Evan Thomas
Birthday: 1891-02-17
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Biography: From Wikipedia Evan Thomas, also known as Peter Evan Thomas was a Canadian-born British character actor, whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. He began his career in England, in Lady Windermere's Fan, written by Oscar Wilde. Born Elystan Owen Evan Thomas in Vancouver, he appeared in silent films in Great Britain. Starting in 1930, he worked in both Hollywood and England beginning in 1930, before returning permanently to the British film industry after 1946. Over his fifty-year career, he would appear in dozens of films, usually in small roles, although he did have several featured performances, as in 1928's Warned Off, and 1935's Lend Me Your Husband.
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard an...
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The Girl from Maxim's
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904....
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Lend Me Your Husband
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital far...
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
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O.H.M.S.
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The Blonde from Singapore
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For Valour
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The Little Princess
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Drums of Fu Manchu
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a...
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland...
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Wisp o' the Woods
A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother....
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British Intelligence
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the...
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North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave...
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Inside the Lines
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Ask Beccles
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft....
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My Name Is Julia Ross
Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, sh...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts ...
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible....
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbi...
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Women Who Play
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate sche...
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Tin Gods
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Lord Jeff
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Tomorrow Is Forever
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If I Were King
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He...
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Frenchman's Creek
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Kitty
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gai...
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Children Galore
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