Eliot Makeham

AKA: Harold Elliott Makeham, Elliot Makeham
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1882-12-22

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {94}

Governor

1952-09-27 7.023

The Crimson Pirate

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving pri ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

John Rutherford

1933-01-01 5.4

The Roof

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

The Verger

1949-10-29 0

Children of Chance

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children. ...
Genre :Drama

Schwab

1940-08-31 7.28

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

Mr Tallweather

1937-12-23 0

East of Ludgate Hill

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in je ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Pop Thompson

1949-02-28 6.9

Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronal ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

George

1953-09-25 5.5

The Fake

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Abbé De Moor

1942-08-24 0

Uncensored

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. The ...
Genre :Drama

Joe Stone

1938-03-01 0

Darts Are Trumps

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well. ...
Genre :Comedy

George Hanway

1937-09-10 0

Racing Romance

Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty ...
Genre :Comedy

James Urquhart

1951-11-06 5.8

Green Grow the Rushes

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Mills

1932-10-31 6

Rome Express

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome. ...
Genre :Thriller

Alexander Parkinson

1939-03-07 7.417

Inspector Hornleigh

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from t ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Elderly Examiner

1954-03-23 6.5

Doctor in the House

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Fallin ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Wallis

1933-06-13 5.4

I Lived with You

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds gi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Inky

1941-11-15 6.3

The Common Touch

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions ...
Genre :Drama

Moult

1947-08-13 5.4

Jassy

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately hom ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Martin

1937-02-12 8

Head Over Heels

Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get hers ...
Genre :

Pippermann

1940-05-28 7.7

Pastor Hall

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a ...
Genre :Drama

The Native Head Clerk

1938-03-04 6.7

Vessel of Wrath

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying par ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Man in Dead Letter Office ('Strange Mr Bartleby') (uncredited)

1953-01-01 0

Strange Stories

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Dumka

1944-07-31 6.2

Give Us the Moon

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the youn ...
Genre :Comedy

Minor role

1938-10-04 0

Weddings Are Wonderful

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings. ...
Genre :

Everard Hope

1944-01-01 5

Candles at Nine

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Theatre Usher

1947-03-10 6.269

The Shop at Sly Corner

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for cri ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Stephen Harbord

1936-06-30 0

Calling the Tune

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be ...
Genre :Music, Drama

George - Davies' Valet

1944-04-02 6.45

The Halfway House

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Fantasy

1940-01-01 0

Food for Thought

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a ...
Genre :Documentary

1939-03-01 0

The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Pullet

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

Pip

1935-10-01 7

The Last Journey

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fi ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Storekeeper

1935-12-13 6.5

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Rudd

1935-10-21 6

Her Last Affaire

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes im ...
Genre :Drama

Organist

1944-08-21 6.9

A Canterbury Tale

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury. ...
Genre :Mystery, War, Drama

Simmons

1939-06-01 6.2

The Four Just Men

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider them ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Mr. Walter Bigley

1948-05-18 6

Daybreak

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Man in sweet shop

1940-07-20 6

Just William

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this ...
Genre :Comedy

Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)

1938-10-29 6.4

The Citadel

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When hi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sir Philip's Gardener

1938-11-01 5.7

It's in the Air

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind so ...
Genre :Comedy

Anatole Bergen

1937-07-02 6.4

Dark Journey

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making per ...
Genre :Thriller, War, Romance, Drama

Digworthy

1937-01-01 0

Take My Tip

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con m ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Jason

1951-05-01 4.9

Scarlet Thread

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run. ...
Genre :Drama

Bertie Pollard

1933-04-07 0

The Lost Chord

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Romance

Stage Doorman

1940-06-15 5.9

A Window in London

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for ...
Genre :Thriller

Meek Man

1940-11-02 6.5

Saloon Bar

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man. ...
Genre :Thriller

Fuller

1940-12-02 6.8

Spare a Copper

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed ...
Genre :Comedy

Simpson

1940-07-22 5.833

Busman's Honeymoon

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

1936-09-28 0

Someone at the Door

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally will 'disappear', and he will be arrested for her mu ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Gimpy

1949-06-06 6

Murder at the Windmill

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Music

Davis

1942-06-01 5.5

Suspected Person

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their fo ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Henry Blossom

1936-10-06 0

Tomorrow We Live

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner ...
Genre :Drama

John Fry

1934-12-09 5.8

Lorna Doone

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Maj. Swayle

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

Fred Grover

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

Music Professor

1936-06-08 0

A Star Fell from Heaven

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has ...
Genre :Comedy

Joseph Passenter

1934-08-23 0

Unfinished Symphony

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert perfo ...
Genre :Drama, Music, History

Mayor of Croydon

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

Pawnbroker

1953-02-10 5.6

The Yellow Balloon

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Johnson

1944-02-07 6

Bell-Bottom George

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involv ...
Genre :War, Comedy

Prof. Gearing

1936-07-29 0

Born That Way

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand. ...
Genre :Drama

Hobday

1936-07-20 0

The Brown Wallet

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Harold Drake

1935-01-01 6.6

Once in a New Moon

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise betw ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Sexton

1950-10-10 6.3

Trio

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles. ...
Genre :Drama

Trufit

1940-04-26 0

Spy for a Day

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles. ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Sheriff

1937-02-25 7.5

Storm in a Teacup

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Simon

1938-09-01 8

What Men Live By

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God. ...
Genre :Fantasy

Consulate Official

1954-01-07 6.859

The Million Pound Note

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds th ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Snedrig

1951-11-30 7.4

Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior h ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

Mr. Christie

1949-02-01 6.6

Vote for Huggett

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bossi

1945-01-22 6.3

Madonna of the Seven Moons

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Ma ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Grandad Baden

1954-02-02 6.4

The Weak and the Wicked

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in ...
Genre :Drama

Vance's Songwriter (uncredited)

1944-08-25 5.6

Champagne Charlie

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Dr. Bowdler

1935-08-27 6.3

Peg of Old Drury

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces. ...
Genre :

Uncle Brummell

1956-09-04 7

Sailor Beware

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie ...
Genre :Comedy

Spy

1940-05-31 8

All Hands

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1 ...
Genre :War

Bailey

1947-06-19 5.1

Frieda

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. ...
Genre :Drama, War

John Friar

1945-07-30 5

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected. ...
Genre :Music

Professor Grayson

1938-12-02 4

Anything to Declare?

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, m ...
Genre :Crime

Mr. Helliwell

1948-08-02 6.4

So Evil My Love

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mr. Staines

1945-10-15 6.6

Perfect Strangers

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

News Editor

1948-11-22 7

No Room at the Inn

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman. ...
Genre :Drama

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

Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene

1943-12-13 5.1

Yellow Canary

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

Valet

1954-05-27 6.9

The Rainbow Jacket

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion. ...
Genre :Drama

Edwards

1953-11-30 5.1

Meet Mr. Lucifer

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Henry Jackson

1933-11-01 6

Friday the Thirteenth

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Postman

1947-03-12 6.5

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle. ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Baxter

1948-10-11 6

Love in Waiting

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Gobernador de Mallorca

1953-01-13 4.4

Decameron Nights

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust. ...
Genre :Adventure

Secretary

1941-12-12 0

Facing the Music

Betty driver vehicle ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1938-12-01 0

Everything Happens to Me

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

Town Clerk

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

1st Judge

1956-02-22 7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-11-02 0

Stryker of the Yard

Genre :Crime, Drama