Augustus Frederick Burtwell (23 December 1894 – 16 November 1948) was an English actor, on stage from 1914, who featured in supporting roles in over 40 British films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Partial filmography

* '' Other People's Sins'' (1931) * '' Down Our Street'' (1932) * '' Just My Luck'' (1933) * ''

The Path of Glory ''The Path of Glory'' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Dallas Bower and starring Maurice Evans, Valerie Hobson, Felix Aylmer, Henry Daniell and Athole Stewart. Two European countries plan a war, both hoping to lose it. A " quota ...

'' (1934) * ''

Inside the Room ''Inside the Room'' is a 1935 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Austin Trevor, Dorothy Boyd and George Hayes. It was shot at Twickenham Studios in west London. A French detective, Pierre Santos, investigates a popu ...

'' (1935) * ''

Midshipman Easy ''Midshipman Easy'' is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Carol Reed and starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate and Robert Adams. The screenplay concerns a young man who runs away from home, joins the navy and goes to se ...

'' (1935) * ''

This'll Make You Whistle ''This'll Make You Whistle'' is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and William Kendall. The film was based on the stage musical of the same title which Buchanan had starred ...

'' (1936) * ''

Laburnum Grove ''Laburnum Grove'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke and Victoria Hopper. It was based on the 1933 play of the same name written by J. B. Priestley. Gwenn, Ethel Coleridge, Franc ...

'' (1936) * '' Educated Evans'' (1936) * '' Twelve Good Men'' (1936) * '' The Vulture'' (1937) * '' It's Not Cricket'' (1937) * ''

Doctor Syn The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. The first book, ''Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh'' was published in 1915. The story idea came from legendary coastal smuggling in the ...

'' (1937) * ''

Feather Your Nest ''Feather Your Nest'' is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Enid Stamp-Taylor. It contains Formby's signature tune, Leaning on a Lamp-post. Plot A worker at a gramophon ...

'' (1937) * '' French Leave'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1937) * '' The Singing Cop'' (1938) * '' I See Ice'' (1938) * ''

Penny Paradise ''Penny Paradise'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver and Jimmy O'Dea. Plot The film is set in Liverpool, where tugboat captain Joe Higgins, believing he has won £20,000 on the foot ...

'' (1938) * '' Dangerous Medicine'' (1938) * '' Everything Happens to Me'' (1938) * '' A Girl Must Live'' (1939) * '' Murder Will Out'' (1939) * '' Confidential Lady'' (1939) * '' His Brother's Keeper'' (1940) * ''

The Stars Look Down ''The Stars Look Down'' is a 1935 novel by A. J. Cronin which chronicles various injustices in an English coal mining community. A film version was released in 1940, and television adaptations include both Italian (1971) and British (1975) v ...

'' (1940) * '' This Was Paris'' (1942) * '' Partners in Crime'' (1942) * '' Much Too Shy'' (1942) * '' The Silver Fleet'' (1943) * ''

We Dive at Dawn ''We Dive at Dawn'' is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from F ...

'' (1943) * ''

The Dark Tower (1943 film) ''The Dark Tower'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by John Harlow (director), John Harlow starring Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar (actor), David Farrar and Herbert Lom. The film marked Herbert Lom's first major film role. Plot S ...

'' (1943) * ''

I'll Be Your Sweetheart ''I'll Be Your Sweetheart'' is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie. It was the first and only musical film produced by Gainsborough Studios. Commissioned b ...

'' (1945) * ''

The Rake's Progress ''The Rake's Progress'' is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings '' A Rake's Prog ...

'' (1945) * '' The Laughing Lady'' (1946) * '' Gaiety George'' (1946) * '' They Knew Mr. Knight'' (1946) * ''

Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'', or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', is the third novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his ...

'' (1947) * ''

Uncle Silas ''Uncle Silas'', subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery- thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a wo ...

'' (1947)

References

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Frederick Burtwell
at BFI Film & TV Database 1894 births 1948 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors People from Bermondsey {{England-actor-stub