Hay Petrie
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.313 |
Birthday | 1895-07-16 |
Place of Birth | Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK |
Also Known As | David Hay Petrie, |
1933
The Wandering Jew
7.6/5
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His retur...
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The Wandering Jew
1934
The Queen's Affair
0/0
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Queen's Affair
1934
Colonel Blood
0/0
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Colonel Blood
1939
Jamaica Inn
6.1/211
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeep...
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Jamaica Inn
1949
The Queen of Spades
6.5/51
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fan...
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The Queen of Spades
1948
Noose
5/14
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...
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Noose
1940
Contraband
6.9/17
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...
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Contraband
1940
Crimes at the Dark House
5.6/13
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his iden...
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Crimes at the Dark House
1936
Forget Me Not
5.7/6
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she an...
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Forget Me Not
1936
The Conquest of the Air
4.2/4
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from anci...
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The Conquest of the Air
1935
Moscow Nights
5.2/3
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of fa...
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Moscow Nights
1946
The Voice Within
0/0
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after...
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The Voice Within
1942
Hard Steel
0/0
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Hard Steel
1945
For You Alone
0/0
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an...
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For You Alone
1935
Do Not Forget About Me
0/0
This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way thro...
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Do Not Forget About Me
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
7.1/261
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
1940
Pastor Hall
7.6/7
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...
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Pastor Hall
1939
Inquest
6/7
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to th...
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Inquest
1944
On Approval
6.9/14
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...
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On Approval
1931
Gipsy Blood
0/0
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s cl...
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Gipsy Blood
1941
Rush Hour
0/0
The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum...
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Rush Hour
1941
Freedom Radio
6.3/3
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. H...
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Freedom Radio
1934
The Old Curiosity Shop
5.3/3
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....
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The Old Curiosity Shop
1945
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
5.1/6
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
6.3/75
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
1944
A Canterbury Tale
6.9/111
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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A Canterbury Tale
1939
Q Planes
5.8/38
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 aircraf...
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Q Planes
1939
The Spy in Black
6.3/56
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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The Spy in Black
1939
The Four Feathers
6.9/87
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Four Feathers
1933
Crime on the Hill
6.5/1
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man'...
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Crime on the Hill
1933
Matinee Idol
5/1
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
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Matinee Idol
1935
Crimson Dynasty
5.3/3
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is bas...
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Crimson Dynasty
1933
Song of the Plough
0/0
'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
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Song of the Plough
1940
Convoy
5.4/14
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Convoy
1940
21 Days Together
6.1/26
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wa...
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21 Days Together
1940
Ten Days in Paris
7.5/4
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true b...
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Ten Days in Paris
1930
Night Birds
2/1
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the...
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Night Birds
1936
The House of the Spaniard
5.5/2
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t ad...
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The House of the Spaniard
1937
Knight Without Armour
5.6/15
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he pos...
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Knight Without Armour
1935
Invitation To The Waltz
0/0
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Invitation To The Waltz
1930
Suspense
0/0
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
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Suspense
1937
Secret Lives
6/5
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order t...
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Secret Lives
1937
The Two Frightened Ladies
0/0
Dramatised short about the advantages of gas appliances in the home, with music.
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The Two Frightened Ladies
1941
The Spell of Amy Nugent
5/3
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
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The Spell of Amy Nugent
1939
Design for Murder
5.8/4
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lur...
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Design for Murder
1935
I Give My Heart
0/0
The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actr...
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I Give My Heart
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
1941
Quiet Wedding
4.2/5
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Quiet Wedding
1941
Turned Out Nice Again
6.5/2
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and gettin...
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Turned Out Nice Again
1941
The Ghost of St. Michael's
6.6/10
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 g...
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
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
1934
Nell Gwyn
6.6/5
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent comp...
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Nell Gwyn
1946
Great Expectations
7.3/327
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman....
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Great Expectations
1933
The Lucky Number
4/2
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
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The Lucky Number
1931
Many Waters
0/0
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Many Waters
1948
The Monkey's Paw
5.8/9
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
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The Monkey's Paw
1940
Spy for a Day
0/0
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
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Spy for a Day
1948
The Guinea Pig
6.9/9
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes tog...
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The Guinea Pig
1948
The Fallen Idol
7.1/164
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...
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The Fallen Idol
1935
Peg of Old Drury
6.3/3
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Peg of Old Drury
1943
The Shipbuilders
6/1
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the Briti...
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The Shipbuilders
1935
The Ghost Goes West
6.5/32
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until...
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The Ghost Goes West
1943
They Met in the Dark
6.3/13
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court m...
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They Met in the Dark
1946
The Laughing Lady
7/1
A musical set during the French Revolution.
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The Laughing Lady
1942
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
6.4/36
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of...
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1946
Night Boat to Dublin
5.8/7
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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Night Boat to Dublin
1942
Sabotage at Sea
5/1
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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Sabotage at Sea
1946
Midnight Taxi
0/0
A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Savings.
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Midnight Taxi
1935
Blind Justice
0/0
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowar...
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Blind Justice
1936
Rembrandt
6.6/32
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt...
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Rembrandt
1938
Consider Your Verdict
0/0
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
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Consider Your Verdict
1936
Men of Yesterday
0/0
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
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