Donald Calthrop
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1888-04-11
Locus Natus: London, England, UK
Et ut: Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop
Blackmail
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...
release : 1929.07.28popularis : 6.295
The Man Who Changed His Mind
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks...
release : 1936.09.11popularis : 5.038
We Take Off Our Hats
Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.
release : 1930.11.04popularis : 1.129
Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...
release : 1937.03.05popularis : 3.192
Murder!
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is...
release : 1930.07.31popularis : 7.825
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...
release : 1935.11.26popularis : 5.753
Café Colette
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
release : 1937.01.01popularis : 0.868
Number Seventeen
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
release : 1932.07.18popularis : 7.496
Early to Bed
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their...
release : 1933.08.08popularis : 0.538
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
Timed to bolster public morale at the end of the Great War, Maurice Elvey’s biopic of Nelson frequently steps out of its period setting to give...
release : 1918.01.01popularis : 0.902
The Phantom Light
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the...
release : 1935.08.05popularis : 1.68
Rome Express
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
release : 1932.10.31popularis : 2.111
Industrial Britain
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...
release : 1931.12.31popularis : 2.453
I Was A Spy
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...
release : 1933.09.04popularis : 1.558
Cape Forlorn
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...
release : 1931.01.08popularis : 0.63
Nelson
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
release : 1918.01.02popularis : 0.677
F.P.1
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in...
release : 1933.04.02popularis : 0.814
Me and Marlborough
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
release : 1935.07.22popularis : 1.608
The Ghost Train
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...
release : 1931.09.22popularis : 0.752
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...
release : 1940.07.12popularis : 2.303
Up the Poll
A bibulous election candidate makes a speech.
release : 1929.07.01popularis : 0.741
Loose Ends
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
release : 1930.05.22popularis : 0.844
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 0.819
Band Waggon
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 2.5
The Man Behind the Mask
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...
release : 1936.08.23popularis : 1.763
Elstree Calling
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
release : 1930.02.06popularis : 3.193
Shooting Stars
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian...
release : 1928.02.06popularis : 2.246
The Divine Spark
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
release : 1935.06.01popularis : 0.907
Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...
release : 1941.05.14popularis : 2.154
The Night Porter
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests...
release : 1930.03.25popularis : 1.331
All Riot on the Western Front
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
release : 1930.02.01popularis : 0.634
Almost a Honeymoon
An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just...
release : 1930.09.19popularis : 0.49
The Bells
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's...
release : 1931.10.09popularis : 1.18
Spanish Eyes
A musical directed by G.B. Samuelson.
release : 1930.08.29popularis : 1.13
Song of Soho
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
release : 1930.03.14popularis : 1.641
Two Worlds
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
release : 1930.07.28popularis : 0.328
Potiphar's Wife
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...
release : 1931.03.28popularis : 1.55
Many Waters
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
release : 1931.11.01popularis : 1.697
Fires of Fate
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
release : 1932.09.06popularis : 2.032
Uneasy Virtue
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
release : 1931.02.05popularis : 0.854
This Acting Business
A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
release : 1933.12.19popularis : 0.599
Money for Nothing
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker...
release : 1932.01.20popularis : 0.647
Atlantic
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the...
release : 1929.11.15popularis : 2.995
The Clue of the New Pin
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
release : 1929.03.01popularis : 0.809
Broken Blossoms
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
release : 1936.05.20popularis : 3.122
Love from a Stranger
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming...
release : 1937.04.18popularis : 1.351
Thunder in the City
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 3.867
Man of the Moment
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
release : 1935.09.01popularis : 4.434
Masks and Faces
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
release : 1917.03.01popularis : 0.951
Red Ensign
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...
release : 1934.06.17popularis : 4.431
The Clairvoyant
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
release : 1935.06.07popularis : 2.705
Sorrell and Son
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a...
release : 1934.03.05popularis : 0.676
Star Impersonations
'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from recent films; the audience is invited to compete...
release : 1930.10.01popularis : 0.9
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...
release : 1933.11.01popularis : 2.404