Frederick Leister

AKA:
0.1612

1885-12-01

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {60}

Mr. Hastropp

1943-01-18 6

We'll Meet Again

A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She ho ...
Genre :Drama, Music, War

Sebastian

1952-09-27 7.029

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

Judge

1948-03-01 5.4

Escape

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl. ...
Genre :Thriller

Marsham

1939-07-28 7.4

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his lif ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dr. Franklin

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

Mr. Mowbray

1946-04-29 6.22

The Captive Heart

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the N ...
Genre :Drama, War

Judge

1961-06-28 6.2

The Naked Edge

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Dr Collingwood

1955-02-24 5.692

The End of the Affair

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Capt. Andrew Ogden

1957-12-12 6.2

Dangerous Exile

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Col. Gill

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

Rev. Alan Woodbridge

1954-09-28 0

Souls in Conflict

An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham. ...
Genre :Drama

Vice Consul

1937-01-01 3.5

O.H.M.S.

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama

O.B. Dalton

1937-03-31 5

The Show Goes On

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs. ...
Genre :Music

John Channing

1947-07-09 5.036

So Well Remembered

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Sir James Ferguson

1951-01-21 5.8

The Rossiter Case

The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his chil ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Prime Minister

1952-11-10 6

Top Secret

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Emperor FranzJosef

1934-09-03 5

Evensong

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba... ...
Genre :War, Drama, Music, Romance

Lord Melbourne

1941-03-04 6

The Prime Minister

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance, War

himself

1959-06-23 6

Left Right and Centre

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician a ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Committee Member

1955-05-16 6.9

The Dam Busters

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, History, Thriller, War

Sir John

1955-01-01 6.5

The Time of His Life

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Blood

1945-01-28 5.1

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphu ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mark Overend

1945-01-24 6

The Agitator

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector

1939-10-26 5.2

On the Night of the Fire

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Magistrate

1947-12-22 5.2

Nightbeat

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman. ...
Genre :Drama

The Vicar

1949-04-21 5.042

For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Doctor Alexander

1958-02-18 8

Rx Murder

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Joseph Sturdee

1939-01-30 5

The Outsider

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process. ...
Genre :Drama

Slim Symes

1931-02-01 0

Bracelets

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, ...
Genre :Crime

James Morison

1941-09-06 5.5

Atlantic Ferry

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Emperor

1936-02-22 5.2

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Mr. Vincent

1941-05-10 5

The Spell of Amy Nugent

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists. ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

Reform Club Member (uncredited)

1956-10-17 6.64

Around the World in 80 Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

King of Prussia

1934-11-30 0

The Iron Duke

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington ...
Genre :Drama

Herbert H. Asquith

1938-11-18 6

Sixty Glorious Years

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'. ...
Genre :History

Inspector Manning

1931-05-08 0

Down River

A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking. ...
Genre :

Charles Randolph

1943-09-20 0

Dear Octopus

Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies ...
Genre :Comedy

Ernest Draper

1944-04-03 0

The Hundred Pound Window

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Hampton

1944-12-04 5.8

One Exciting Night

A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Judge

1949-12-01 6.5

Boys in Brown

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than a ...
Genre :Crime

Edgar Demange

1931-04-18 0

Dreyfus

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institut ...
Genre :Drama, History

Sir James Hall

1932-11-01 0

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance. ...
Genre :Drama

Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")

1948-10-26 6.2

Quartet

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady." ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Simpson

1955-09-14 7

Footsteps in the Fog

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Admiral

1949-09-30 7

Landfall

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadl ...
Genre :War, Drama

Colonel Lawrence

1943-05-23 7

The Gentle Sex

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Sir Henry

1960-05-10 6.7

Cone of Silence

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Diamond Buyer

1937-06-17 5.269

King Solomon's Mines

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Dr. Elder

1955-02-10 4.6

Before I Wake

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care ...
Genre :Mystery

Mr. Villier

1943-12-15 6

The Shipbuilders

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will ...
Genre :Drama

The Director General

1949-09-07 6

Dear Mr. Prohack

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal weal ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Colonel

1942-06-15 5.1

The Next of Kin

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy ta ...
Genre :Drama, War, Thriller, Mystery

Police Commissioner

1950-01-31 5.5

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Sir Edward Carteret

1952-10-16 5.5

Circumstantial Evidence

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a th ...
Genre :Crime

Tarade

1937-11-26 5.5

Dinner at the Ritz

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Crime

Henry Errington

1947-12-03 6

Mrs. Fitzherbert

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Wainer

1949-04-25 6.2

All Over the Town

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in re ...
Genre :Comedy

Aide to King Pavel II

1960-09-29 5.8

Surprise Package

Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor. ...
Genre :Comedy

Lord Auckland

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

Sir Isaac Spendler

1959-09-13 6.7

Interpol Calling

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery. ...
Genre :Drama