Eliot Makeham
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1882-12-22
Geburtsort: Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK
Auch bekannt als:
The Crimson Pirate
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.09.27Popularität : 15.678
The Roof
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.01.01Popularität : 2.167
Children of Chance
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.10.29Popularität : 0.376
Night Train to Munich
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.08.31Popularität : 6.549
East of Ludgate Hill
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.12.23Popularität : 0.505
Forbidden
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.02.28Popularität : 2.554
The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.09.25Popularität : 1.109
Uncensored
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.24Popularität : 1.496
Darts Are Trumps
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.03.01Popularität : 0.88
Racing Romance
Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.09.10Popularität : 0.354
Green Grow the Rushes
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.11.06Popularität : 0.997
Rome Express
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.10.31Popularität : 2.803
Inspector Hornleigh
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.07Popularität : 0.767
Doctor in the House
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.03.23Popularität : 5.272
I Lived with You
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...
Veröffentlichung : 1933.06.13Popularität : 0.675
The Common Touch
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.11.15Popularität : 1.397
Jassy
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.08.13Popularität : 2.986
Head Over Heels
Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.02.12Popularität : 1.24
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.05.28Popularität : 2.276
Vessel of Wrath
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.03.04Popularität : 1.514
Strange Stories
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.01.01Popularität : 1.999
Give Us the Moon
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.07.31Popularität : 1.079
Weddings Are Wonderful
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.04Popularität : 0.853
Candles at Nine
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.01.01Popularität : 0.792
The Shop at Sly Corner
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.03.10Popularität : 2.446
Calling the Tune
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.06.30Popularität : 2.342
The Halfway House
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.04.02Popularität : 6.31
Food for Thought
In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.01.01Popularität : 0.877
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.01Popularität : 1.999
The Mill on the Floss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.09Popularität : 1.262
The Last Journey
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.10.01Popularität : 0.778
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.12.13Popularität : 0.881
Her Last Affaire
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.10.21Popularität : 0.731
A Canterbury Tale
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.08.21Popularität : 7.291
The Four Just Men
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.06.01Popularität : 2.597
Daybreak
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.05.18Popularität : 1.892
Just William
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.07.20Popularität : 1.628
The Citadel
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.29Popularität : 5.572
It's in the Air
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.11.01Popularität : 1.676
Dark Journey
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.07.02Popularität : 6.976
Take My Tip
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.01Popularität : 0.463
Scarlet Thread
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
Veröffentlichung : 1951.05.01Popularität : 2.401
The Lost Chord
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Veröffentlichung : 1933.04.07Popularität : 0.33
A Window in London
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.06.15Popularität : 0.893
Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.11.02Popularität : 1.647
Spare a Copper
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.12.02Popularität : 1.619
Busman's Honeymoon
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.07.22Popularität : 2.033
Someone at the Door
When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.09.28Popularität : 1.152
Murder at the Windmill
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.06.06Popularität : 0.969
Suspected Person
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.06.01Popularität : 1.39
Tomorrow We Live
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.10.06Popularität : 0.925
Lorna Doone
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.12.09Popularität : 0.903
Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.05Popularität : 1.242
Return to Yesterday
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.03.09Popularität : 1.613
A Star Fell from Heaven
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.06.08Popularität : 0.456
Unfinished Symphony
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.08.23Popularität : 0.632
They Flew Alone
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.06.29Popularität : 0.997
The Yellow Balloon
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.02.10Popularität : 2.62
Bell-Bottom George
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.02.07Popularität : 0.746
Born That Way
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.07.29Popularität : 0.616
The Brown Wallet
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.07.20Popularität : 0.42
Once in a New Moon
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.01.01Popularität : 0.872
Trio
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.10.10Popularität : 3.024
Spy for a Day
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.04.26Popularität : 0.588
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.02.25Popularität : 4.129
What Men Live By
A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.09.01Popularität : 1.756
The Million Pound Note
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.01.07Popularität : 9.526
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.11.28Popularität : 22.584
Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.02.01Popularität : 1.304
Madonna of the Seven Moons
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.22Popularität : 5.772
The Weak and the Wicked
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....
Veröffentlichung : 1954.02.02Popularität : 2.837
Champagne Charlie
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.08.25Popularität : 2.805
Peg of Old Drury
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.08.27Popularität : 0.952
Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...
Veröffentlichung : 1956.09.04Popularität : 1.881
All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....
Veröffentlichung : 1940.05.31Popularität : 0.262
Frieda
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.06.19Popularität : 3.822
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.07.30Popularität : 0.595
Anything to Declare?
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.12.02Popularität : 0.914
So Evil My Love
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.08.02Popularität : 2.75
Perfect Strangers
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.10.15Popularität : 6.083
No Room at the Inn
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.11.22Popularität : 1.691
The Magic Bow
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.09.20Popularität : 3.808
Yellow Canary
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.12.13Popularität : 2.706
The Rainbow Jacket
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.05.27Popularität : 2.597
Meet Mr. Lucifer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.11.30Popularität : 1.914
Friday the Thirteenth
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...
Veröffentlichung : 1933.11.01Popularität : 1.597
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.03.12Popularität : 4.22
Love in Waiting
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.10.11Popularität : 1.222
Decameron Nights
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.01.13Popularität : 2.594