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David Horne (actor)
David Edgar Alderson Horne (14 July 1898 in Balcombe, Sussex – 15 March 1970 in Marylebone, London) was an English film and stage actor. Biography British actor and playwright David Horne began his film career in the 1930s, after a distinguished early career in the theatre. He was generally seen portraying pompous, self-satisfied characters. He never managed to rise to the "star" level in his silver screen acting career, but he was an indispensable character actor, and played many utility parts such as desk clerks, newspaper editors, police officials, lawyers and doctors. He continued his theatre work until his death in 1970. Filmography * ''Lord of the Manor'' (1933) as General Sir George Fleeter (film debut) * '' General John Regan'' (1933) as Maj. Kent * '' Badger's Green'' (1934) as Major Forrester * ''The Case for the Crown'' (1934) as James Rainsford * '' That's My Uncle'' (1935) as Col. Marlowe * ''The Village Squire'' (1935) as Squire Hollis * '' Late Extra'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Job (film)
''The Big Job'' is a 1965 British comedy film. It starred Sid James, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Jim Dale and Lance Percival. ''The Big Job'' shared its cast and production team with the ''Carry On (franchise), Carry On'' films, but the film was not officially part of the ''Carry On'' series, despite being a typical Carry On format. The film was photographed in black and white, while the ''Carry On'' films from the mid 1960s were in colour. Plot The story begins in London in 1950. A gang of robbers led by the self-proclaimed George "The Great" Brain rob a bank, stealing £50,000. They choose a hearse as a getaway vehicle and are pursued and caught by the police. However, before being caught they manage to conceal the money (which is in a briefcase) in the trunk of a hollow tree, before all three are arrested. The gang are sentenced to serve fifteen years in Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison), Wormwood Scrubs prison. Upon their release in 1965, the gang go back to the spot whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Love Again
''It's Love Again'' is a 1936 British musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Robert Young and Sonnie Hale. In the film, a chorus girl masquerades as a big game hunter to try to boost her showbiz career. The film was made at the Lime Grove Studios, with art direction by Alfred Junge. Plot Under pressure to come up with a story, gossip columnist Peter Carlton (Robert Young) invents the imaginary socialite and big game hunter "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe." This glamorous lady spends her time hunting tigers, jumping out of airplanes and driving men wild with her beauty. Carlton is somewhat taken aback when the real lady turns up in person, impersonated by aspiring actress Elaine Bradford (Jessie Matthews), in search of her big break. Cast * Jessie Matthews as Elaine Bradford/Mrs. Smythe-Smythe * Robert Young as Peter Carlton * Sonnie Hale as Freddie Rathbone * Ernest Milton as Raymond * Robb Wilton as Boys - Butler * Sara Allgood as Mrs. Hopkins * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Yesterday
''Return to Yesterday'' is a 1940 British comedy-drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Clive Brook and Anna Lee. It was based on Robert Morley's play '' Goodness, How Sad''. The film was made at Ealing Studios. Synopsis A British Hollywood star goes AWOL on his way back to Hollywood after a visit in London. The reason is an impromptu decision to leave the train on his way to the ocean liner in Southampton when it passes the seaside resort where he once worked as a struggling actor at a local theatre. Without anyone but his old landlady realising who he is, he then agrees to appear in latest production of a travelling repertory theatre company when it loses its leading man a few days before the premiere, and falls in love with the leading lady. Cast Critical reception ''Allmovie AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. , AllMovie.com and the AllMovie consumer brand are own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimes At The Dark House
''Crimes at the Dark House'' (originally titled ''The Woman in White'') is a (1940) British film directed by George King starring Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott and Hilary Eaves. It is loosely based on the 1860 novel '' The Woman in White'' by Wilkie Collins. Plot summary In this lurid melodrama Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit his estate in England. On arriving in England he schemes to marry an heiress for her money and, with the connivance of the enigmatic Count Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and get in the way of his plans to be the Lord of the Manor. Cast *Tod Slaughter as The False Percival Glyde *Sylvia Marriott as Laurie Fairlie / Anne Catherick *Hilary Eaves as Marion Fairlie *Geoffrey Wardwell as Paul Hartwright * Hay Petrie as Dr. Isidor Fosco *Margaret Yarde Margaret Yarde (2 April 1878 – 11 March 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Look Down (film)
''The Stars Look Down'' is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same title, about injustices in a mining town in North East England. The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley. The film is a ''New York Times'' Critics' Pick and is listed in ''The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made''. Plot Coal miners, led by Robert "Bob" Fenwick, go on strike, refusing to work in a particular section of the mine due to the great danger of flooding, despite their own union supporting Neptune Colliery's owner, Richard Barras. Tensions rise as the strikers go hungry. Finally, some of them break into a butcher's shop and loot it. Bob Fenwick tries to stop it, but ends up being arrested himself. The miners give in and go back to work. Bob's son "Davey" wins a scholarship and moves away to attend school. While studying, Davey runs into an old friend, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21 Days
