Known For
Complete Filmography

It's a Great Day
1955
Writer
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the counc...

Black Jack
1950
Story
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.

Diamond City
1949
Writer
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".

Silent Dust
1949
Writer
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before...

The Magic Bow
1946
Writer
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert pl...

Caravan
1946
Screenplay
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable n...

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
Theatre Play
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkar...

They Were Sisters
1945
as Sir Hamish Nair
The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriag...

They Were Sisters
1945
Writer
The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriag...

Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945
Screenplay
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred a...

The Halfway House
1944
as Prison Governor
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness i...
The Night Invader
1943
Writer
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses oc...

The Gentle Sex
1943
as Captain (uncredited)
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, dri...

Talk About Jacqueline
1942
as Doctor in Hospital

Talk About Jacqueline
1942
Screenplay

The Day Will Dawn
1942
as Capt. Waverley
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 ...

Jeannie
1941
Screenplay
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

'Pimpernel' Smith
1941
as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...

'Pimpernel' Smith
1941
Scenario Writer
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...

Freedom Radio
1941
Story
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. H...
It Happened to One Man
1940
Theatre Play
A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

Dangerous Comment
1940
Writer
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a co...

Return to Yesterday
1940
Screenplay
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

The Spy in Black
1939
Scenario Writer
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Young Man's Fancy
1939
Writer
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

The Four Just Men
1939
as Mr Hastings
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...

The Four Just Men
1939
Writer
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...

The Ware Case
1938
Scenario Writer
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

A Yank at Oxford
1938
Writer
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

Dinner at the Ritz
1937
Scenario Writer, Dialogue, Screenplay
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

Non-Stop New York
1937
Screenplay
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

King Solomon's Mines
1937
Dialogue, Screenplay
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Man of the Moment
1935
Screenplay, Dialogue
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

Honours Easy
1935
Writer
Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the the...

The Night of the Party
1934
Dialogue, Theatre Play
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect,...

The Ghoul
1933
Writer
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlan...

Sleeping Car
1933
Dialogue
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she marrie...
The Silver Greyhound
1932
Writer
A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann

Illegal
1932
Dialogue, Screenplay
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money,...
Help Yourself
1932
Writer
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...

Murder on the Second Floor
1932
Dialogue, Adaptation
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
A Voice Said Goodnight
1932
Story, Screenplay
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Impromptu
1932
Writer

Honor of the Family
1931
Writer
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

I Like Your Nerve
1931
Writer
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt governmen...

Interference
1928
Theatre Play
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did no...
A South Sea Bubble
1928
Story
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

Out to Win
1923
Story
A tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.
Aunt Rachel
1920
Writer
A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
Faith
1919
Writer
The Bridal Chair
1919
Writer