David Keir

AKA:
0.0168

1884-02-07

Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {45}

Mr. McDougall

1946-04-29 6.4

The Captive Heart

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the N ...
Genre :Drama, War

1945-11-22 6.3

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Lawyer Mr. Merriman

1940-03-01 5.8

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

Jacquier

1943-04-05 6

Tomorrow We Live

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sab ...
Genre :War, Drama

Jordan

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

Charlie Kunn

1945-02-05 5.5

Meet Sexton Blake

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid. ...
Genre :Thriller

The Realtor

1948-05-24 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

Grosmont

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

Doctor

1952-02-10 5.5

Song of Paris

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle. ...
Genre :Comedy

Brown

1938-09-16 4.7

This Man Is News

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Gentlemen Customer

1947-03-10 6.269

The Shop at Sly Corner

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for cri ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1944-01-19 7

Two Fathers

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Estate Agent

1946-06-17 5

I'll Turn to You

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home. ...
Genre :Music

Mr Quince

1952-01-25 5.7

The Last Page

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Professor

1951-09-06 5.5

Honeymoon Deferred

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Meadow

1939-11-01 6.6

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was mur ...
Genre :Crime

uncredited

1949-04-21 5.2

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

1949-04-21 5.2

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

Mr. Wickes (uncredited)

1938-10-29 6.4

The Citadel

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When hi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

House Agent

1952-12-01 0

A Ghost for Sale

A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes. ...
Genre :Horror

Merridew

1939-03-06 0

Five at the George

Visitors to the George hotel in Crewsworth are haunted by a ghost. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror

Man Stuffing Cushions

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

Councillor

1939-06-29 7

Where's That Fire

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Gambler (uncredited)

1952-12-26 5.2

The Gambler and the Lady

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Train Passenger (uncredited)

1943-11-16 5.5

Headline

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Quiney

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

Dr. Ritchie

1941-04-01 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

Drawbridge

1940-02-24 5

The Girl Who Forgot

A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage... ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Gruppy

1951-03-01 8.5

Smart Alec

A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Professor

1944-04-28 6.2

Tawny Pipit

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in ...
Genre :Drama

1st Magistrate (uncredited)

1942-12-04 6.3

Thunder Rock

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly in ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, War

Walter

1949-04-09 8

Blue Scar

1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town. ...
Genre :Drama

Jury Foreman

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

Doctor

1938-05-02 6.3

The Terror

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-c ...
Genre :Mystery

Creditor

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

Mr. Purvis (uncredited)

1943-11-29 5.4

The Lamp Still Burns

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Chemist

1946-07-08 5.2

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

Henry (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

(uncredited)

1944-07-28 5.7

English Without Tears

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family ...
Genre :Comedy

Curly

1949-01-01 5

A Man's Affair

A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast and love blossoms. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1941-07-22 6.2

This England

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Postman

1947-05-07 5.2

The Brothers

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited. ...
Genre :Drama

1948-07-28 3

The Dark Road

Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Jury Foreman

1947-08-13 5.4

Jassy

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately hom ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Mr. Finningley

1942-08-11 6.2

Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall. ...
Genre :Comedy