Norman MacOwan

Norman MacOwan

Birthday: 1877-01-02

Place of Birth: St. Andrews, Scotland, UK

Biography: Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer. He started his career in the theater in 1903, and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included: The Blue Lagoon (1921), The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), and Glorious Morning (1938). MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), Kidnapped (1960), and The City of the Dead (1960). He was married to Violet [Ellen] Stephenson (actress). He died on December 31, 1961 in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Movies

Tread Softly Stranger
Tread Softly Stranger

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend p...

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Kidnapped
Kidnapped

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventure...

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Valley of the Eagles
Valley of the Eagles

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, ...

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The Dark Light
The Dark Light

The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find ou...

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Action of the Tiger
Action of the Tiger

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble ...

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Help Yourself
Help Yourself

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a less...

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Castle in the Air
Castle in the Air

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He d...

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Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...

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X: The Unknown
X: The Unknown

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and pro...

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Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore!

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Polit...

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Where There's a Will
Where There's a Will

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London ...

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Footsteps in the Fog
Footsteps in the Fog

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed ...

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Heart of a Child
Heart of a Child

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the l...

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The City of the Dead
The City of the Dead

In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the...

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Laxdale Hall
Laxdale Hall

A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the resid...

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The Battle of the Sexes
The Battle of the Sexes

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their exp...

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The Boy and the Bridge
The Boy and the Bridge

A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Brid...

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