John Laurie
Pazīstams: Acting
Dzimšanas diena: 1897-03-24
Dzimšanas vieta: Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Zināms arī kā: John Lawrie, John Paton Laurie
The 39 Steps
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...
Atlaidiet : 1935.06.06Popularitāte : 12.236
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new...
Atlaidiet : 1979.08.17Popularitāte : 5.877
The Four Feathers
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Atlaidiet : 1939.04.20Popularitāte : 8.033
Dad's Army
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and...
Atlaidiet : 1971.03.12Popularitāte : 8.764
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...
Atlaidiet : 1948.12.10Popularitāte : 16.424
Devil Girl from Mars
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to...
Atlaidiet : 1954.05.01Popularitāte : 7.983
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered...
Atlaidiet : 1943.07.26Popularitāte : 7.988
The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
Atlaidiet : 1944.06.09Popularitāte : 5.587
The Reptile
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by...
Atlaidiet : 1966.03.06Popularitāte : 12.046
The Edge of the World
A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Atlaidiet : 1937.09.10Popularitāte : 2.527
As You Like It
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Atlaidiet : 1936.09.02Popularitāte : 2.499
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's...
Atlaidiet : 1951.04.13Popularitāte : 10.436
The Brothers
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Atlaidiet : 1947.05.07Popularitāte : 1.795
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
Atlaidiet : 1971.05.18Popularitāte : 15.149
Juno and the Paycock
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life...
Atlaidiet : 1929.12.30Popularitāte : 6.772
No Trace
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
Atlaidiet : 1950.09.08Popularitāte : 2.625
Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...
Atlaidiet : 1947.10.08Popularitāte : 4.187
School for Secrets
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...
Atlaidiet : 1946.12.23Popularitāte : 2.599
Dangerous Moonlight
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his...
Atlaidiet : 1941.06.26Popularitāte : 3.758
I Know Where I'm Going!
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by...
Atlaidiet : 1945.11.16Popularitāte : 5.065
Campbell's Kingdom
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...
Atlaidiet : 1957.09.03Popularitāte : 5.17
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...
Atlaidiet : 1953.09.25Popularitāte : 5.621
Bees on the Boat-Deck
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
Atlaidiet : 1939.01.11Popularitāte : 1.792
Rig 20
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in...
Atlaidiet : 1952.01.01Popularitāte : 0.472
Painter and Poet No. 1
An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John...
Atlaidiet : 1970.01.01Popularitāte : 1.563
Tread Softly
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
Atlaidiet : 1952.12.01Popularitāte : 2.383
Fanny by Gaslight
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...
Atlaidiet : 1944.05.08Popularitāte : 3.156
Saturday Island
When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during World War II, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe (Linda Darnell) and Marine Michael Dugan...
Atlaidiet : 1952.03.20Popularitāte : 3.417
Strange Stories
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...
Atlaidiet : 1953.01.01Popularitāte : 2.062
Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
Atlaidiet : 1941.06.08Popularitāte : 2.345
Floodtide
David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building
Atlaidiet : 1949.03.15Popularitāte : 1.724
The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...
Atlaidiet : 1943.11.18Popularitāte : 2.822
The Face of Scotland
The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.
Atlaidiet : 1938.05.04Popularitāte : 1.735
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...
Atlaidiet : 1947.08.13Popularitāte : 2.551
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...
Atlaidiet : 1948.10.26Popularitāte : 2.176
The Lamp Still Burns
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Atlaidiet : 1943.11.29Popularitāte : 2.1
Kidnapped
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder,...
Atlaidiet : 1960.02.24Popularitāte : 3.235
Laughter in Paradise
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something...
Atlaidiet : 1951.06.01Popularitāte : 7.168
The Ghost of St. Michael's
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...
Atlaidiet : 1941.04.01Popularitāte : 2.89
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
Atlaidiet : 1955.12.13Popularitāte : 7.084
The Great Game
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...
Atlaidiet : 1953.01.01Popularitāte : 2.85
Jericho
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Atlaidiet : 1937.08.23Popularitāte : 4.365
The Ware Case
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Atlaidiet : 1938.12.02Popularitāte : 2.539
Murder Reported
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes...
