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Complete Filmography
High Jinks in Society
1949
as Grandpa
After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.

The Hills of Donegal
1947
as Old Jake
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).

Green Fingers
1947
as Pickles
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is beli...

The Root of All Evil
1947
as Scholes
Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Ch...

Green for Danger
1946
as Joseph Higgins
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

I'll Be Your Sweetheart
1945
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.
What's the Next Job?
1945
as Harold Wright
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.

A Place of One's Own
1945
as George
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However,...

The Agitator
1945
as Ben Duckett
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young...

Don't Take It to Heart
1944
as Granfer
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...
It Happened One Sunday
1944
as Porter
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.

Time Flies
1944
as A Soothsayer
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (...

Millions Like Us
1943
as Jim Crowson
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a fa...

Back-Room Boy
1942
as Jerry
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up ...

Hi Gang!
1941
as Uncle Jerry
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popula...

I Thank You
1941
as Pop Bennett
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded whe...

Gasbags
1941
as Jerry
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by runnin...

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940
as Jerry
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. T...

Band Waggon
1940
as Jasper
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

The Frozen Limits
1939
as Tom Tiddler
The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.

A Girl Must Live
1939
as Bretherton Hythe / Lord Grandonald
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Cheer Boys Cheer
1939
as Geordie
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Where's That Fire
1939
as Jeremiah Harbottle
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Ask a Policeman
1939
as Harbottle
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wa...

Old Bones of the River
1938
as Jerry Harbottle
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R....

Convict 99
1938
as Jerry The Mole
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi...

Held For Ransom
1938
as Hathaway
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

Owd Bob
1938
as Samuel
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that a...
Intimate Relations
1937
as Toomley
George Gommery enjoys slipping up to town to see some little actress, and never suspects that his wife can play the same game just as well as he can. ...

Oh, Mr. Porter!
1937
as Jeremiah Harbottle
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless...

Victoria the Great
1937
as Train Driver
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule aft...

Feather Your Nest
1937
as Mr. Jenkins
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Accused
1936
as Dubec (as George Moore Marriott)
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later ...

Windbag the Sailor
1936
as Harbottle
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc...

When Knights Were Bold
1936
as The Tramp
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...
The Man Without a Face
1935
as Tinker John
A young man is wrongly accused of a brutal murder, is tried and sentenced to death. En route to the prison there is a major train crash and his guards...

Turn of the Tide
1935
as Tindal Fosdyck
Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorksh...

Drake of England
1935
as Bright
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's ...

Dandy Dick
1935
as Stableboy
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly ÂŁ1,000 to fix. When various money-r...
The Feathered Serpent
1934
as Harry Hugg
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
Nell Gwyn
1934
as Robin
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent comp...

A Political Party
1934
as Jim Turner
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love...

Faces
1934
as Robert Pelham
'Suburban beautician almost elopes with rich client's husband.' (British Film Catalogue)

Love's Old Sweet Song
1933
as Old Tom
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Dora
1933
as Thomas Henry Jones
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film...

Hawleys of High Street
1933
as Mr. Busworth
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

Money for Speed
1933
as Shorty
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Little Waitress
1932
as Baron Halfsburg
A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.

The Wonderful Story
1932
as Zacky Richards
A paralysed farmer watches his brother fall in love with the woman he intended to marry.
Heroes of the Mine
1932
as Gaffer
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman

The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
1932
as Mordecai Smith
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, H...

Mr. Bill the Conqueror
1932
as Tom Turtle
A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker

The Water Gipsies
1932
as Mr. Pewtar
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her li...
The Crooked Lady
1932
as Crabby
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Nine Till Six
1932
as Doorman
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.

Peace on the Western Front
1931
A moving anti-war drama in which a father explains the futility of war to his young son. The film includes flashbacks from the father’s own nightmare...
Dance Pretty Lady
1931
as Mr. Raeburn
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.

Up for the Cup
1931
as James Hardcastle
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...

The Lyons Mail
1931
as Choppard
A mystery film directed by Arthur Maude
Aroma of the South Seas
1931
as The King
'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)

Kissing Cup's Race
1930
as Joe Tricker
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .

The Flying Scotsman
1929
as Bob White
The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from...

The Lady from the Sea
1929
as Old Roberts
Handsome young fisherman Tom Roberts is among the crew of a lifeboat that rescues Frenchwoman Claire le Grange, sole survivor of a shipwreck on the tr...

Widecombe Fair
1928
as Uncle Tom Cobleigh
'Devon. Rich widow helps poor squire by pretending his ancestor hid treasure.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sweeney Todd
1928
as Sweeney Todd
A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.
Victory
1928
as Seth Lee
'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)

Toni
1928
as Meyer
Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears...

Carry On!
1927
as Mick Trevorn
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Huntingtower
1927
as Spiedel
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a ...
Second to None
1927
as Bill Hyde
London Love
1927
A rich man's chauffeur kills his mistress and frames his daughter's fiancé.
King of the Castle
1925
as Peter Coffin
'A widowed lady, forced into marriage, grows to love her husband when he saves a child from the cliff.' (BFI Filmography)
Confessions
1925
as Hardy
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attrac...
Starlings of the Screen
1925
as Filmtest
A promotional short film made by Stoll Film Company to select an actress to appear in one of their feature films.

Not For Sale
1924
as Solicitor
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.

The Clicking of Cuthbert
1924
as Vladimir Brusiloff
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and de...
The Conspirators
1924
as Morris / Sydney Barnes
A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.

The Monkey's Paw
1923
as John White
A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son.
The Head of the Family
1922
as Mate
A widow weds a bully and tames him by having a sailor pose as her long-lost son.