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Acting
Percy Walsh
Born April 24, 1888
Died January 19, 1952 · aged 63
No biography available.
Known For
Dick Barton at Bay · 1950Dick Barton at Bay
★ 4.31950
MovieAdventureCrime
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
The Man Who Knew Too Much · 1934The Man Who Knew Too Much
★ 6.51934
MovieThrillerMystery
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Brown on Resolution · 1935Brown on Resolution
★ 6.31935
MovieActionWar
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
Train of Events · 1949Train of Events
★ 6.31949
MovieDramaComedy
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Breach of Promise · 1942Breach of Promise
★ 10.01942
MovieRomance
Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
"Pimpernel" Smith · 1941"Pimpernel" Smith
★ 7.31941
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.
One Night with You · 1948One Night with You
★ 7.31948
MovieComedyMusic
Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
Admirals All · 1935Admirals All
★ 8.01935
MovieComedy
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
Movies
Dick Barton at Bay · 1950Dick Barton at Bay
★ 4.31950
MovieAdventureCrime
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
The Man Who Knew Too Much · 1934The Man Who Knew Too Much
★ 6.51934
MovieThrillerMystery
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Brown on Resolution · 1935Brown on Resolution
★ 6.31935
MovieActionWar
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
Train of Events · 1949Train of Events
★ 6.31949
MovieDramaComedy
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Breach of Promise · 1942Breach of Promise
★ 10.01942
MovieRomance
Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.
"Pimpernel" Smith · 1941"Pimpernel" Smith
★ 7.31941
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.
One Night with You · 1948One Night with You
★ 7.31948
MovieComedyMusic
Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
Admirals All · 1935Admirals All
★ 8.01935
MovieComedy
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
Scott of the Antarctic · 1948Scott of the Antarctic
★ 7.21948
MovieAdventureDrama
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Oh, Mr. Porter! · 1937Oh, Mr. Porter!
★ 7.01937
MovieComedy
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
They Met in the Dark · 1943They Met in the Dark
★ 6.41943
MovieMysteryRomance
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 martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Windbag the Sailor · 1936Windbag the Sailor
★ 7.51936
MovieComedy
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
I Live in Grosvenor Square · 1945I Live in Grosvenor Square
★ 7.31945
MovieComedyDrama
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
The Adventures of Tartu · 1943The Adventures of Tartu
★ 6.21943
MovieRomanceWar
British Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. Tartu makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory of its manufacturing.
Secret Mission · 1942Secret Mission
★ 4.51942
MovieDramaWar
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Fame Is the Spur · 1947Fame Is the Spur
★ 7.11947
MovieDrama
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Dark Journey · 1937Dark Journey
★ 6.41937
MovieThrillerWar
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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 Guinea Pig · 1948The Guinea Pig
★ 7.21948
MovieDrama
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 together.
Old Bill and Son · 1941Old Bill and Son
★ 6.61941
MovieComedyWar
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Traitor Spy · 1939Traitor Spy
★ 4.31939
MovieMystery
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Death Drives Through · 1935Death Drives Through
★ 5.71935
MovieDrama
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
Let George Do It! · 1940Let George Do It!
★ 6.21940
MovieComedyMusic
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Stop Press Girl · 1949Stop Press Girl
★ 5.91949
MovieComedy
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.