Jack Melford

AKA: John Kenneth George Melford Smith

7.3831

1899-09-05

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {46}

Judge

1965-04-07 5

Three Clear Sundays

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Soames

1960-11-18 0

Feet of Clay

Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), who refuses to explain his involvement in the murder ...

Genre :

Kenneth Warwick

1933-09-18 0

Night of the Garter

'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue) ...

Genre :Comedy

Thompson

1937-01-01 5

When Thief Meets Thief

A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner. ...

Genre :Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Grimes

1960-12-01 5

Compelled

An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Raymond Dirk

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

Dr. Dormer Franklyn

1948-01-01 4.8

When You Come Home

When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bishop

1971-01-17 5.8

Lust for a Vampire

In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not ...

Genre :Horror

Inspector Miles

1961-01-01 5

The Gentle Terror

The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Bob Burge Goodman

1935-10-06 6

Department Store

The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged for a cracksman, just out of priso ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Journalist

1935-08-13 4.5

Look Up and Laugh

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Dr. Martock

1948-02-05 6.6

My Brother Jonathan

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Blac ...

Genre :Drama

Lt. Terry, pilot

1938-11-01 5.688

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

Pop Currie

1938-08-01 6

Hold My Hand

Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him? ...

Genre :Comedy

Dame

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

Reggie Clifford

1936-10-20 0

Radio Lover

A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune. ...

Genre :

Mackay

1953-11-09 6

Background

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love fo ...

Genre :Drama

Count Castelli

1937-06-28 4

Let's Make a Night of It

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Detective (uncredited)

1955-12-08 7.275

The Ladykillers

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Desert Bus Tour Guide (uncredited)

1940-09-03 5.7

Crook's Tour

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

The Journalist

1937-08-19 6.5

Command Performance

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre ...

Genre :Music, Drama

Jerry Tulse

1940-09-07 0

The Briggs Family

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

The Psycho-Analyst

1964-06-23 7.184

A Shot in the Dark

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irrita ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Sir Reginald Toothill

1931-02-23 0

The Sport of Kings

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betti ...

Genre :Comedy

Rudolph

1936-04-12 0

Birds of a Feather

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat. ...

Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Wilcox

1947-08-28 6.2

The October Man

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Lars Toren

1961-01-01 0

Follow That Man

A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense. ...

Genre :Comedy

Maurice Lugard

1949-01-04 6

Warning to Wantons

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Defence Lawyer at Court Martial (uncredited)

1943-08-11 6.3

They Met in the Dark

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices d ...

Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Court Official

1956-04-10 6

Guilty?

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name. ...

Genre :Drama

Menelaus

1965-11-06 7.3

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama

Inspector Gates

1957-12-01 5.4

The End of the Line

The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Lord Barrymore

1946-10-16 7

The Laughing Lady

A musical set during the French Revolution. ...

Genre :Music

Himself

1943-07-26 3.5

Theatre Royal

The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's prope ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Falcon

1962-06-11 0

What Every Woman Wants

A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands ...

Genre :Comedy

Reilly

1962-01-01 0

Gang War

During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket. ...

Genre :Drama

Telephone engineer

1964-01-01 6

A Home of Your Own

A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several year ...

Genre :Comedy

Stewart

1961-06-01 0

The Fourth Square

The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder. ...

Genre :Crime

Norrin

1956-09-15 6.5

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russ ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

Thomas Bevill

1955-09-27 4

ITV Play of the Week

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorpor ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Sir Owen Tudor

1961-11-12 4.5

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the se ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

Mr Quelch

1952-02-19 0

Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School

Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard, getting six of the best from Mr Quelch, failing to t ...

Genre :Comedy

Thomas

1960-01-30 7

Man from Interpol

Anthony Smith, an agent based at Britain's Interpol Division at Scotland Yard, takes on international assignments dealing with murderers, drug smugglers and slave runners. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Platina

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

Monk

1962-06-04 0

Richard the Lionheart

A kid-friendly take on the exploits of King Richard the Lion Heart, from his participation in the Crusades, to his capture in Austria, to his final return to England. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Family

Colonel Dewer

1963-09-28 6

The Sentimental Agent

The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. Produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment, the series ran ...