Acting
Manning Whiley
Born January 23, 1915 · Hampstead, London, England, UK
Died January 29, 1975 · aged 60
No biography available.
Known For
Sailors Three · 1940Sailors Three
★ 7.61940
MovieComedyWar
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
"Pimpernel" Smith · 1941"Pimpernel" Smith
★ 7.11941
MovieAdventureDrama
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Contraband · 1940Contraband
★ 7.11940
MovieThrillerWar
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
The Shop at Sly Corner · 1947The Shop at Sly Corner
★ 6.61947
MovieDramaCrime
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
The Four Just Men · 1939The Four Just Men
★ 6.71939
MovieThrillerMystery
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
The Seventh Veil · 1945The Seventh Veil
★ 6.61945
MovieMusicDrama
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Design for Murder · 1939Design for Murder
★ 6.41939
MovieCrime
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, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Uncle Silas · 1947Uncle Silas
★ 5.91947
MovieDramaHorror
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Contraband · 1940Contraband
★ 7.11940
MovieThrillerWar
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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