David Horne

AKA: David Edgar Alderson Horne
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1898-07-13

Balcombe, Sussex, England

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {69}

Mr. Field

1945-07-02 5.1

They Were Sisters

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelti ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Higgins

1942-09-14 6.7

The First of the Few

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - desig ...
Genre :War, Drama

Hotel Manager

1936-06-01 6

Seven Sinners

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Dr Stanton

1947-05-19 5.7

The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Durland

1936-05-06 5.9

It's Love Again

Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious En ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Squire Hollis

1935-04-14 6

The Village Squire

Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hines (segment "Wedding Gift' story)

1954-01-01 0

Tale of Three Women

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard" ...
Genre :Crime

Mr. Justice Langton

1943-12-07 7

San Demetrio London

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War

Dr. Duboste

1945-04-17 5

The Man from Morocco

With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detain ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

John Trasmere

1961-02-01 6.5

Clue of the New Pin

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside ...
Genre :Crime

1937-12-01 5.8

The Green Cockatoo

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Registrar

1949-02-01 6

Once Upon a Dream

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ign ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Admiral Southbound

1961-06-01 6.2

Dentist on the Job

Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that th ...
Genre :Comedy

Bank Manager (uncredited)

1948-09-24 6.9

The Winslow Boy

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial. ...
Genre :Drama

English Abbot

1936-01-04 5.2

The Cardinal

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him ...
Genre :History, Drama

Major Forrester

1934-03-11 0

Badger’s Green

A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry ...
Genre :Comedy

Thurlow

1954-11-16 6.5

Beau Brummell

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's un ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Judge

1965-10-05 6.7

The Big Job

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Foreign Office

1957-06-13 6.356

The Prince and the Showgirl

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Queen's Counsel

1961-05-23 7.1

Goodbye Again

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another cas ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sir Charles Lysle

1935-01-01 7.3

Gentlemen's Agreement

A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out. ...
Genre :Drama

Edward Havelock

1940-10-12 6.1

The Door with Seven Locks

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 mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically elimi ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Mr. Steel

1939-11-10 0

Blind Folly

A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang. ...
Genre :Comedy

James - His Butler

1958-10-28 6.452

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derri ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Mr. Deane (uncredited)

1937-01-09 4

The Mill on the Floss

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin. ...
Genre :Drama

Beavis

1940-01-07 6.1

21 Days

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Solicitor

1942-06-29 6

They Flew Alone

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim ...
Genre :Drama

Morrison

1940-03-09 6.2

Return to Yesterday

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

2nd Captain

1936-11-01 5.333

The House of the Spaniard

A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up… ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Judge

1935-01-01 5.4

Hyde Park Corner

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

John Carlisle

1937-01-05 5

Farewell Again

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robe ...
Genre :Drama

Frederick Fairlie

1940-03-01 6

Crimes at the Dark House

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 Glyde's estate in England ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror

Sir Henry Wade

1944-11-13 5.9

Don't Take It to Heart

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Duke George William

1948-10-04 6.425

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, ...
Genre :Romance, History, Drama

Dr. Kendall

1945-10-18 6.524

The Seventh Veil

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Commissioner

1941-05-17 7.25

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard ...
Genre :Crime

Sir John Brockley

1945-12-06 6.7

The Rake's Progress

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. Hi ...
Genre :Drama

Minister

1953-08-07 4.536

Spaceways

A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Mr. Wilkins

1940-01-22 6.4

The Stars Look Down

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and r ...
Genre :Drama

Colonel Mayhew

1936-11-02 0

Debt of Honour

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa. ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle William

1959-08-20 6.6

The Devil's Disciple

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. D ...
Genre :War, Comedy, History

Lord Mountsbury

1946-07-15 5.5

Gaiety George

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Evans, Foreign Editor

1942-06-08 5.6

The Day Will Dawn

When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his ...
Genre :Drama, War

General

1953-10-18 7.2

The Intruder

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact for ...
Genre :Crime, War

Antony Harcombe, Q.C.

1956-08-01 5.7

The Last Man to Hang

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Duke Frederick

1953-05-08 7.115

Martin Luther

A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Martin Worth

1945-11-15 6.3

The Wicked Lady

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, History

Camperdene

1946-06-03 6

Caravan

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Orian ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, Drama

Duke of Windemere

1968-12-01 5.8

Diamonds for Breakfast

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Dr. Golfrey Sr.

1963-01-03 5.8

Nurse on Wheels

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rath ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Judge

1953-03-17 5.417

Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

War Office Major

1945-07-20 7.1

I Live in Grosvenor Square

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty Bri ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Nero (uncredited)

1931-12-01 4.2

The Conquest of the Air

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s. ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Czech Official (uncredited)

1940-08-31 7.3

Night Train to Munich

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the se ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Edward Beckett

1948-11-10 5.5

It's Hard to be Good

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir Anthony

1946-12-23 6

Spring Song

The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

1946-11-25 5.3

The Magic Bow

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French wom ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

Admiral

1943-12-13 5.2

Yellow Canary

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Herbert Fenwright

1958-03-05 5.8

The Safecracker

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, War

Mr. Hessian (voice) (uncredited)

1948-01-20 6

Easy Money

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

The Prosecutor

1968-11-27 6.2

A Flea in Her Ear

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act. ...
Genre :Comedy

Magistrate

1951-10-08 5.1

Appointment with Venus

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. ...
Genre :Romance

Mayor

1942-09-21 5.7

The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Rev. Peeters

1956-09-15 7.2

Lust for Life

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, The ...
Genre :Drama, History

Lord John Bower

1965-06-11 5.3

The Man in Room 17

The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sir Leicester Dedlock

1959-10-16 0

Bleak House

Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October ...
Genre :Drama

Herr Mossbach

1955-09-25 0

Lilli Palmer Theatre

A half-hour anthology series. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Louis XVIII

1964-09-30 4.5

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. ...
Genre :Drama

Lord de Guest

1960-08-19 0

The Small House at Allington

Dramatisation of Trollope's fifth novel set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. ...
Genre :