Known For
Complete Filmography
King Lear
1975
as Old Man
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
Gawain and the Green Knight
1973
as Old Knight
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
I, Monster
1971
as Poole
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. ...
The Creeper
1970
as Holmes
A young man starts a new job as companion to a wealthy, eccentric recluse who lives in a large house in a remote area. The only others living there ar...
Cromwell
1970
as William
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell ...
Battle of Britain
1969
as Civilian (uncredited)
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...
What Every Woman Wants
1962
as Maxwell
A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
as Smudge (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft...
The Hands of Orlac
1960
as 2nd Member
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new han...
The Full Treatment
1960
as Mr. Manfield
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous ...
Dracula
1958
as Policeman (uncredited)
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only ...
Quatermass 2
1957
as Super
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly...
The Night of the Full Moon
1954
as Charlie
Story of how American secret agent pursued by enemy agents, hides out at remote English farm
The End of the Road
1954
as Timekeeper
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
Small Town Story
1953
as Michael Collins
Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now mana...
Noose for a Lady
1953
as Sergeant Frost
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
Pool of London
1951
as Captain of Dunbar (uncredited)
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Something in the City
1950
as Police Inspector
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by ...
Dark Secret
1949
as Mr. Lumley
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
Marry Me
1949
as Gazette Editor (uncredited)
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on...
Quartet
1948
as Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Love in Waiting
1948
as James Hartley Pepperfield
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
My Brother's Keeper
1948
as Constable
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan ...
Good-Time Girl
1948
as Police Sergeant
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with...
Daughter of Darkness
1948
as Constable
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 ...
The Upturned Glass
1947
as Policeman (uncredited)
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the wo...
The Man Within
1947
as Hilliard
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
The Root of All Evil
1947
as Landlord
Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Ch...
I'll Turn to You
1946
as Cecil Joy
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Quiet Weekend
1946
as Police Sergeant
Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
The Voice Within
1946
as McDonnell
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after...
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
1945
as T.P. O'Connor
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.
For You Alone
1945
as Police Constable Blundell
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an...
Waterloo Road
1945
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Love Story
1944
as Telephone Engineer
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there,...
Don't Take It to Heart
1944
as Landlord
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...
A Canterbury Tale
1944
as Ned Horton
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Give Us the Moon
1944
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general ...
Demobbed
1944
as James Bentley
Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
The Way Ahead
1944
as Sergeant Major (uncredited)
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to ...
Escape to Danger
1943
as Works Manager
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
I'll Walk Beside You
1943
as Hancock
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memor...
Undercover
1943
as A Yugoslav General
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope ...
Let the People Sing
1942
as Police Sergeant
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
They Flew Alone
1942
as Reporter
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 Day Will Dawn
1942
as German Trawler Captain
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat ...
Breach of Promise
1942
as Professor Beaver
Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
Back-Room Boy
1942
as Uncle
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 ...
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
as Station Master
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and Sout...
Hatter's Castle
1942
as Gibson
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embra...
Ships with Wings
1941
as Surgeon Comdr.
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Gre...
The Ghost Train
1941
as Inspector
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is s...
Gasbags
1941
as German General
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...
Spare a Copper
1940
as Brewster
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destructi...
The Case of the Frightened Lady
1940
as Det. Inspector Tanner
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
A Window in London
1940
as Manager
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 magic...
The Proud Valley
1940
as Mr. Lewis
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
They Came by Night
1940
as Inspector Metcalfe
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Now You're Talking
1940
as Fred Perkins
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets sli...
Meet Maxwell Archer
1940
as Insp. Cornell
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Young Man's Fancy
1939
as Park Constable (uncredited)
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
The Four Just Men
1939
as Inspector Falmouth
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sa...
Q Planes
1939
as Mr. Barrett
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...
They Drive by Night
1938
as Detective (Uncredited)
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly ...
The Gaunt Stranger
1938
as Police Station Sergeant
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ring...
Convict 99
1938
as Patrolman
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi...
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
1938
as Bert Stevens, club porter
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
The Rat
1937
as Pierre Verdier
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "r...
Young and Innocent
1937
as Det. Sgt. Miller
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to ...
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937
as Chief of Police
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but noth...
Doctor Syn
1937
as Mipps the Coffin Maker
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
The Compulsory Wife
1937
as Mr. Thackery
“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends. The hosts are delayed and so the guests remain u...
The Vulture
1937
as Spicer
An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
The Wife of General Ling
1937
as Police Commissioner
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chines...
Dusty Ermine
1936
as Police constable
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his wor...
Windbag the Sailor
1936
as Officer on Yacht
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc...
Rembrandt
1936
as Church Warden (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...
Everything Is Thunder
1936
as Webber
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Educated Evans
1936
as Joe Markham
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
as Det. Insp. Mallory
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and h...
Prison Breaker
1936
as Goldring
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds hi...
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935
as Pat O'Connor
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Crime Unlimited
1935
as Detective Inspector Cardby
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
Me and Marlborough
1935
as Harley
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Drake of England
1935
as Tom Moore
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's ...
Brown on Resolution
1935
as William Brown
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...
Emil and the Detectives
1935
as PC
Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first...
No Escape
1934
as Inspector Matheson
“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
My Song for You
1934
as Otto Newberg
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get h...
The Silver Spoon
1934
as Inspector Innes
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
The Fire Raisers
1934
as Sonners
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ....
Crime on the Hill
1933
as Insp. Wolf
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man'...
I Was a Spy
1933
as Captain Reichman
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte...
F.P.1
1933
as Lubin
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in t...
Little Fella
1933
as Detective
The Ghost Camera
1933
as Police Detective
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a pa...
The Lodger
1932
as Commissioner
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
A Gentleman of Paris
1931
as M. Duval
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought befor...
Dreyfus
1931
as Émile Zola
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...
Bracelets
1931
as Director
A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them ...
Thread o' Scarlet
1930
as Butters
'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)
The W Plan
1930
as Ulrich Muller
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intel...