Harold Goodwin
Harold Goodwin was an English character actor, trained at RADA. He started in repertory in Liverpool. By 1949, he appeared on the West End stage. Goodwin never lost his Barnsley accent, and tended to specialize in playing working-class men, such as cabbies, stewards, or non-commissioned officers.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.932 |
Birthday | 1917-10-22 |
Place of Birth | Wombwell, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK |
Also Known As |
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.831/2023
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1951
The Man in the White Suit
6.815/176
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell...
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The Man in the White Suit
1965
Die, Monster, Die!
5.6/58
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation...
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Die, Monster, Die!
1952
Angels One Five
6/29
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
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Angels One Five
1957
Barnacle Bill
6.342/19
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Barnacle Bill
1962
The Phantom of the Opera
6.356/90
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...
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The Phantom of the Opera
1964
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
5.6/77
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedi...
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
1950
The Magnet
6.3/19
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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The Magnet
1951
Green Grow the Rushes
5.833/6
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 back...
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Green Grow the Rushes
1954
The Harassed Hero
6/1
Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any s...
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The Harassed Hero
1958
Girls at Sea
6/2
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 Ea...
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Girls at Sea
1950
The Happiest Days of Your Life
6.258/31
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The s...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
1963
The Hi-Jackers
7.1/7
A self-employed lorry driver is determined to find the criminals responsible for hijacking him.
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The Hi-Jackers
1961
On the Fiddle
6.4/4
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl...
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On the Fiddle
1964
All in Good Time
0/0
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
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All in Good Time
1962
The Longest Day
7.583/906
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1955
The Ladykillers
7.278/450
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia...
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The Ladykillers
1976
Magpie Lays an Egg
0/0
Fiddler tricks Magpie into swapping her stamp collection for a supposed penguin egg.
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Magpie Lays an Egg
1975
All Creatures Great and Small
6.568/22
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous...
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All Creatures Great and Small
1977
Jabberwocky
6.017/263
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. T...
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Jabberwocky
1984
A Voyage Round My Father
7.6/5
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals wit...
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A Voyage Round My Father
1955
You Lucky People
5.2/7
Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks...
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You Lucky People
1957
The Prince and the Showgirl
6.353/173
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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The Prince and the Showgirl
1956
The Last Man to Hang
5.5/4
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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The Last Man to Hang
1954
The Million Pound Note
6.7/54
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...
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The Million Pound Note
1957
Sea Wife
5.4/12
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army offic...
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Sea Wife
1953
The Cruel Sea
6.8/61
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea
1959
The Ugly Duckling
5.8/5
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrive...
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The Ugly Duckling
1955
The Dam Busters
6.8/132
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 S...
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The Dam Busters
1964
The Comedy Man
7.2/4
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit...
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The Comedy Man
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
6.8/97
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...
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Sink the Bismarck!
1981
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
0/0
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across th...
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The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
1958
Sea of Sand
6.4/18
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North A...
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Sea of Sand
1970
Some Will, Some Won't
6/3
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
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Some Will, Some Won't
1950
Dance Hall
4.6/5
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its st...
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Dance Hall
1956
Now and Forever
7/3
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...
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Now and Forever
1961
Never Back Losers
5/1
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes...
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Never Back Losers
1955
A Kid for Two Farthings
6.5/21
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tel...
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A Kid for Two Farthings
1960
Operation Cupid
5/1
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
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Operation Cupid
1981
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
0/0
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation...
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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
1962
Crooks Anonymous
6.3/21
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
1959
The Mummy
6.714/213
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries...
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The Mummy
1951
Appointment with Venus
5.1/7
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on t...
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Appointment with Venus
1955
The Ship That Died of Shame
6.9/9
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudab...
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The Ship That Died of Shame
1959
Wrong Number
0/0
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
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Wrong Number
1969
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
6.383/111
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum....
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1937
A Fight to the Finish
1/1
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his riva...
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A Fight to the Finish
1956
The Long Arm
7/17
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1970
I Can't See My Little Willie
0/0
When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...
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I Can't See My Little Willie
1980
The Crucible
1/1
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.
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The Crucible
1962
The Traitors
5.3/3
The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US mili...
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The Traitors
1968
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
6.083/7
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over th...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1952
The Last Page
5.674/23
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
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The Last Page
1950
Woman in Hiding
6.2/36
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if n...
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