Known For
Complete Filmography
She Knows Y'Know
1962
as Joe Worswick
Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
Over the Odds
1961
as Sam
A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.
On the Fiddle
1961
as Ticket Collector
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl...
Watch It, Sailor!
1961
as Henry Hornett
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-...
Light Up the Sky!
1960
as 'Spinner' Rice
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Sailor Beware
1956
as Henry Hornett
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,rai...
Value for Money
1955
as Writ Server (uncredited)
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decide...
Sailor Beware!
1955
as Henry Hornett
BBC television adaptation of the Philip King and Falkland L. Cary play about an imminent wedding becoming endangered by a domineering matriarch.
Svengali
1954
as Stage Manager
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Burnt Evidence
1954
as Alf Quinney
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he h...
Wheel of Fate
1953
as Perce
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over L...
Women of Twilight
1953
as Flinton
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers tha...
Hindle Wakes
1952
as Hotel Porter
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 ...
The Big Frame
1952
as Det. Sgt. Roper
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into ...
Stolen Face
1952
as Alf Bixby, Innkeeper
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict b...
Night Was Our Friend
1951
as Reporter
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr....
Green Grow the Rushes
1951
as Hubert Hewitt
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back...
Mystery Junction
1951
as Station Master
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a no...
Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951
as Man at Nightclub Bar (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
The Third Visitor
1951
as Detective Horton
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corp...
The Dark Man
1951
as Samuel Denny
A killer called 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to p...
Old Mother Riley, Headmistress
1950
as Maltby
The 13th film in the Old Mother Riley series.
The Rocking Horse Winner
1949
as bailiff
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out...
The Interrupted Journey
1949
as Publican
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, h...
Conspirator
1949
as Detective Inspector
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
It's Hard to be Good
1948
as Fred Hobson
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
Romance on the High Seas
1948
as English Bartender (uncredited)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...
Daughter of Darkness
1948
as Joe
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters ...
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947
as Bert
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
School for Secrets
1946
as Flight Sgt. Cox
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of B...
Appointment with Crime
1946
as Det. Sgt. Charlie Weeks
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing...
The Echo Murders
1945
as P.C. Morgan
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Don Chicago
1945
as Flash Kelly
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangle...
On Stage Everybody
1945
as Talent Show Winner
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Meet Sexton Blake
1945
as Belford
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 kille...
The Agitator
1945
as Dunham
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...
One Exciting Night
1944
as Joe
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
as Publican (uncredited)
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds ...
When We Are Married
1943
as Fred Dyson
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that th...
They Flew Alone
1942
as Aquitania Radio Operator
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro...
The Flying Squad
1940
as Tiser
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Law and Disorder
1940
as Barber
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by...
Traitor Spy
1939
as Det. Sgt. Trotter
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Sword of Honour
1939
as Bright
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
The Return of the Frog
1938
as Maggs
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
St. Martin's Lane
1938
as Black Face
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic mono...
The Challenge
1938
as Customs Officer
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Storm in a Teacup
1937
as Councillor
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.
O.H.M.S.
1937
as Steward
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie i...
Jack of All Trades
1936
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a ba...
Pot Luck
1936
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stol...
The Last Journey
1935
as Postal Sorter
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicio...
Lend Me Your Wife
1935
as Charles Harwood
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bulldog Jack
1935
as Duke
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil...
Me and Marlborough
1935
as Corporal Fox
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Hello, Sweetheart
1935
as Mac McGuire
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in...
Brown on Resolution
1935
as William Brown, Jr.
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal...
The Black Abbot
1934
as Alf Higgins
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Waltzes from Vienna
1934
as Secretary (uncredited)
Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl g...
It's a Cop
1934
as Lewis
Wild Boy
1934
as Kennel Boy
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound D...
The Fortunate Fool
1933
as Herb Brown
A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her ...
Friday the Thirteenth
1933
as Fred, the Driver
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a...
The Roof
1933
as McNair
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
The Man from Toronto
1933
as Gossiping Villager
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelo...
The Mayor's Nest
1932
as Magistrate
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Lucky Girl
1932
as Courtier
Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, tra...
The Innocents of Chicago
1932
as Gangster
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Retribution
1931
as The Tramp
Sheila sees the folly of her ways when husband, John, is to be hanged for murdering her paramour, but once trusty Bill from the CID is on the case, th...
His First Car
1930
as Salesman
A husband wins £200 and buys a car.
The Desert Sheik
1924
as Lord Howard Cecil
Fires of Fate
1923
as Lord Howard Cecil
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
Class and No Class
1921
as Lord Daventry
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp.