Syd Crossley

AKA:
0.5327

1885-11-17

Islington, London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

Bankes

1937-03-20 5

Pearls Bring Tears

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Butler

1926-09-01 0

The Golden Web

After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Ryan's Butler

1925-09-06 0

Keep Smiling

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, t ...
Genre :Comedy

Dawson

1929-02-15 3

The Fatal Warning

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Mystery

Sheriff

1928-07-14 0

The Cowboy Kid

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter. ...
Genre :Western

1927-02-27 6

One Hour Married

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband. ...
Genre :Comedy

Snoops - the butler

1929-03-16 0

Loud Soup

Loud Soup is a comedy short ...
Genre :Comedy

Warder Jackson

1931-12-26 0

Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jake

1938-07-03 4.5

We're Going to Be Rich

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy. ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Charles

1930-10-22 0

The Man from Chicago

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Crime

Townsman

1925-07-30 6.6

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925. ...
Genre :Comedy

Goldfish's Butler

1929-03-04 6.682

The Younger Generation

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless bus ...
Genre :Drama

Butler

1933-01-15 6.1

Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Nolan

1938-01-24 6

Boys Will Be Girls

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate ...
Genre :Comedy

Assistant

1938-10-01 0

Save a Little Sunshine

Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-w ...
Genre :

Podds

1934-06-20 5

Over the Garden Wall

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Skelly's Runner

1928-10-07 0

The Circus Kid

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Rickets

1937-07-19 0

Lucky Jade

Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the targ ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Soldier

1935-07-22 5

Me and Marlborough

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Uncle Lancelot

1938-09-23 6.7

Penny Paradise

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not re ...
Genre :Comedy

PC Smithers

1935-08-13 6.2

Honeymoon for Three

In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is fl ...
Genre :Music

Sullivan

1932-12-01 0

For the Love of Mike

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1929-12-01 0

The Hate Ship

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him. ...
Genre :Mystery

Minor Role

1937-11-11 5.2

The Squeaker

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police Constable Cronley

1939-12-01 5.833

Come on George!

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Constable

1937-03-12 0

Feather Your Nest

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Constable

1936-10-04 0

Queen of Hearts

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sentry

1930-10-27 0

The Middle Watch

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Comedy

Commissionaire

1932-09-20 0

Here's George

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Comedy

Crossley

1933-02-02 0

The King's Cup

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute) ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Butler

1933-08-18 0

Meet My Sister

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Comedy

Policeman

1936-08-23 4.8

The Man Behind the Mask

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker. ...
Genre :Drama

Waiter

1936-02-01 4.7

Cheer Up

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid. ...
Genre :Music

Waiter

1936-06-11 6

Everything Is Rhythm

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader. ...
Genre :Music

Bleak (uncredited)

1933-10-01 6.9

You Made Me Love You

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Wyke

1934-04-02 7.5

Those Were the Days

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

The Chase Butler

1926-02-27 6

Mama Behave

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity. ...
Genre :Comedy

Porky

1933-11-01 0

The Bermondsey Kid

A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend. ...
Genre :Drama

Cpl. Brown

1930-07-04 0

Suspense

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it. ...
Genre :War, Drama

1936-12-16 5

Sensation

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1937-09-01 5.4

Victoria the Great

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Valet

1928-01-01 6.5

That Certain Thing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Police Constable

1938-01-12 0

Sweet Devil

Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go befor ...
Genre :Comedy

1938-01-01 0

The Dark Stairway

“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Undetermined Role

1935-02-01 5

It's a Bet

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circ ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1938-10-21 0

His Lordship Goes to Press

An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles. ...
Genre :Comedy

Spanish customs officer

1932-09-15 0

Old Spanish Customers

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain! ...
Genre :Comedy

1932-07-21 0

The Last Coupon

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools! ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Constable

1933-05-26 0

The Umbrella

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle. ...
Genre :Comedy

Perkins

1940-02-17 0

Meet Maxwell Archer

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder. ...
Genre :Mystery

Customer

1930-03-01 0

The Musical Beauty Shop

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Stage Manager

1930-03-11 0

Just for a Song

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act. ...
Genre :Music

Jenkyns

1933-02-01 6

Letting in the Sunshine

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars. ...
Genre :Drama

Hicks

1931-08-01 0

The Flying Fool

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1932-01-30 6

Men Like These

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew. ...
Genre :History, Action, Adventure, Drama

Simeon

1932-07-27 0

High Society

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins ...
Genre :Comedy

Milkman

1932-06-27 0

The Mayor's Nest

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues. ...
Genre :Comedy

Telegraphist

1929-11-15 5

Atlantic

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a ...
Genre :Drama

Hector Ramsbottom

1932-09-01 0

Lucky Ladies

Some sisters inherit a large sum of money. ...
Genre :Comedy

Briggs’ Butler

1937-08-13 5

Old Mother Riley

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop th ...
Genre :Comedy

The Valet

1928-01-15 7

A Perfect Gentleman

Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Action

Curtis

1935-09-26 0

The Deputy Drummer

Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Shearman

1937-06-01 5.3

Cotton Queen

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1936-10-11 7

One Good Turn

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin. ...
Genre :Comedy

Butler

1927-11-13 0

The Gorilla

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Butler (Uncredited)

1933-01-15 6.1

Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Porter

1936-10-15 7

The Man in the Mirror

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Policeman

1936-02-15 7.3

Public Nuisance No. 1

Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, t ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Wilkins

1935-03-01 5.8

Dandy Dick

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive h ...
Genre :Comedy

Cockney Bouncer

1927-07-18 7

The Blood Ship

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife an ...
Genre :Drama

The Bailiff

1941-12-10 3.833

Old Mother Riley's Circus

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success. ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-06-11 0

Give Her a Ring

A telephonist falls for her employer. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Beach

1933-04-01 0

Leave It to Me

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ives

1936-12-12 0

Two's Company

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship. ...
Genre :Thriller

1938-12-01 0

Everything Happens to Me

A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election. ...
Genre :Comedy

1938-08-16 0

The Return of Carol Deane

Genre :Crime, Drama

Happy

1928-06-15 0

Into No Man's Land

A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police after shooting one of his underworld associates, he enlists in the US Army and goes to fight in France ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle Alfred

1942-08-11 6.2

Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall. ...
Genre :Comedy