Acting
Richard Murdoch
Born April 6, 1907 · Keston, Kent, England, UK
Died October 9, 1990 · aged 83
Richard Bernard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club's performances. Murdoch's first appearance in cinema was as an uncredited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the "Television Follies", an early BBC Televis…
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Whoops Apocalypse · 1986Whoops Apocalypse
★ 5.71986
MovieComedy
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
The Magic Box · 1952The Magic Box
★ 6.51952
MovieDrama
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
I Thank You · 1941I Thank You
★ 7.31941
MovieComedy
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Lilli Marlene · 1950Lilli Marlene
★ 6.31950
MovieDrama
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Golden Arrow · 1949Golden Arrow
★ 7.01949
MovieComedy
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
The Ghost Train · 1941The Ghost Train
★ 6.11941
MovieComedyHorror
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
It Happened in Soho · 1948It Happened in Soho
★ 6.01948
MovieCrimeDrama
Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt · 1940Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
★ 5.61940
MovieComedy
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
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It Happened in Soho · 1948It Happened in Soho
★ 6.01948
MovieCrimeDrama
Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.
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