Syd Crossley

Syd Crossley

Birthday: 1885-11-17

Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK

Biography: No biography available.

Movies

Pearls Bring Tears
Pearls Bring Tears

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for th...

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The Golden Web
The Golden Web

After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuabl...

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Keep Smiling
Keep Smiling

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life pre...

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The Fatal Warning
The Fatal Warning

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughte...

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The Cowboy Kid
The Cowboy Kid

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughte...

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One Hour Married
One Hour Married

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband....

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Loud Soup
Loud Soup

Loud Soup is a comedy short...

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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three ye...

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We're Going to Be Rich
We're Going to Be Rich

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa...

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The Man from Chicago
The Man from Chicago

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was relea...

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The Younger Generation
The Younger Generation

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his r...

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Perfect Understanding
Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...

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Boys Will Be Girls
Boys Will Be Girls

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years...

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Save a Little Sunshine
Save a Little Sunshine

Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money fo...

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Over the Garden Wall
Over the Garden Wall

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an en...

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The Circus Kid
The Circus Kid

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Ci...

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Lucky Jade
Lucky Jade

Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Gue...

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Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars....

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Penny Paradise
Penny Paradise

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. Ho...

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Honeymoon for Three
Honeymoon for Three

In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young Fren...

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For the Love of Mike
For the Love of Mike

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by h...

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The Hate Ship
The Hate Ship

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notoriou...

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The Squeaker
The Squeaker

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief w...

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Come on George!
Come on George!

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious r...

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Feather Your Nest
Feather Your Nest

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song....

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Queen of Hearts
Queen of Hearts

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend...

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The Middle Watch
The Middle Watch

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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Here's George
Here's George

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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The King's Cup
The King's Cup

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British ...

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Meet My Sister
Meet My Sister

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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The Man Behind the Mask
The Man Behind the Mask

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything...

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Cheer Up
Cheer Up

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musica...

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Everything Is Rhythm
Everything Is Rhythm

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a ...

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You Made Me Love You
You Made Me Love You

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter wil...

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Those Were the Days
Those Were the Days

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern...

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Mama Behave
Mama Behave

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to imper...

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The Bermondsey Kid
The Bermondsey Kid

A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend....

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Suspense
Suspense

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the German...

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Sensation
Sensation

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more taw...

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Victoria the Great
Victoria the Great

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar...

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That Certain Thing
That Certain Thing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and sta...

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Sweet Devil
Sweet Devil

Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is se...

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The Dark Stairway
The Dark Stairway

“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospi...

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It's a Bet
It's a Bet

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In ...

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His Lordship Goes to Press
His Lordship Goes to Press

An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity t...

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Old Spanish Customers
Old Spanish Customers

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!...

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The Last Coupon
The Last Coupon

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!...

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The Umbrella
The Umbrella

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle....

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Meet Maxwell Archer
Meet Maxwell Archer

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder....

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The Musical Beauty Shop
The Musical Beauty Shop

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret....

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Just for a Song
Just for a Song

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act....

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Letting in the Sunshine
Letting in the Sunshine

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang o...

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The Flying Fool
The Flying Fool

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret ag...

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Men Like These
Men Like These

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in...

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High Society
High Society

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins...

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The Mayor's Nest
The Mayor's Nest

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues....

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Atlantic
Atlantic

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and s...

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Lucky Ladies
Lucky Ladies

Some sisters inherit a large sum of money....

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Old Mother Riley
Old Mother Riley

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kit...

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A Perfect Gentleman
A Perfect Gentleman

Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwi...

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The Deputy Drummer
The Deputy Drummer

Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working u...

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Cotton Queen
Cotton Queen

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romanti...

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One Good Turn
One Good Turn

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving t...

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The Gorilla
The Gorilla

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders....

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Perfect Understanding
Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...

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The Man in the Mirror
The Man in the Mirror

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and b...

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Public Nuisance No. 1
Public Nuisance No. 1

Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the Sou...

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Dandy Dick
Dandy Dick

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, wi...

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The Blood Ship
The Blood Ship

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is capta...

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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Old Mother Riley's Circus

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success....

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Give Her a Ring
Give Her a Ring

A telephonist falls for her employer....

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Leave It to Me
Leave It to Me

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a ne...

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Two's Company
Two's Company

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire business...

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Everything Happens to Me
Everything Happens to Me

A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election....

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The Return of Carol Deane
The Return of Carol Deane

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Into No Man's Land
Into No Man's Land

A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police aft...

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Let the People Sing
Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill...

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