Charles Paton

AKA: Charles Ernest Paton

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1874-07-31

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {77}

Mr. White

1929-07-11 6.5

Blackmail

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an el ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Crowther

1936-01-01 0

Jury's Evidence

The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case. ...

Genre :

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

1934-12-01 6.481

The Man Who Knew Too Much

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet. ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Tobacco Shop Proprietor

1939-06-30 5.6

The Saint in London

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Taxi Driver

1935-04-15 0

Royal Cavalcade

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the ye ...

Genre :Drama, Documentary

Farmer

1933-01-31 6.1

The Ghost Camera

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becom ...

Genre :Comedy, Thriller, Romance, Mystery, Crime

Clutters

1937-04-01 0

Museum Mystery

A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

The Mayor

1936-02-18 5

When Knights Were Bold

Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shir ...

Genre :Comedy

French Commandant

1936-05-28 5

The Marriage of Corbal

The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising ...

Genre :

Registrar

1950-11-13 6.5

Portrait of Clare

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young. ...

Genre :Drama

Mine Host

1949-03-31 5.7

Cardboard Cavalier

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a ...

Genre :Comedy

Minor role

1938-10-04 0

Weddings Are Wonderful

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings. ...

Genre :

Varro

1938-12-09 0

Julius Caesar

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underest ...

Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Foreman of the Jury

1938-12-02 6.3

The Ware Case

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Sanders

1934-10-29 4.3

Girls Will Be Boys

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Guest at Official Dinner (uncredited)

1937-02-25 7.5

Storm in a Teacup

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Rev. Fanshawe

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

Barman

1951-03-07 7.5

Fortune in Diamonds

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Ne ...

Genre :Adventure

Platform Speaker (uncredited)

1939-06-01 6.2

The Four Just Men

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider them ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Auction Bidder

1939-03-07 7.3

Inspector Hornleigh

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from t ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

1949-04-21 5.042

For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

uncredited

1949-04-21 5.042

For Them That Trespass

Genre :Drama, Crime

Simion (uncredited)

1940-07-12 6.115

Let George Do It!

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, War

Pa

1933-07-01 0

The Love Nest

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond. ...

Genre :Comedy

Defence Counsel

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

Professor Vivian

1929-11-15 0

The Feather

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute) ...

Genre :Drama

Jem

1931-12-29 0

The Other Mrs. Phipps

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue) ...

Genre :Comedy

Professor Black

1932-03-18 0

Josser Joins the Navy

'Hall porter forced to join Navy while tracking spies.' (British Film Catalogue) ...

Genre :Comedy

Gamp

1934-06-12 0

Freedom of the Seas

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacke ...

Genre :Drama

Chemist (Uncredited)

1940-08-28 6.4

Girl in the News

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares fo ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Innkeeper

1931-10-21 0

The Great Gay Road

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute) ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Samuel Faraday Rickforth

1931-11-04 5.5

Rynox

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, wh ...

Genre :Drama

Saunders

1934-07-16 0

The Girl in Possession

An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England. ...

Genre :Comedy

Doorman (uncredited)

1929-02-01 6.4

Piccadilly

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Mr. Binks

1938-01-01 0

Double or Quits

A reporter on a transatlantic cruise finds himself accused of the theft of valuable stamps. Knowing that he didn't do it, he sets out to find the real thief, but isn't prepared for what he discovers. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Bus Passenger

1932-07-26 5

Love on Wheels

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Steinhof

1941-07-28 7.14

'Pimpernel' Smith

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, s ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Mr. Webster

1937-01-26 6

The Dominant Sex

A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test! ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Briggs

1939-10-27 6

The Body Vanished

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the i ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Mr. Dickens, the Grocer

1949-08-29 6

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill and refuses entry, raising suspicions about her whe ...

Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Jude Sterling

1931-04-01 0

Contraband Love

'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue) ...

Genre :Crime

Thistlethwaite

1930-03-04 0

A Sister to Assist 'Er

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady. ...

Genre :Comedy

George Didier

1931-03-31 0

The Lyons Mail

A mystery film directed by Arthur Maude ...

Genre :Adventure, Mystery

Mr. Ponder

1932-08-22 0

Bachelor's Baby

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country. ...

Genre :Comedy

J.J. Godfrey

1931-02-15 5.3

The Sleeping Cardinal

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Suger Daddy

1931-06-01 0

Stepping Stones

A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead ...

Genre :Music

Prof. Winthrop

1931-07-21 0

The Girl in the Night

'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue) ...

Genre :Crime

Clockwinder

1931-06-05 0

Glamour

A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor. ...

Genre :Drama

Grindle

1931-03-13 0

What a Night!

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Noah Nagg

1931-06-03 0

My Wife's Family

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitima ...

Genre :Comedy

Ward

1933-12-19 0

This Acting Business

A British comedy film directed by John Daumery ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sam Small

1932-02-01 0

The Third String

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion. ...

Genre :Comedy

Family Solicitor

1937-08-13 5

Old Mother Riley

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop th ...

Genre :Comedy

1936-10-21 6

Crime Over London

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store. ...

Genre :Adventure, Romance, Crime

1941-06-08 6.5

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror

Mr. Bishop

1943-11-18 6.3

The Demi-Paradise

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by h ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Mr. Lamb

1950-07-01 6.6

Once a Sinner

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, ...

Genre :Drama

Passenger Arrested on Train

1942-08-01 6.7

The Goose Steps Out

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Watchman (uncredited)

1950-06-15 7.472

Night and the City

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Gardener

1949-05-01 0

The Man from Yesterday

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous h ...

Genre :Thriller

Railway Clerk

1946-07-08 4.643

Bedelia

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chan ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Councillor (uncredited)

1945-12-11 6.2

Caesar and Cleopatra

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra. ...

Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

Ernie Brooks

1944-08-21 6.851

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

On the Kiosk (uncredited)

1948-04-06 6.148

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

(uncredited)

1944-07-31 6.2

Give Us the Moon

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the youn ...

Genre :Comedy

Mayor

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

Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietor

1949-05-20 6.5

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

Auctioneer's Assistant (uncredited)

1944-12-31 6

Strawberry Roan

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to l ...

Genre :Drama

Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)

1949-12-01 6.8

The Spider and the Fly

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Handwriting Expert (Uncredited)

1940-10-12 6

The Door with Seven Locks

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically elimi ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Guest at Ball (uncredited)

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

Burgher at Auction (uncredited)

1936-11-06 6.764

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

Man Holding Dogs (uncredited)

1935-06-01 5.3

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

Old Man

1948-10-11 6

Love in Waiting

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1942-09-21 5.7

The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24. ...