Peter Gawthorne
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.026 |
Birthday | 1884-08-31 |
Place of Birth | Queen's County, Ireland |
Also Known As |
1939
Dead Men Are Dangerous
4/3
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the m...
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
1936
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
6.8/25
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1935
Crime Unlimited
5.8/6
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
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Crime Unlimited
1939
Ask a Policeman
7.429/21
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wa...
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Ask a Policeman
1937
Good Morning, Boys!
6.8/9
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast...
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Good Morning, Boys!
1938
Convict 99
6.8/11
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi...
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Convict 99
1939
Where's That Fire
7/10
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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Where's That Fire
1954
Tale of Three Women
0/0
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...
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Tale of Three Women
1935
Man of the Moment
5/1
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
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Man of the Moment
1952
Paul Temple Returns
5.6/4
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the vic...
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Paul Temple Returns
1933
Perfect Understanding
6.1/7
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds hi...
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Perfect Understanding
1941
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
6.9/9
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an...
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1942
Let the People Sing
6.3/5
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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Let the People Sing
1939
Flying Fifty-Five
7.6/4
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 at. His name an...
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Flying Fifty-Five
1934
Dirty Work
0/0
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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Dirty Work
1929
His Glorious Night
0/0
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry of...
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His Glorious Night
1935
Me and Marlborough
4.5/2
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Me and Marlborough
1940
Three Silent Men
5.2/2
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of t...
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Three Silent Men
1929
Sunny Side Up
7.273/11
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long I...
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Sunny Side Up
1937
Brief Ecstasy
6.8/5
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
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Brief Ecstasy
1934
The Camels Are Coming
0/0
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help br...
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The Camels Are Coming
1937
Gangway
7/1
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Gangway
1932
Jack's the Boy
3/1
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...
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Jack's the Boy
1939
Inspector Hornleigh
7.3/5
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon...
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Inspector Hornleigh
1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
7.374/111
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1937
Jericho
5.8/5
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
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Jericho
1936
Pot Luck
0/0
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stol...
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Pot Luck
1936
The Man Behind the Mask
4.8/5
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and h...
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The Man Behind the Mask
1940
Band Waggon
5/5
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
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Band Waggon
1930
Temple Tower
0/0
The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog Drumm...
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Temple Tower
1950
Soho Conspiracy
3.5/2
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is sa...
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Soho Conspiracy
1933
The House of Trent
0/0
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The House of Trent
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.676/522
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1930
Those Three French Girls
4/5
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
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Those Three French Girls
1931
The Man Who Came Back
3.5/4
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable ma...
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The Man Who Came Back
1935
The Crouching Beast
0/0
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pas...
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The Crouching Beast
1937
Return of a Stranger
5.5/2
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Marti...
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Return of a Stranger
1934
The Iron Duke
0/0
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Iron Duke
1933
Leave It to Smith
0/0
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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Leave It to Smith
1941
'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1/24
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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'Pimpernel' Smith
1938
Easy Riches
0/0
A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival b...
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Easy Riches
1937
Father Steps Out
5/1
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father...
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Father Steps Out
1941
Gasbags
5.5/7
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by runnin...
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Gasbags
1941
I Thank You
7.4/5
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded whe...
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I Thank You
1940
Crook's Tour
5.7/13
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of G...
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Crook's Tour
1941
Love on the Dole
5.727/12
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally c...
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Love on the Dole
1941
Cottage to Let
6.5/18
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfe...
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Cottage to Let
1940
They Came by Night
5/2
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
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They Came by Night
1944
Bell-Bottom George
6/3
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mist...
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Bell-Bottom George
1929
One Hysterical Night
5/1
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are act...
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One Hysterical Night
1932
C.O.D.
0/0
A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....
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C.O.D.
1932
The Flag Lieutenant
0/0
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
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The Flag Lieutenant
1932
His Lordship
7/1
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperat...
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His Lordship
1932
The Lodger
5.2/11
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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The Lodger
1937
Under a Cloud
5/1
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....
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Under a Cloud
1936
Crime Over London
6/1
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Crime Over London
1939
Traitor Spy
4/5
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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Traitor Spy
1941
Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
5/1
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
1942
Much Too Shy
6.2/5
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold wit...
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Much Too Shy
1935
No Limit
6.5/8
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. Dur...
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No Limit
1936
Windbag the Sailor
7.7/8
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc...
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Windbag the Sailor
1934
Something Always Happens
6.2/4
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol station...
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Something Always Happens
1952
Salute the Toff
5.5/6
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Salute the Toff
1949
High Jinks in Society
0/0
After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.
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High Jinks in Society
1935
Stormy Weather
0/0
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continua...
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Stormy Weather
1942
They Flew Alone
6/3
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 aro...
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They Flew Alone
1934
My Old Dutch
0/0
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - wi...
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My Old Dutch
1954
Five Days
5.8/12
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
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Five Days
1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
5.3/10
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the...
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The Ticket of Leave Man
1931
Charlie Chan Carries On
6.5/2
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Ko...
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Charlie Chan Carries On
1939
Sword of Honour
0/0
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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Sword of Honour
1946
This Man Is Mine
0/0
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
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This Man Is Mine
1945
Murder in Reverse?
6/2
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an ol...
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