Atlaidiet : 1957.04.28Popularitāte : 0.396
Siege of the Saxons
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the...
Atlaidiet : 1963.07.01Popularitāte : 6.069
Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Atlaidiet : 1936.09.01Popularitāte : 2.468
Q Planes
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...
Atlaidiet : 1939.02.21Popularitāte : 2.988
Mine Own Executioner
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Atlaidiet : 1947.11.22Popularitāte : 3.5
Steel
A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel.
Atlaidiet : 1945.07.12Popularitāte : 0.68
Justice Is a Woman
Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.
Atlaidiet : 1969.07.14Popularitāte : 3.193
Convoy
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Atlaidiet : 1940.09.28Popularitāte : 5.398
Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...
Atlaidiet : 1958.08.04Popularitāte : 1.878
Return to the Edge of the World
Essentially a re-release of Michael Powell's 'The Edge of the World (1937)' , but with colour 'bookends' in which director and actors revisit the...
Atlaidiet : 1978.10.02Popularitāte : 0.879
Laugh It Off
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...
Atlaidiet : 1940.03.09Popularitāte : 1.729
Hobson's Choice
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...
Atlaidiet : 1954.04.19Popularitāte : 17.841
Medal for the General
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Atlaidiet : 1944.11.06Popularitāte : 1.838
Eagle Rock
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
Atlaidiet : 1964.01.01Popularitāte : 3.157
The Open Door
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in...
Atlaidiet : 1966.02.19Popularitāte : 1.91
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...
Atlaidiet : 1945.01.24Popularitāte : 4.989
Sailors Three
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...
Atlaidiet : 1940.12.14Popularitāte : 3.526
The Black Knight
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of...
Atlaidiet : 1954.08.26Popularitāte : 4.638
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...
Atlaidiet : 2001.10.01Popularitāte : 3.989
Henry V
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Atlaidiet : 1944.11.24Popularitāte : 8.929
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...
Atlaidiet : 1937.01.05Popularitāte : 5.664
The New Lot
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Atlaidiet : 1943.01.01Popularitāte : 2.065
The Windmill
The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy....
Atlaidiet : 1937.09.13Popularitāte : 2.498
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in...
Atlaidiet : 1938.09.04Popularitāte : 0.812
Ships with Wings
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...
Atlaidiet : 1941.11.10Popularitāte : 2.685
Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...
Atlaidiet : 1950.07.19Popularitāte : 9.677
East Meets West
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...
Atlaidiet : 1936.08.26Popularitāte : 1.802
Love in Pawn
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...
Atlaidiet : 1953.11.23Popularitāte : 0.987
Born That Way
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.
Atlaidiet : 1936.07.29Popularitāte : 0.417
Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...
Atlaidiet : 1951.06.11Popularitāte : 1.582
Trio
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Atlaidiet : 1950.10.10Popularitāte : 4.914
Read All About It
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...
Atlaidiet : 1945.04.08Popularitāte : 1.214
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...
Atlaidiet : 1935.10.21Popularitāte : 0.438
Gaiety George
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...
Atlaidiet : 1946.07.15Popularitāte : 2.074
The Gentle Sex
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...
Atlaidiet : 1943.05.23Popularitāte : 1.301
Ladies Who Do
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save...
Atlaidiet : 1963.11.01Popularitāte : 3.534
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...
Atlaidiet : 1934.06.17Popularitāte : 2.667
Mister Ten Per Cent
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk...
Atlaidiet : 1967.01.01Popularitāte : 2.456
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of...
Atlaidiet : 1975.07.09Popularitāte : 4.689
Madeleine
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her...
Atlaidiet : 1950.02.16Popularitāte : 4.887
Rockets Galore
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
Atlaidiet : 1958.10.19Popularitāte : 5.631
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Atlaidiet : 1945.12.11Popularitāte : 6.771
Don't Bother to Knock
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address...
Atlaidiet : 1961.05.28Popularitāte : 2.877
Johnny on the Run
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...
Atlaidiet : 1953.06.01Popularitāte : 0.951
Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Atlaidiet : 1945.07.09Popularitāte : 1.058
A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Atlaidiet : 1938.09.21Popularitāte : 2.341