Hal Gordon

AKA:
0.3115

1894-04-16

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {74}

Pedro

1934-03-01 0

A Southern Maid

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. ...
Genre :Music

Bert Bickley

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

Smiler

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

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

Tim

1935-11-08 0

Captain Bill

A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals. ...
Genre :Comedy

Band Leader

1935-11-01 5.5

Play Up the Band

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Stage Manager

1932-10-27 6

Lord Camber's Ladies

In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves ...
Genre :Drama

PC

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

Sim

1933-12-23 0

Facing The Music

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble! ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Stage Manger

1934-09-22 5

My Song Goes Round the World

Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt. ...
Genre :

Dick Smith

1933-01-01 0

The Pride of the Force

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical ...
Genre :Comedy

Parker

1932-10-11 0

Josser in the Army

Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets capture ...
Genre :Comedy

Harold Voles

1932-04-11 5

Brother Alfred

Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a pr ...
Genre :Comedy

Man with scarf at accident

1932-06-11 4

Jack's the Boy

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detect ...
Genre :Comedy

Sergeant

1938-02-01 0

Dead Men Tell No Tales

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There f ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Police Constable

1932-06-01 0

Lucky Girl

Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitatio ...
Genre :Comedy

Brewery Truck Driver

1939-03-01 6.7

Trouble Brewing

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative effo ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Stableboy

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

Reporter

1937-07-31 6

Keep Fit

A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sgt. Granger

1933-12-27 6.5

Crime on the Hill

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent. ...
Genre :Crime

Parrott

1933-06-03 5

Let Me Explain, Dear

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket! ...
Genre :Comedy

Jim Truman

1934-10-29 5.3

The Outcast

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound. ...
Genre :Comedy

Stage Manager

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

Percival Brown

1934-11-26 4.167

The Great Defender

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Alf Arbuckle, Dinky Do

1940-07-12 6.1

Let George Do It!

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, War

Nobby Clark, mechanic

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

Alf

1930-09-18 0

The Windjammer

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England ...
Genre :Adventure

Harry, the stage manager

1931-08-14 0

Bill and Coo

'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Munro

1932-10-01 0

His Wife's Mother

A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl! ...
Genre :Comedy

Garage Mechanic

1933-10-01 0

Radio Parade

Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox. ...
Genre :

Sergeant

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

Sergeant

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

Alf Jenks

1934-07-09 0

A Political Party

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwi ...
Genre :Comedy

Pug Wilson

1932-11-15 4.7

Money Talks

This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus begins to gamble spectacularly with his savings. ...
Genre :Comedy

Spike, Lewis' thug

1935-07-01 2

Dance Band

Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band! ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Manuelito

1932-09-15 5

Old Spanish Customers

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

Nichols

1933-06-07 0

Hawleys of High Street

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sergeant

1935-10-01 0

Invitation to the Waltz

As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina. ...
Genre :

Conjuror

1933-12-11 2

Happy

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful. ...
Genre :

Alf

1934-07-13 0

Lost In The Legion

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion! ...
Genre :Comedy

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

County Constable

1936-11-26 6

No Exit

A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences. ...
Genre :Mystery

Gendarme

1932-11-07 8

Sleepless Nights

A journalist is sent to the South of France to interview a reclusive millionaire..He offers his hotel bedroom to the millionaires daughter to use to avoid her boyfriend,who is actually a crook, His bo ...
Genre :Romance, Music, Comedy

Sgt. Bert Simpson

1933-03-01 6

Their Night Out

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang! ...
Genre :Comedy

Rusty Walker

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

Bill

1943-05-31 7

Old Mother Riley Detective

A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are plan ...
Genre :Comedy

Natkie

1932-04-15 0

The Bad Companions

A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton. ...
Genre :Comedy

Proprietor

1931-09-14 0

Up for the Cup

A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them... ...
Genre :Comedy

Recruit

1931-02-25 0

Old Soldiers Never Die

A comedy film directed by Monty Banks. ...
Genre :Comedy

Taxi Driver(uncredited)

1932-03-16 0

A Night Like This

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn h ...
Genre :Comedy

Videlop

1931-11-05 0

Out of the Blue

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this ho ...
Genre :Music

Jack

1931-06-22 5

Poor Old Bill

A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true. ...
Genre :Comedy

Simms

1932-09-12 0

Indiscretions of Eve

Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searchi ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Waiter

1932-01-20 0

Money for Nothing

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supp ...
Genre :Comedy

1932-03-31 0

The New Hotel

A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring ...
Genre :Music

Waiter

1932-03-31 0

Partners Please

An aristocrat becomes a gigolo. ...
Genre :Comedy

Leveridge

1932-07-25 0

The Strangler

A British crime film directed by Norman Lee ...
Genre :Crime

Hoodlum

1932-09-26 4

Strip! Strip! Hooray!!! or (Fun with the Sunbathers)

A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'. ...
Genre :Comedy

1932-07-25 0

Tin Gods

A concert pianist loses his hearing but finds a new sense of purpose by helping others. A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer. ...
Genre :Drama

Drunk

1928-09-03 0

Adam's Apple

An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law. ...
Genre :Comedy

Osso

1935-04-07 10

18 Minutes

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the li ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Bronson

1936-07-28 6.9

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Yokel

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

Bert

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

Sailor

1936-08-01 6.4

Keep Your Seats, Please

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortun ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1946-06-17 5

I'll Turn to You

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home. ...
Genre :Music

Det. Sergeant Helmsley

1936-12-01 6.1

Dusty Ermine

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps hel ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

M.C at Dance

1943-06-01 5.5

Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Mullins

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

Builder's Labourer (uncredited)

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

Customer

1942-12-07 6

We’ll Smile Again

Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Nick Larkin

1935-10-01 0

Lend Me Your Wife

'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :

Mr. Mountford

1936-09-30 0

Southern Roses

A musical comedy of false identities. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Sergeant

1932-07-27 0

Insult

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :Drama