Acting

Forrester Harvey

Born June 26, 1884 · County Cork, Ireland

Died December 14, 1945 · aged 61

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Forrester Harvey (27 June 1884 – 14 December 1945) was an Irish film actor. From 1922 until his death year Harvey appeared in more than 115 films. He was credited for about two-thirds of his film appearances, but some of his roles were uncredited. The burly actor with a mustache mostly played comic supporting roles, often as an innkeeper. His best-known role…

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Rebecca

Rebecca · 1940

MovieMysteryRomance

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man · 1933

The Invisible Man

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver · 1942

MovieDramaRomance

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man · 1941

MovieHorrorDrama

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

MovieAdventureHistory

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Tarzan the Ape Man

Tarzan the Ape Man · 1932

Tarzan the Ape Man

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

MovieDramaHorror

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate · 1934

Tarzan and His Mate

MovieActionAdventure

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

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Rebecca

Rebecca · 1940

MovieMysteryRomance

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Chalcroft

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man · 1933

The Invisible Man

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

Herbert Hall

Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver · 1942

MovieDramaRomance

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Mr. Huggins (uncredited)

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man · 1941

MovieHorrorDrama

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

Twiddle

Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

MovieAdventureHistory

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Honesty Nutall

Tarzan the Ape Man

Tarzan the Ape Man · 1932

Tarzan the Ape Man

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.

Beamish

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

MovieDramaHorror

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Old Prouty

Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate · 1934

Tarzan and His Mate

MovieActionAdventure

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

Beamish

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns · 1940

The Invisible Man Returns

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Ben Jenkins

The Lodger

The Lodger · 1944

MovieThrillerMystery

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express · 1932

Shanghai Express

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Peiping Ticket Agent (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford · 1940

A Chump at Oxford

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Meredith

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · 1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

MovieDramaHistory

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Bit Part (uncredited)

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper · 1937

The Prince and the Pauper

MovieAdventureDrama

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

Meaty Man

China Seas

China Seas · 1935

MovieAdventureAction

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

Chief Steward Ted Gary (uncredited)

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil · 1934

The Painted Veil

MovieDramaRomance

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Waddington

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk · 1933

The Eagle and the Hawk

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Hogan

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day · 1933

MovieComedyDrama

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

Hotel Employee Oscar (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol · 1938

A Christmas Carol

MovieDramaFantasy

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Old Fezziwig

Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through · 1932

Smilin' Through

MovieDramaRomance

On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.

Orderly

Red Dust

Red Dust · 1932

MovieRomanceDrama

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.

Captain Limey

The Ring

The Ring · 1927

MovieDramaRomance

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.

The Promoter

Mysterious Mr. Moto

Mysterious Mr. Moto · 1938

Mysterious Mr. Moto

MovieMysteryThriller

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

George Higgins

This Above All

This Above All · 1942

MovieDramaRomance

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

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