Alfred Drayton

AKA:
0.2969

1881-11-01

Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {37}

Christopher Watney

1938-01-01 0

A Spot of Bother

Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is entrusted with overseeing the investment, but is soon out of his de ...
Genre :Comedy

Wackford Squeers

1947-03-12 6.5

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. McLintock

1935-11-07 6.3

First a Girl

An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which causes problems for her when a very determined young ...
Genre :Comedy

Eustace Bogle

1934-06-07 0

It's a Boy

"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippet ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilfred Prescott

1948-11-03 4.375

Things Happen at Night

A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Belfer

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

Uncle Samson

1935-02-08 5

Oh, Daddy!

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Sir Monagu Thumpeter

1936-12-01 0

Tropical Trouble

A series of misunderstanding leads to a colonial governor's wife suspecting him of an affair with his assistant. ...
Genre :

Sergeant Bull

1935-07-22 5

Me and Marlborough

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Lawrence Knight

1946-03-05 5.7

They Knew Mr. Knight

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to ...
Genre :Drama

Joseph Pike

1944-11-13 5.9

Don't Take It to Heart

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Carl Graham

1934-12-12 5.7

Radio Parade of 1935

One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programmin ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Comedy

News Editor

1933-06-15 9

Falling for You

In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying a ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Digby Pound

1942-04-20 5.8

Banana Ridge

When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father. ...
Genre :Comedy

Thomas Potter

1937-01-19 0

Aren't Men Beasts!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father! ...
Genre :

Quill

1934-11-27 5.8

Lady in Danger

Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee. ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Lord Worthing

1939-03-01 0

So This Is London

American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal. ...
Genre :Comedy

Prosecutor

1930-02-25 7

The W Plan

A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to ass ...
Genre :War, Action, Adventure

Alfred Bandle

1943-01-18 0

Women Aren't Angels

Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. Th ...
Genre :War, Comedy

Adm. Fraser

1934-02-02 4

Jack Ahoy

A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Insp. Parr

1936-08-10 4.8

The Crimson Circle

Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers ...
Genre :Drama

Walter Angel

1933-01-01 0

The Little Damozel

A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Manning

1934-06-17 5.6

Red Ensign

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship bu ...
Genre :Drama

Count Brandt

1935-02-07 6

The Dictator

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and th ...
Genre :History, Romance

Direktor

1942-01-19 6.5

The Big Blockade

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Edmondson

1931-04-21 0

Brown Sugar

The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help h ...
Genre :Romance

John Dory

1931-10-19 0

The Calendar

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hi ...
Genre :Drama

Lew Friedman

1930-06-01 0

The Squeaker

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Life of the party

1931-10-01 0

The Happy Ending

A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero. ...
Genre :Drama

Ambrose Parker

1932-02-01 6

Lord Babs

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

King Wilhelm von Ormstein

1921-04-01 0

A Scandal in Bohemia

Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

The Detective

1933-11-01 6

Friday the Thirteenth

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

De Preyne

1921-01-01 0

Love Maggy

Genre :Drama

De Preyne

1920-10-30 0

The Honeypot

Genre :Romance

Sir Herbert Hudson

1920-06-01 0

A Temporary Gentleman

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Bigland

1919-05-01 0

A Little Bit of Fluff

Genre :Comedy

Frank Deakin

1915-06-01 0

Iron Justice

Genre :Crime, Drama