''21 Days'' (also known as ''21 Days Together'', ''The First and the Last'' and ''Three Weeks Together'') is a 1940 British drama film based on the short 1919 play '' The First and the Last'' by John Galsworthy. It was directed by Basil Dean and stars Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Banks. The film was renamed ''21 Days Together'' for the American market. Plot Larry Darrant, the black sheep of his family, returns home to London from an unsuccessful business venture in Kenya and embarks on an affair with a married woman, Wanda. When Wanda's long-absent husband, Henry, who is Russian, shows up, he tries to extort money from the lovers, and pulls a knife on Larry when he refuses to pay. In the ensuing fight Henry is accidentally killed when he strikes his head on the fire fender. Larry places Henry's body in a quiet brick archway at Glove Lane. He then visits his brother Keith, a successful barrister hoping to soon become a judge, for advice. Keith tells Larry to leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Folly
''Blind Folly'' is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Clifford Mollison, Lilli Palmer, and Leslie Perrins. The screenplay concerns a man who inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang. It was made at Walton Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.301 Cast * Clifford Mollison as George Bunyard * Lilli Palmer as Valerie * Leslie Perrins as Deverell * William Kendall as Raine * Gus McNaughton as Professor Zozo * Elliott Mason as Aunt Mona * David Horne as Mr Steel * Gertrude Musgrove as Agnes * Roland Culver as Ford * Anthony Holles as Louis * Michael Ripper Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 – 28 June 2000) was an English character actor. He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. Along with Michael Gough ... References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Cockatoo
''The Green Cockatoo'' (a.k.a. ''Four Dark Hours'') is a 1937 British drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies from a story by Graham Greene and shot at Denham Studios. Starring John Mills, René Ray, and Robert Newton, it tells the story of an innocent young woman who arrives in London looking for work and, pursued by both criminals and police, is involved in a headlong series of fights and flights. Plot An innocent young woman arrives in London looking for work and walks into an ambush, in which gangsters knife an accomplice who has cheated them. The wounded man staggers with her to a cheap hotel, where he dies after begging her to tell his brother at The Green Cockatoo club. Going there, she is followed by police and hides in an upstairs room. It is that of Jim, the brother, but he does not identify himself to the stranger. When the police leave he escorts her out, but is followed by the gangsters. In another knife fight he gets away and takes her to a safe house. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farewell Again
''Farewell Again'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Leslie Banks, Flora Robson, Sebastian Shaw and Robert Newton. The film is a portmanteau illustrating the calls of duty on various soldiers and their families. In the United States it was released with the alternative title ''Troopship''. The film was made at Denham Studios by Alexander Korda's London Film Productions.Wood p.90 Cast * Leslie Banks as Colonel Harry Blair * Flora Robson as Lucy Blair * Sebastian Shaw as Captain Gilbert Reed * Patricia Hilliard as Ann Harrison * Robert Cochran as Carlisle * Anthony Bushell as Roddy Hammond * Rene Ray as Elsie Wainwright * Robert Newton as Jim Carter * Leonora Corbett as Lady Joan * J.H. Roberts as Doctor Pearson * Eliot Makeham as Major Swayle * Martita Hunt as Adela Swayle * Edward Lexy as Sergeant Brough * Maire O'Neill as Mrs Brough * Wally Patch as Sergeant Major Pearson * Margaret Moffatt as Mrs Billings * Gertrude Musgrove as Lily Tof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mill On The Floss (film)
''The Mill on the Floss'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Geraldine Fitzgerald and James Mason. It was based on the 1860 novel ''The Mill on the Floss'' by George Eliot. The film was made at Shepperton Studios. Although he is not credited in the film, Basil Dean, who was married to the leading lady Victoria Hopper, was heavily involved in the planning and the production of the film. Cast * Frank Lawton as Philip Wakem * Victoria Hopper as Lucy Deane * Fay Compton as Mrs Tulliver * Geraldine Fitzgerald as Maggie * Griffith Jones as Stephen Guest * Mary Clare as Mrs Moss * James Mason as Tom Tulliver * Athene Seyler as Mrs Pullet * Sam Livesey as Mr Tulliver * Amy Veness as Mrs Deane * Felix Aylmer as Mr Wakem * Eliot Makeham as Mr Pullet * William Devlin as Bob Jakin * Ivor Barnard as Mr Moss * David Horne as Mr Deane * O. B. Clarence as Mr. Gore * W.E. Holloway as D. Stelling * Arthur West Payne as Young Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68. He was adopted by the Roman emperor Claudius at the age of 13 and succeeded him on the throne. Nero was popular with the members of his Praetorian Guard and lower-class commoners in Rome and its provinces, but he was deeply resented by the Roman aristocracy. Most contemporary sources describe him as tyrannical, self-indulgent, and debauched. After being declared a public enemy by the Roman Senate, he committed suicide at age 30. Nero was born at Antium in AD 37, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus. When Nero was two years old, his father died. His mother married the emperor Claudius, who eventually adopted Nero as his heir; when Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conquest Of The Air
''Conquest of the Air'' is a 1936 documentary film or docudrama on the history of aviation up to that time. The film features historical footage, and dramatic re-creations, of the developments of commercial and military aviation; including the early stages of technology developments in design, propulsion, and air navigation aids. The film was a London Films production, commissioned by the British Air Ministry. Synopsis Cast * Frederick Culley as Roger Bacon * Laurence Olivier as Vincent Lunardi * Franklin Dyall as Jerome de Ascoli * Henry Victor as Otto Lilienthal * Hay Petrie as Tiberius Cavallo * John Turnbull as Ferdinand Von Zeppelin * Charles Lefeaux as Louis Bleriot * Bryan Powley as Sir George Cayley * Alan Wheatley as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli * John Abbott as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier Production background The film was initially commissioned by Alexander Korda prior to the advent of World War II, and the Air Ministry saw the value in promoting Britain's cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
