barrow Boy
Plot Outline:
One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend's death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident. He poses as Frankie's friend and blackmails the boy into stealing from his parents to finance Len's escape. When Len decides that Frankie may know enough to connect him with the murder, he decides to silence the boy in a tense "hide and seek" chase through the ruins.
The Square Ring (1953) as Gino Rossi
Plot Outline:
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) as Hawkins
Plot Outline:
Comedy of railfans who take over their village's passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it.
The Flanagan Boy (1953) as Sharkey
Plot Outline:
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Park Plaza 605 (1953) as Supt. Williams
Plot Outline: AKA Normans Quest
Tom Conway plays a private detective who is framed for murder. Eva Bartok, the head of a smuggling, has arranged the frameup. Eva is herself "set up" by the actual killer, unreconstructed Nazi Robert Adair. At this point, Bartok belatedly sides with Conway.
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) as Mr. Hobson
Plot Outline: Stars George Cole as milquetoast bank clerk Henry Sterling. While attending a music hall show, Sterling accidentally falls under the spell of stage hypnotist Mendoza (Alan Badel). Undergoing a complete change of character, Sterling becomes an unregenerate womanizer, much to the amazement and dismay of his wife (Veronica Hurst). Anxiously, Mendoza tries to track the latter-day Lothario down and snap him out of his spell.
Orders Are Orders (1954) as Ed Waggermeyer
Plot Outline:
A movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using an Army barracks as location, and its soldiers as actors. Of course, the Commander doesn't like it a bit, and persuades the crew to use a nearby haunted house instead.
For Better, for Worse (1954) as The Foreman
Plot Outline: A great British cast was assembled for this comedy about marriage, adapted from the stage play by Arthur Watkyn. Tony Howard (Dirk Bogarde) and Anne Purves (Susan Stephen) are a couple of young lovers who decide to take the marital plunge after only a few weeks of courtship
and manage to convince Annes doubting parents (Cecil Parker and Eileen Herlie) to let them marry. Facing emotional difficulty, financial problems and stereotypical in-laws, the young newlyweds settle into a small one-room flat yet eventually rely upon a loan from Annes father to keep the wolves from the door. Somehow they survive and strive forward towards married bliss finally deciding to tough
it out without any more financial aid from Annes parents in the future.
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) as Benny
Plot Outline:
The Belles of St. Trinian's" was the first of the films based on
Ronald Searle's cartoons about the crazy schoolgirls of St. Trinian's.
Alastair Sim plays both the headmistress and her bookmaker brother.
The Crowded Day (1954) as The Watchman
Plot Outline:
A.K.A Shop Spoiled
A huge and mobile cast play the various persons connected with a department store sale during the Christmas season. Special attention is given five members of the store's sales staff, each of whose private lives comprises a story wavering twixt laughter and tears
Father Brown (1954) as Parkinson
Plot Outline:
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) as Seaman Charlie 'Badge' Badger
Plot Outline:
A.K.A Crest of the Wave
Based on a popular play by Hugh Hastings, the story concentrates on a group of British and American naval personnel, stationed on a Scottish island. The men are engaged on a top-secret project involving a revolutionary,
and highly volatile new torpedo. The British officers resent the intrusion of American scientist Bradville (Gene Kelly), while the Yank sailors can't seem to get along with their English counterparts. Tension mounts from the outset when the first test of the weapon fails,
killing several men. After a second test likewise proves disastrous,
the urgency to succeed the third time round becomes even more crucial. Can Bradville prove the efficacy of the torpedo without sparking another tragedy--and will he ever
gain the full confidence of his most formidable foe, British lieutenant Wharton
Aunt Clara(1954) as Honest Sid
Plot Outline:
A prim and pious old woman suddenly has her hands full when her devilishly free-spirited uncle dies and bequeaths her his five greyhounds, a ramshackle tavern and a popular cathouse in this British comedy that features a number of guest appearances by some of the
country's most popular comedians
The House Across the Lake (1954) as Beverly Forrest
Plot Outline:
A.K.A Heatwave
An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.
Joe MacBeth (1955) as Banky
Plot Outline:
Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new "kingpin" himself. Success is short- lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife are Joe's murder victims.
It's a Great Day (1955) as Harry Mason
Plot Outline:
Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
The Glass Cage (1955) as Tony Lewis
Plot Outline: A.K.A The Glass Tomb
Crowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.
John and Julie (1955) as Mr. Pritchett
Plot Outline:
As the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II approaches, the titular kids plot to escape their homes in the English countryside to see the event for themselves--despite their parents' protests. So they set off on a wing and a prayer, hopping trains,
appropriating stray bicycles, and doing whatever it takes to get to London on time.
A Yank in Ermine (1955) as The Manager
Plot Outline:
An American learns that he is an English earl. He travels to Great Britain to run his estate. Mayhem ensues when he falls in love with a girl there. His girl friend back home is not amused until she finds a new love of her own.
Out of the Clouds (1955) as The Gambler
Plot Outline:
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the story takes place during one unusually busy day at London's Heathrow Airport. The dramatis personae includes Gus Randall (Anthony Steel), a pilot with a chronic (and potentially fatal) gambling weakness; chief duty officer Nick Milbourne (Robert Beatty), who yearns to be a pilot himself; American engineer Bill (David Lorenz), who finds romance in the form of Jewish girl Leah (Margo Lorenz); and Captain Brent (James Robertson Justice), whose doubts about a new aircraft prove to be well-founded. The obligatory romantic triangle involves Gus, Nick and airline -hostess Penny Henson (Eunice Gayson). Out of the Clouds is an intriguing small-scale precursor
to the Airport school of multicharactered drama.
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)as Ice Berg
Plot Outline:
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.
The Deep Blue Sea (1955)as Mna
Plot Outline:
Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea stars Vivien Leigh as the troubled wife of a London attorney (Emlyn Williams). Racked with emotional problems, Leigh turns her back on her loveless marriage and sets up house with a handsome RAF officer (Kenneth More). When her lover proves to be shallow and unreliable, Leigh attempts to kill herself. She is rescued by a gambler (Eric Portman), who'd once been a doctor before being drummed out of his profession in disgrace. The kindly ex-doctor builds up Leigh's confidence in herself, allowing her to go on with her life without relying upon men to define her self-image
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