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Philip Ray
Philip Ray (born Roy Edgar Cochrane, 1 November 1898 – 11 May 1978) was a British stage, film and television actor. Occasionally credited as Phil Ray, he played numerous and varied supporting roles, particularly in films and on television. He also saw military service in both WWI and WWII. Selected filmography * '' Old Roses'' (1935) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Blue Smoke'' (1935) - Jan * ''Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor'' (1935) - Jim Cameron * ''Twelve Good Men'' (1936) - Higgs * '' Find the Lady'' (1936) - (uncredited) * '' Not So Dusty'' (1936) - Dan Stevens * ''Head Office'' (1936) - Gerrard * '' Dark Journey'' (1937) - Faber * '' The Perfect Crime'' (1937) - Newbold * '' Farewell Again'' (1937) - Moore * '' The Man Who Made Diamonds'' (1937) - Tompkins * '' Second Best Bed'' (1938) - Stanley Hurley * '' Mr. Reeder in Room 13'' (1938) - Fenner * '' Double or Quits'' (1938) - Hepworth * '' It's in the Air'' (1938) - Airman with Shoe (uncredited) * '' The Nurse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interpol Calling
''Interpol Calling'' was a 1959 Rank Organisation and Jack Wrather Productions British television crime drama series for ITC Entertainment. The programme, which ran for one series of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes, followed the adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery. Series outline Opening titles voiceover: "Crime knows no frontiers. To combat the growing menace of the international criminal, the police forces of the world have opened up their own national boundaries. At their headquarters in Paris, scientifically equipped to match the speed of the jet age, sixty-three nations have linked together to form the International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL!" Main cast * Charles Korvin as Inspector Paul Duval * Edwin Richfield as Inspector Jean Mornay Recurring characters; * Roland Bartrop as Grimond, French police * George Pastell as Pagano, Italian police *Guest stars in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Office (1936 Film)
''Head Office'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Melville W. Brown and starring Owen Nares, Nancy O'Neil and Arthur Margetson. Its plot involves a secretary who is wrongly accused of stealing money from the company she works for. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American Film studio, film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Califo ....Wood p.90 Cast References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1936 films British drama films 1936 drama films Films shot at Teddington Studios Warner Bros. films Films based on British novels Films directed by Melville W. Brown British black-and-white films 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The October Man
''The October Man'' is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and the lingering effects of a brain injury he sustained in an earlier accident, as well as an intensive police investigation, make him begin to doubt whether he is innocent. Plot When a bus crashes due to faulty steering, passenger Jim Ackland (John Mills) sustains a serious brain injury and a young girl under his care is killed. Guilt-ridden, he attempts suicide twice during his recovery. He starts a new job as an industrial chemist and gets a room in a hotel. When he reluctantly accepts an invitation for a night out, he meets Jenny Carden ( Joan Greenwood), the sister of his colleague Harry ( Patrick Holt). They begin seeing each other quite regularly. Things reach the point that he confesses he wants to marry her, but he tells her that he wants to be sure he has fully recovered first. Molly Newman (Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Send For Paul Temple
''Send for Paul Temple'' is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Argyle and starring Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton and Tamara Desni. Paul Temple is called in by Scotland Yard after a major diamond theft. It was the first of four film adaptations of the BBC's Paul Temple radio serials, with John Bentley taking over the lead role in future installments. The film is an abridged version of the first ever ''Paul Temple'' radio serial, originally broadcast in April and May 1938 over eight episodes, also entitled ''Send for Paul Temple''. The radio script was by Francis Durbridge, who immediately collaborated with a co-author, John Thewes, on a novelisation, published in June 1938. ('John Thewes' is thought to be a pseudonym of Charles Hatton, who collaborated with Durbridge on four subsequent novelisations of radio scripts up until 1948). The original radio script was used again in 1940 for a remade radio production using a Canadian cast, starring Bernard Braden Bernard Chaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Door With Seven Locks (1940 Film)
''The Door with Seven Locks'' is a 1940 British horror film, created and released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930s ban on supernatural-themed and horror genre films. It was based on the 1926 novel ''The Door with Seven Locks'' by Edgar Wallace. Released in the United States by Monogram Pictures under the title ''Chamber of Horrors'', it was the second Wallace film adaptation to arrive in the United States, the first being '' The Dark Eyes of London'' (called ''The Human Monster'' in the US), starring Béla Lugosi, which had been released the year before. Plot A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A series of mysterious events causes the keys to be scattered, and when trying to unravel the circumstances, the heiress of the fortune and her companion investigators become entangled in a web of fraud, deceit, torture, and murder. It becomes obv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica Inn (film)
''Jamaica Inn'' is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It is the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel ''Rebecca'' and short story " The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820, in the real Jamaica Inn (which still exists) on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Plot The film is set in 1820 (at the start of the reign of King George IV, as mentioned by Pengallan in his first scene). Over and above its function as a hostelry, Jamaica Inn houses the clandestine rural headquarters of a gang of cut-throats and thieves, led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn. They have become wreckers. They are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanted By Scotland Yard
