Ronald Shiner
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1903-06-08
Geburtsort: London, England, UK
Auch bekannt als: Ronald Alfred Shiner
Limelight
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.05.29Popularität : 0.482
The Case of the Frightened Lady
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.09.28Popularität : 1.979
King Arthur Was a Gentleman
Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.12.28Popularität : 1.551
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 : 4.292
The Gang's All Here
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.04Popularität : 0.921
A Yank at Oxford
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.02.18Popularität : 4.681
Dry Rot
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
Veröffentlichung : 1956.10.31Popularität : 3.799
Innocents in Paris
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.07.22Popularität : 2.998
Let George Do It!
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.07.12Popularität : 1.258
The Night We Got the Bird
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
Veröffentlichung : 1960.11.03Popularität : 0.937
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.09.01Popularität : 2.15
Laughing Anne
Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.09.01Popularität : 1.052
Flying Fifty-Five
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.05.01Popularität : 0.986
Get Cracking
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.05.17Popularität : 1
George in Civvy Street
George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.07.07Popularität : 1.161
Girls at Sea
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill...
Veröffentlichung : 1958.10.01Popularität : 1.553
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.01Popularität : 3.222
The Navy Lark
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their...
Veröffentlichung : 1959.01.01Popularität : 0.731
Wild Boy
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.01.01Popularität : 0.631
St. Martin's Lane
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.18Popularität : 2.701
Aunt Clara
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.11.22Popularität : 0.989
London Melody
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.02.04Popularität : 0.919
Squibs
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.06.11Popularität : 0.549
Worm's Eye View
Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.
Veröffentlichung : 1951.04.01Popularität : 0.848
The Missing People
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.05.01Popularität : 0.579
Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.01Popularität : 2.082
Come on George!
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.12.01Popularität : 1.049
Keep It Clean
A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
Veröffentlichung : 1956.05.01Popularität : 0.634
Little Big Shot
Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.01.01Popularität : 0.341
Doctor's Orders
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
Veröffentlichung : 1934.11.01Popularität : 0.997
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 : 1.316
Old Bill and Son
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.03.01Popularität : 1.763
Excuse My Glove
A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.07.20Popularität : 0.5
Top of the Form
A con man hides out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.02.01Popularität : 0.504
The Balloon Goes Up
Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.12.01Popularität : 1.267
Carry on Admiral
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack...
Veröffentlichung : 1957.05.14Popularität : 2.975
Beauty and the Barge
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.02.07Popularität : 1.574
It's a Bet
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.02.01Popularität : 0.567
Bees in Paradise
Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.03.20Popularität : 0.622
Up to His Neck
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.01.01Popularität : 0.836
The Middle Watch
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon,...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.05.11Popularität : 0.386
Not Wanted on Voyage
The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated chief steward. Along for the...
Veröffentlichung : 1957.11.01Popularität : 0.482
The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.01.01Popularität : 3.734
Once a Thief
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.06.14Popularität : 1.236
Gentlemen's Agreement
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.01.01Popularität : 0.986
Operation Bullshine
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary...
Veröffentlichung : 1959.06.30Popularität : 2.925
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 : 2.166
Unpublished Story
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.10Popularität : 2.733
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.02.23Popularität : 1.039
My Learned Friend
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.10.25Popularität : 1.697
Miss London Ltd.
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers'...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.06.14Popularität : 1.305
I Live in Grosvenor Square
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.07.20Popularität : 2.128
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.12.11Popularität : 8.078
They Drive by Night
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.12.01Popularität : 2.515
Salvage with a Smile
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.01.01Popularität : 1.235
South American George
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.12.27Popularität : 1.113
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 : 1.63
Thursday's Child
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.03.24Popularität : 1.436
Sabotage at Sea
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.09.07Popularität : 0.887
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 : 1.565
The Man Within
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.05.19Popularität : 2.622
The Mind of Mr. Reeder
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.04Popularität : 0.945
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 : 2.562
Reluctant Heroes
This comedy is set in an army boot camp. It displays a drill sergeant who must somehow turn an inept group of recruits into real soldiers.
Veröffentlichung : 1952.02.11Popularität : 0.281