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Complete Filmography

On the Double
1961
as General Carleton Brown Wiffingham
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and d...

All in a Night's Work
1961
as Carter
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a...

Midnight Lace
1960
as Anthony Preston
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

The Matchmaker
1958
as August
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.

Merry Andrew
1958
as Gregory Larabee
When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancien...

The Birds and the Bees
1956
as Burrows
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's...

A Christmas Carol
1954
as Solicitor
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

A Star Is Born
1954
as Academy Awards Emcee (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

It Should Happen to You
1954
as Con Cooley (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at firs...

Loose in London
1953
as Herbert
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

Captain Pirate
1952
as Gov. Henry Carlyle
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is livin...

Adam's Rib
1949
as Fat Man in Elevator (uncredited)
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who...

Dangerous Millions
1946
as Lance Warburton
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.

Pursuit to Algiers
1945
as Gregor
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean ...

The Brighton Strangler
1945
as Leslie Shelton
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was...

Keep Your Powder Dry
1945
as Marco Cummings
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.

The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Fat Man in Train Passageway (uncredited)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Mrs. Parkington
1944
as Fat Man at Ball (uncredited)
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by m...

Keeper of the Flame
1943
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
as Vazec the Innkeeper
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tr...

The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942
as Sterling
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an af...

The Great Impersonation
1942
as Sir Tristram
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

Brooklyn Orchid
1942
as Sterling
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

The Shanghai Gesture
1941
as The Counselor
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

Suspicion
1941
as Mr. Bailey (uncredited)
A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for mo...

The Philadelphia Story
1940
as Thomas
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
as Martin
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Out West with the Peppers
1940
as Martin
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...

Out West with the Peppers
1940
as Martin - King's Butler
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...

Girl in 313
1940
as Corday, Fashion Show MC
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

Adventure in Diamonds
1940
as Jimmy
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
as Martin
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec...

The Invisible Man Returns
1940
as Constable Briggs (uncredited)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

First Love
1939
as Gerald Bevins
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's har...

It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Scout Master (uncredited)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by ...

Lord Jeff
1938
as Hotel Doorman
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca...

The First Hundred Years
1938
as Reggie (uncredited)
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC...

The Wrong Road
1937
as Victor J. Holbrook
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, ...

Vogues of 1938
1937
as Londoner in Fall Show
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The...

The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Rich Man
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meet...

Rembrandt
1936
as Civil Guardsman (uncredited)
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...

Aunt Sally
1934
as Percy
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she find...

Comets
1930
as Himself
A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.