1879-08-11 (146 years old)
Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent e...
A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title....
Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to...
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by h...
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst...
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an en...
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that t...
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song....
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly fail...
A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing anothe...
'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)...
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi s...
This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a l...
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern...
When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sen...
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting ...
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of...
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. ...
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During t...
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of mastermindin...
