Henry Kendall
Birthday: 1897-05-27
Place of Birth: Streatham Hill, London, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia Henry Kendall, (28 May 1897 – 9 June 1962) was an English stage and film actor, theatre director and an immaculately stylish revue artiste. Kendall was born in London in 1897 and educated at the City of London School. He made his first appearance on the stage in September 1914 at the Lyceum Theatre, playing a 'super' in Tommy Atkins. He had a distinguished war career, serving as a Captain in the Royal Air Force from 1916 to 1919, and on demobilisation was awarded the Royal Air Force Cross. He played the leading role of Reggie Ogden in the film The Shadow in 1933, and also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'bravest failure', Rich and Strange, US title East of Shanghai (1931).
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Rich and Strange
After receiving an advance inheritance, a bored London couple set off on a world cruise hoping to re...
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year ...
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The Shadow of the Cat
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wil...
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The Shadow
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black...
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The Voice of Merrill
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all o...
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The Ghost Camera
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to ...
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Take a Chance
Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance...
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This Week of Grace
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, sh...
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Twelve Good Men
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of th...
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Death on the Set
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters plac...
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Nothing Barred
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to t...
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Counsel's Opinion
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound....
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Great Stuff
A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man....
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29 Acacia Avenue
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban hous...
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The Girl in Possession
An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England....
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The Compulsory Wife
“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends...
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It’s Not Cricket
“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfis...
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Side Street Angel
“Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a jo...
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Death at Broadcasting House
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadca...
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The Butler's Dilemma
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant n...
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French Leave
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband,...
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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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Watch Beverly
A British diplomat becomes entangled with a ring of international criminals....
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School for Husbands
A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, a...
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Three Witnesses
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid....
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The Man Outside
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unm...
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Helter Skelter
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping....
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An Alligator Named Daisy
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger...
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King of the Ritz
While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest....
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Timbuctoo
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Lend Me Your Wife
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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