Frederick Burtwell

AKA:
2.1083

1893-12-20

Bermondsey, London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {38}

Branston

1947-10-08 5.8

Uncle Silas

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery

Sheriff Mercury

1947-03-12 6.571

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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

Morgan

1939-08-13 0

Murder Will Out

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them th ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Willie Wainwright

1943-10-18 6.067

The Dark Tower

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mr. Easthupp

1935-11-01 5.9

Midshipman Easy

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of t ...
Genre :Adventure

Mr. Berry

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

Fortheringay

1936-03-01 0

Twelve Good Men

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who save ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Rash the Schoolmaster

1937-08-25 6.6

Doctor Syn

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Policeman

1938-09-23 6.6

Penny Paradise

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not re ...
Genre :Comedy

1935-06-01 5.5

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

Simpson

1936-11-16 7

Laburnum Grove

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he ...
Genre :Comedy

Hodder

1939-09-24 4

A Girl Must Live

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Detective

1938-02-10 8.1

I See Ice

George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue.... ...
Genre :Comedy

Murgatroyd

1937-03-12 0

Feather Your Nest

A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Jacques

1931-10-08 0

Night Shadows

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he picks a fight with her and an aggressive client, Julo ...
Genre :Crime

Union Official

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

Phillips

1939-12-01 2

Confidential Lady

Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the not ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Captain Müller

1943-06-16 6

The Silver Fleet

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van Leyden is summoned to build ships for the German war ...
Genre :Drama, War

Pedro

1934-10-08 0

The Path of Glory

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jenkinson

1937-07-19 0

The Vulture

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1938-01-01 0

The Singing Cop

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Harry

1940-01-27 0

His Brother’s Keeper

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI. ...
Genre :Romance

Mr. George

1938-07-23 0

Dangerous Medicine

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

1938-01-01 0

Simply Terrific

Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe. ...
Genre :Comedy

Morton

1937-06-07 0

It’s Not Cricket

“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI. ...
Genre :Comedy

Junior Counsel

1931-02-24 0

Other People's Sins

A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter. ...
Genre :Crime

Det. Inspector Grant

1935-03-26 5

Inside the Room

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Hubert

1936-09-01 0

Educated Evans

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jenkins

1946-07-15 5.5

Gaiety George

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Charlie (fence)

1942-06-02 0

Partners in Crime

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver). ...
Genre :Comedy

Pacey

1945-07-30 5

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected. ...
Genre :Music

Lawyer

1945-04-08 4.6

Read All About It

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease ac ...
Genre :Drama

Jenkins

1946-10-16 7

The Laughing Lady

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

Saskia’s Brother (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

Norman Prodder

1938-12-01 0

Everything Happens to Me

A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pim

1936-12-29 0

Gypsy

Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After faintin ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Stromboli

1933-11-11 0

Just My Luck

Genre :Comedy

1943-04-15 6.4

We Dive at Dawn

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their fami ...
Genre :War, Action, Drama