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Complete Filmography

Delayed Action
1954
Director
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they co...

Dangerous Cargo
1954
Director
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shi...

The Blue Parrot
1953
Director
'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland ...

Alf's Baby
1953
Producer
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.

Those People Next Door
1953
Director
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the B...

Old Mother Riley, Headmistress
1950
Director, Writer
The 13th film in the Old Mother Riley series.

Old Mother Riley's New Venture
1949
Director
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.

While I Live
1947
Director, Writer
In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to ...

Green Fingers
1947
Director
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...

Appointment with Crime
1946
Director, Writer
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
Director, Writer
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Meet Sexton Blake
1945
Director, Writer
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
Director
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...

Candles at Nine
1944
Director, Screenplay
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has...

Headline
1943
Director
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

The Dark Tower
1943
Director
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

This Was Paris
1942
Director
British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

The Spell of Amy Nugent
1941
Director
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.

A Royal Divorce
1938
Assistant Director
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

Command Performance
1937
Assistant Director
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Stre...
The King of Paris
1934
Assistant Director
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...
My Lucky Star
1933
Director
'Shopgirl posing as film star loves porter posing as artist.' (British Film Catalogue)

Three Men in a Boat
1933
Adaptation
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on th...

Dreyfus
1931
Editor, Assistant Director
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...

Two Worlds
1930
as Corporal
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Atlantic
1929
Assistant Director
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....

The Informer
1929
Assistant Director
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.