Frederick Leister
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1885-12-01
Geburtsort: London, England, UK
Auch bekannt als:
We'll Meet Again
A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.01.18Popularität : 0.952
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
Escape
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.03.01Popularität : 3.66
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.07.28Popularität : 10.766
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 Captive Heart
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.04.29Popularität : 3.654
The Naked Edge
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the...
Veröffentlichung : 1961.06.28Popularität : 4.941
The End of the Affair
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.02.24Popularität : 4.328
Dangerous Exile
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and...
Veröffentlichung : 1957.12.12Popularität : 2.768
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
Souls in Conflict
An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.09.28Popularität : 0.182
O.H.M.S.
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.01Popularität : 1.568
The Show Goes On
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.03.31Popularität : 0.552
So Well Remembered
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.07.09Popularität : 1.048
The Rossiter Case
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.01.21Popularität : 0.9
Top Secret
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention....
Veröffentlichung : 1952.11.10Popularität : 1.798
Evensong
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.09.03Popularität : 1.16
The Prime Minister
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.03.04Popularität : 0.882
Left Right and Centre
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...
Veröffentlichung : 1959.06.23Popularität : 4.467
The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.05.16Popularität : 13.107
The Time of His Life
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.01.01Popularität : 1.822
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.28Popularität : 1.423
The Agitator
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.24Popularität : 4.58
On the Night of the Fire
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.10.26Popularität : 2.587
Nightbeat
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.12.22Popularität : 1.47
For Them That Trespass
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.04.21Popularität : 2.513
Rx Murder
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform...
Veröffentlichung : 1958.02.18Popularität : 1.536
The Outsider
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.01.30Popularität : 1.765
Bracelets
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1931.02.01Popularität : 0.609
Atlantic Ferry
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.09.06Popularität : 1.469
The Spell of Amy Nugent
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.05.10Popularität : 0.401
Around the World in Eighty Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...
Veröffentlichung : 1956.10.17Popularität : 19.059
The Iron Duke
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Veröffentlichung : 1934.11.30Popularität : 0.634
Sixty Glorious Years
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.11.18Popularität : 1.87
Down River
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
Veröffentlichung : 1931.05.08Popularität : 0.811
Dear Octopus
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.09.20Popularität : 0.886
The Hundred Pound Window
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.04.03Popularität : 0.315
One Exciting Night
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.12.04Popularität : 0.853
Boys in Brown
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.12.01Popularität : 1.606
Dreyfus
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...
Veröffentlichung : 1931.04.18Popularität : 0.445
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.11.01Popularität : 0.59
Quartet
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."
Veröffentlichung : 1948.10.26Popularität : 4.158
Footsteps in the Fog
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.09.14Popularität : 8.926
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.09.30Popularität : 3.088
The Gentle Sex
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.05.23Popularität : 3.316
Cone of Silence
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for...
Veröffentlichung : 1960.05.10Popularität : 3.748
King Solomon's Mines
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.06.17Popularität : 4.399
Before I Wake
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.02.10Popularität : 1.527
The Shipbuilders
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.12.15Popularität : 1.259
Dear Mr. Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.09.07Popularität : 1.436
The Next of Kin
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.06.15Popularität : 2.598
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.01.31Popularität : 3.335
Circumstantial Evidence
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.10.16Popularität : 0.344
Dinner at the Ritz
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.11.26Popularität : 1.013
Mrs. Fitzherbert
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.12.03Popularität : 1.201
All Over the Town
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.04.25Popularität : 1.851
Surprise Package
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
Veröffentlichung : 1960.09.29Popularität : 2.511
The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.09.21Popularität : 3.018