Known For
Complete Filmography
Question of Love
1978
as Le juge anglais
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom...
Something's Wrong
1978
as Old Man
The businessman's private medical check-up is usually considered one of the perks of the job, but Trevor finds that all is not quite what it seems whe...
The Portland Millions
1976
as Mr. Chichele Plowden
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
The Man from Nowhere
1975
as George Harvey
The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her ri...
The Ruling Class
1972
as Lord
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; ...
Zeppelin
1971
as Prime Minister
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mot...
Song of Norway
1970
as Gade
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian...
The Suicide Club
1970
as Sir Montague Malthus
Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.
Who Killed the Cat?
1966
as Gregory
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964
as Minister at Graveside
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself ma...
The Haunting
1963
as Eldridge Harper
Dr. John Markway invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...
Postman's Knock
1962
as Mr. Fordyce
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Inn...
The Golden Rabbit
1962
A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him...
Two Letter Alibi
1962
as Sir John Fawcett
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whis...
Three on a Spree
1961
as Judge
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what ...
Offbeat
1961
as J. B. Wykeham
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner ...
And the Same to You
1960
as Trout (as Ronald Adams)
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elabora...
Shoot to Kill
1960
as Wood
A showbiz reporter gets involved with political intrigue.
Snowball
1960
as Mr. King
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a w...
Please Turn Over
1959
as Mr. Appleton
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller...
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959
as Sir John Farthing
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king ...
The Golden Disc
1958
as Mr. Dryden
The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.
The Naked Truth
1957
as Chemist (uncredited)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rat...
The Surgeon's Knife
1957
as Major Tilling
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Sea Wife
1957
as Army Padre
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army offic...
Inside Information
1957
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
Carry On Admiral
1957
as First Sea Lord
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of...
Kill Me Tomorrow
1957
as Mr. Brook
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Woman and the Hunter
1957
as Inspector McGregor
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, trage...
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Club Steward
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
Assignment Redhead
1956
as Scammel / Dumetrius
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls f...
Reach for the Sky
1956
as Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing lead...
Tons of Trouble
1956
as Psychiatrist
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
The Man Who Never Was
1956
as Adams
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
Private's Progress
1956
as Doctor at Medical
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be office...
To Dorothy, a Son
1954
as Parsons
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets...
The Black Knight
1954
as The Abbot
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonilan...
The Beachcomber
1954
as Sir Henry Johnstone (uncredited)
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the ...
Forbidden Cargo
1954
as Mr. Bennett
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Front Page Story
1954
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane cr...
Johnny-on-the-Spot
1954
as Insp. Beveridge
An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
The Million Pound Note
1954
as Samuel Clements
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a ...
Flannelfoot
1953
as Insp. Duggan
Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps d...
Flannelfoot
1953
as Inspector Duggan
Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps d...
Malta Story
1953
as Operations Room Controller
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese gi...
Top Secret
1952
as Barworth Controller
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyon...
Hindle Wakes
1952
as Mr. Nat Jeffcote
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help ...
Circumstantial Evidence
1952
as Sir William Hanson QC
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappe...
Angels One Five
1952
as Group Controller
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
Mr. Denning Drives North
1951
as Coroner
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and...
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
as Turner
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Laughter in Paradise
1951
as Bank Manager
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something whic...
Hell Is Sold Out
1951
as Specialist
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Adm. McCartney
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship a...
The Late Edwina Black
1951
as Head-Master
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and h...
Fortune in Diamonds
1951
as Van Thaal
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 hi...
Seven Days to Noon
1950
as Arthur Lytton, the Prime Minister
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven...
Shadow of the Past
1950
as solicitor
A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.
My Daughter Joy
1950
as Col. Fogarty
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
Boys in Brown
1949
as Judge
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Bo...
Christopher Columbus
1949
as Talavera
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical...
Diamond City
1949
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Under Capricorn
1949
as Mr. Riggs
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to hel...
Black Magic
1949
as Court President
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Obsession
1949
as Talkative, balding club member
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
All Over the Town
1949
as Sam Vane
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's par...
The Bad Lord Byron
1949
as Judge
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
That Dangerous Age
1949
as Prosecutor
The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word ...
The Case of Charles Peace
1949
as Counsel for Defence
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even mu...
Helter Skelter
1949
as Director General of the BBC
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
as Macleod
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the ...
Fame Is the Spur
1947
as Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to ...
The Phantom Shot
1947
as Caleb Horder
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as ...
Take My Life
1947
as Det Sgt Hawkins - Deaf Man
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Green for Danger
1946
as Dr. White
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Morning Departure
1946
as Lt. McFee
At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killi...
Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkar...
Journey Together
1945
as Commanding Officer at Falcon Field
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Escape to Danger
1943
as George Merrick
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
The Foreman Went to France
1942
as Sir Charles Fawcett, Managing Director
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
At the Villa Rose
1940
as Mons. Besnard
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those g...
Meet Maxwell Archer
1940
as Nicolides
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Hell's Cargo
1939
as Capt. Dukes
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
The Lion Has Wings
1939
as German Bomber Chief
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British...
The Missing People
1939
as Surtees
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to inve...
Inspector Hornleigh
1939
as Wittens
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon...
Q Planes
1939
as Pollack - Aviation Engineer
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 aircraf...
The Drum
1938
as Major Gregoff
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the ho...
Strange Boarders
1938
as Barstow
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a Lo...
Kate Plus Ten
1938
as Police Chief
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?