''Wanted by Scotland Yard'' is a 1937 or 1938 British crime film directed by Norman Lee and starring James Stephenson, Betty Lynne and Leslie Perrins. It was made at Welwyn Studios, and is sometimes known by the alternative title of ''Dangerous Fingers''. Its year of release is often described as 1939, the year of its American distribution, but it had premiered in Britain earlier. When jewel thief Fingers (James Stephenson) recognises intended victim Standish (Leslie Perrins) as the man who caused the death of his girlfriend, his motivations switch from robbery to revenge. Cast * James Stephenson as Fingers * Betty Lynne as Doris * Leslie Perrins as Standish * Nadine March as Mabel * Sally Stewart as Molly * D. A. Clarke-Smith Douglas Alexander Clarke-Smith (2 August 188812 March 1959), professionally known as D. A. Clarke-Smith or sometimes Douglas A. Clarke-Smith was a British actor. In a stage career lasting from 1913 to 1954, with interruptions to fight in bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
''The Nursemaid Who Disappeared'' is a 1939 Cinema of the United Kingdom, British, black-and-white, crime film, film director, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Ronald Shiner as Detective Smith (uncredited), Ian Fleming (actor), Ian Fleming, Arthur Margetson, Peter Coke and Edward Chapman (actor), Edward Chapman. Based on a 1938 Philip Macdonald novel, it was film producer, produced by First National Pictures, Warner Brothers - First National Productions. The 1956 American 20th Century-Fox film, ''23 Paces to Baker Street'', was based on the same novel. Plot In this thriller, a playwright overhears a gang of men plotting a kidnapping and enlists the assistance of a detective to investigate them. They soon find the ring is fronted by a bogus employment agency that sends "clients" to check out potential victims. Action ensues as they endeavor to stop them. Cast * Arthur Margetson as Det. Antony Gethryn * Peter Coke as Tom Sheldon * Lesley Brook as Avis Bellingham * Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's In The Air (1938 Film)
''It’s in the Air'' is a 1938 British comedy film written and directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Jack Hobbs. The film was released in the United States with the alternative title ''George Takes the Air'' in 1940. The film depicts Great Britain's preparations for war with Air Raid Warden training, mock air attacks dropping poison gas bombs, and the deployment of anti-aircraft weapons in the streets. Plot George Brown (George Formby) is rejected as an Air Raid Warden, but, subsequently, his dreams of flying would soon come true. When he dons his brother-in-law's Royal Air Force uniform, he realises that his brother-in-law, who had "signed up", has left behind some very important papers in the pockets. He delivers the despatches to a nearby RAF station, whereupon George is mistaken for a despatch rider from headquarters. George soon becomes the butt of jokes from his corporal which ends up with his staying indefinitely at the RAF air base. Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Or Quits (1938 Film)
''Double or Quits'' is a 1938 British crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Frank Fox, Patricia Medina and Hal Walters. It was shot at Teddington Studios. It was made as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers.Chibnall p.294 Synopsis A reporter on a transatlantic cruise ship is accused of theft. In attempting to clear his name he discovers a more serious conspiracy. Cast * Frank Fox as Bill Brooks / Scotty Tucker * Patricia Medina as Caroline * Hal Walters as Alf * Ian Fleming as Sir Frederick Beal * Gordon McLeod as School * Jack Raine as Roland * Philip Ray as Hepworth * Charles Paton as Mr. Binks * Mae Bacon Mae Bacon (1897–1981) was a British actress. She was often credited as Mai Bacon. She was the eldest daughter of Hartley Bacon, who was living in Roundhay, Leeds at the time of The Great War. Early acting career During the early stages of W ... as Mrs. Binks References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Best Bed
''Second Best Bed'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Jane Baxter and Veronica Rose. The screenplay is by Ben Travers, based on an earlier story of his. Walls and Travers had worked together on the Aldwych farces. The screenplay concerns a newly married couple who soon run into domestic difficulties when the wife refuses to obey her husband's every order. It was an independent production made at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Murton. Main cast * Tom Walls as Victor Garnett * Jane Baxter as Patricia Lynton * Veronica Rose as Jenny Murdoch * Carl Jaffe as Georges Dubonnet * Greta Gynt as Yvonne * Edward Lexy as Murdoch * Tyrell Davis as Whittaker * Mae Bacon as Mrs Whittaker * Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Knuckle * Davy Burnaby as Lord Kingston * Martita Hunt Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Made Diamonds
''The Man Who Made Diamonds'' is a 1937 British crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Noel Madison, James Stephenson and Lesley Brook. Plot summary A professor invents a way of manufacturing diamonds. Cast * Noel Madison ... Joseph * James Stephenson ... Ben * Lesley Brook ... Helen Calthrop * Wilfrid Lawson ... Gallanie * George Galleon ... Tony * Renee Gadd ... Marianne * Philip Ray ... Tompkins * Hector Abbas ... Nichols * J. Fisher White Joseph John Fisher White (1 May 1865 – 14 January 1945) was a British stage and film actor. The eldest of four sons of Rev. John White, of Ampfield, of that family formerly of Hursley, by his wife Martha, daughter of Rev. John Fisher, he ... ... Prof. Calthrop References External links * * 1937 films 1937 crime films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Ralph Ince British black-and-white films British crime films 1930s British films {{1930s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
