Hay Petrie

AKA: David Hay Petrie
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1895-07-16

Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {75}

Merchant (Phase III)

1933-11-15 7.6

The Wandering Jew

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymou ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Waiter

1934-03-01 0

The Queen's Affair

Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minu ...
Genre :Romance

Mr Edwards

1934-01-01 0

Colonel Blood

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue) ...
Genre :

Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam

1939-05-11 6.1

Jamaica Inn

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ship ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure, Thriller

Herman's Servant

1949-03-16 6.5

The Queen of Spades

A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

the barber

1948-09-28 5.094

Noose

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of hone ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Axel Skold

1940-05-11 7.1

Contraband

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies. ...
Genre :Thriller, War

Dr. Isidor Fosco

1940-03-01 6

Crimes at the Dark House

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror

New York theatre manager

1936-12-01 5.7

Forget Me Not

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

Tiberius Cavallo

1931-12-01 4.2

The Conquest of the Air

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s. ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Spy

1934-12-23 5.2

Moscow Nights

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrial ...
Genre :Romance, War, Drama

Fair Owner

1946-01-08 6

The Voice Within

Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggl ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Kissack

1942-05-18 0

Hard Steel

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him. ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Henry Markham (uncredited)

1945-05-28 0

For You Alone

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

New York Manager

1935-01-01 0

Do Not Forget About Me

This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical select ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Astrologer

1940-02-19 7.135

The Thief of Bagdad

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess. ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Nazi Pastor

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

Stephen Neale

1939-12-01 6

Inquest

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is event ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Landlord

1944-05-22 7

On Approval

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Remenado

1931-10-30 0

Gipsy Blood

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

1941-12-01 0

Rush Hour

The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour". ...
Genre :

Sebastian

1941-02-04 6.3

Freedom Radio

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a poli ...
Genre :Drama, War

Quilp

1934-12-14 5.3

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. ...
Genre :Drama

Fraser

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

The King's Barber (uncredited)

1933-08-17 6.391

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that ...
Genre :History, Drama

Woodcock

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

Stage Door Keeper

1939-02-21 5.9

Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while ove ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Engineer

1939-08-03 6.395

The Spy in Black

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet. ...
Genre :War, Thriller

Mahdi Interpreter

1939-04-20 7.1

The Four Feathers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War, History

Jevons

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

Mr. Clappit

1933-08-29 5

Matinee Idol

A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Professor

1935-12-04 5.3

Crimson Dynasty

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's ...
Genre :Drama, History

Farmhand

1933-12-04 0

Song of the Plough

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute) ...
Genre :Drama

Minesweeper Skipper

1940-09-28 5.4

Convoy

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII. ...
Genre :Drama, War

John Aloysius Evan

1940-01-07 6.1

21 Days Together

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Benoit

1940-06-01 7.5

Ten Days in Paris

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and ha ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Scotty

1930-10-16 2

Night Birds

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Orlando

1936-11-01 5.5

The House of the Spaniard

A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up… ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Station Master

1937-07-23 5.6

Knight Without Armour

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position ...
Genre :History, Drama, Adventure, Romance

Periteau

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 :

Scruffy

1930-07-04 0

Suspense

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Robert Pigeon

1937-04-22 6

Secret Lives

A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country. ...
Genre :Drama

Solicitor

1937-01-01 0

The Two Frightened Ladies

Dramatised short about the advantages of gas appliances in the home, with music. ...
Genre :Comedy, Animation

Cathcart

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

Old Dan

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

Cascal

1935-10-24 0

I Give My Heart

The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th ce ...
Genre :

Old General

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

Railway Porter

1941-04-19 5

Quiet Wedding

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Drunk

1941-08-01 6.5

Turned Out Nice Again

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Procurator Fiscal

1941-02-04 6.6

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Truscott

1941-09-06 6.6

Cottage to Let

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

French Ambassador

1934-08-01 6.6

Nell Gwyn

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of ...
Genre :History

Uncle Pumblechook

1946-12-26 7.282

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Photographer

1933-06-17 4

The Lucky Number

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music, Crime

Director

1931-11-01 0

Many Waters

An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth. ...
Genre :Romance

Grimshaw, the Curio Shop Proprietor

1948-06-01 5.8

The Monkey's Paw

A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow. ...
Genre :Thriller

Britt

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

Peck

1948-10-26 7.2

The Guinea Pig

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. ...
Genre :Drama

Clock Winder

1948-09-30 7.2

The Fallen Idol

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mr. Rich

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 :

Worker in Pagan's Office (uncredited)

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 McLaggen

1935-12-17 6.5

The Ghost Goes West

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Fantasy

Waiter (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

Tom

1946-10-16 7

The Laughing Lady

A musical set during the French Revolution. ...
Genre :Music

The Burgomaster

1942-04-24 6.6

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Station Master

1946-01-08 6.3

Night Boat to Dublin

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

Talkative sailor at table

1942-09-07 5

Sabotage at Sea

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them. ...
Genre :Drama, War

The Cabby

1946-11-01 0

Midnight Taxi

A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Savings. ...
Genre :

Harry

1935-03-04 0

Blind Justice

When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One. ...
Genre :Crime

Jeweller (uncredited)

1936-11-06 6.8

Rembrandt

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of h ...
Genre :Drama, History

The Undertaker

1938-11-24 0

Consider Your Verdict

A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime. ...
Genre :Drama

1936-05-01 0

Men of Yesterday

A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion. ...
Genre :Drama

Hector Peter

1939-09-30 5

Shipyard Sally

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Phineas

1942-11-09 6.5

The Great Mr Handel

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Captain MacTavish

1938-10-17 0

The Last Barricade

Michael, war correspondent in Spain, loves a Spanish girl. He wants them to return to England, but her father is unwilling to go. In the meantime Maria discovers that her father is a spy and working f ...
Genre :War, Drama