Howard Douglas

AKA:
0.6867

1896-01-12

Hackney, London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {53}

Eddie

1955-01-01 0

The Desperate Women

The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion. ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1947-06-23 5.7

Dear Murderer

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime. ...
Genre :Thriller

Tweest

1954-06-01 6

Meet Mr. Callaghan

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

3rd Chauffeur (uncredited)

1950-02-23 6.8

Stage Fright

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer. ...
Genre :Thriller

Old Bill

1960-01-07 0

Jungle Street

In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Doctor

1937-04-07 6.2

The Wife of General Ling

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Donald Urquhart

1953-10-26 4.964

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, War

Jenkins

1948-09-27 7.7

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole. ...
Genre :Drama

1946-11-30 4.9

The Night Comes Too Soon

When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman's late wife, and her lov ...
Genre :Horror

Fane

1939-01-09 0

Men Without Honour

A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin. ...
Genre :Crime

Coleman

1937-07-31 6.8

Brief Ecstasy

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion... ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

A Ropemaker

1938-09-14 5.9

The Challenge

Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865. ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, History

Bailiff

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

Hotel Manager

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

Miner at Rescue

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

William Tabb

1947-01-19 0

Rebecca

Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947. ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1952-12-01 5.3

Escape Route

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Watchman

1947-02-01 6.4

Hue and Cry

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Adventure

The Landlord

1939-03-27 5.8

Design for Murder

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiven ...
Genre :Crime

Mr. Van Der Geun

1937-10-04 5.5

Return of a Stranger

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor w ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Williams

1950-07-19 6.581

Treasure Island

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Gluckstein

1936-01-01 0

The Big Noise

A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Gambler on Ship

1937-08-01 5

Under a Cloud

Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he obs ...
Genre :Crime

Lord Amberley

1937-03-05 6.176

Fire Over England

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England ...
Genre :History, Drama, Romance

Weisskopf (uncredited)

1934-11-01 5.7

Death at Broadcasting House

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion. ...
Genre :Mystery

The Vet, Dr. Weaver

1961-07-25 7.1

Whistle Down the Wind

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Chairman of the First Meeting (uncredited)

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

Turner

1935-10-28 6.5

No Limit

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'T ...
Genre :Comedy

Chief Warder

1947-06-24 6.676

They Made Me a Fugitive

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Gentleman of the Stock Exchange

1950-12-27 0

A Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and h ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Head Park Keeper

1946-06-17 6.3

Wanted for Murder

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lorry Driver

1947-06-17 6.857

The Upturned Glass

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspe ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Clubman

1950-09-11 6.5

State Secret

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Romance, Mystery

Cinema Caretaker

1965-01-01 5

Three Hats for Lisa

French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw his ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Guest at Birthday Party (uncredited)

1946-07-04 6.3

I See a Dark Stranger

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary infor ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Fisherman (uncredited)

1948-04-06 6.2

Miranda

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Newspaper Editor (uncredited)

1949-09-29 7

Trottie True

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upw ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Comedy

Old Man

1967-05-18 6.2

The Plank

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate em ...
Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1949-01-01 5.5

Born of the Sea

Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the lifeboat crew. ...
Genre :Drama

Preston

1945-12-17 4.5

The Echo Murders

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes. ...
Genre :Thriller

Barge Captain Sweeney

1949-05-20 6.533

Man on the Run

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Hotel Porter (uncredited)

1946-01-08 6.3

Night Boat to Dublin

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist. ...
Genre :Thriller

Taylor

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

Nobby Clarke

1948-06-01 4.5

Cup-Tie Honeymoon

Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Quilp

1946-05-13 5.9

Appointment with Crime

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Le ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ticket Inspector (uncredited)

1935-06-01 5.333

The Silent Passenger

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer? ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Music Shop Manager

1935-06-01 6.5

Off the Dole

Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a sc ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Dr. Collins

1949-07-01 9

Old Mother Riley's New Venture

Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow. ...
Genre :Comedy

Broom

1950-10-03 6.5

The Mudlark

It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria... ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Bloom

1935-01-01 0

His Majesty & Co.

John, holidaying in the Ruritanian principality of Poldavia, falls for Princess Sandra. Returning to Britain, he meets not only the princess but her parents. As the King is a wine expert and the Queen ...
Genre :Music

Harry

1965-03-18 6.8

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. ...
Genre :Drama

Tom Crofton

1962-10-04 7.312

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ticket Collector

1962-10-04 7.312

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery