Harold Goodwin
Birthday: 1917-10-22
Place of Birth: Wombwell, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Harold Goodwin (October 22, 1917 – June 3, 2004 ) was an English actor. Primarily a character actor, he trained at RADA and started in repertory in Liverpool. By 1949, he appeared on the West End stage. Goodwin never lost his Barnsley accent, and tended to specialize in playing working-class men, such as cabbies, stewards, or non-commissioned officers.
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The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
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Wrong Number
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve ...
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The Man in the White Suit
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dir...
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I Can't See My Little Willie
When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge......
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Angels One Five
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front ...
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Die, Monster, Die!
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has di...
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Barnacle Bill
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...
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The Phantom of the Opera
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnappe...
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, A...
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The Crucible
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials....
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The Magnet
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero....
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital m...
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Green Grow the Rushes
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of A...
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The Traitors
The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from...
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The Harassed Hero
Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doc...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to b...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wif...
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A Fight to the Finish
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is ...
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Girls at Sea
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate t...
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The Last Page
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk....
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The Hi-Jackers
A self-employed lorry driver is determined to find the criminals responsible for hijacking him....
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Toff and Fingers
Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware....
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On the Fiddle
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chanc...
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Woman in Hiding
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in...
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All in Good Time
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub....
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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Magpie Lays an Egg
Fiddler tricks Magpie into swapping her stamp collection for a supposed penguin egg....
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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of S...
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Jabberwocky
After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventu...
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A Voyage Round My Father
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with ...
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You Lucky People!
Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an ...
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The Prince and the Showgirl
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign cou...
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The Last Man to Hang
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose....
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Sea Wife
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small...
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The Million Pound Note
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen wh...
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The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...
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The Ugly Duckling
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his i...
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The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
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The Comedy Man
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job...
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Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...
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The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki ...
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Sea of Sand
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...
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Some Will, Some Won't
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical jok...
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Dance Hall
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, ...
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Now and Forever
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her se...
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Never Back Losers
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-...
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above ...
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Operation Cupid
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a luc...
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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a pre...
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Crooks Anonymous
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as ...
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The Mummy
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally m...
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Appointment with Venus
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. ...
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The Ship That Died of Shame
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into bus...
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The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortuna...
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Quest for Love
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself ...
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The Gay Dog
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His...
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Hair of the Dog
Fred Tickle is commissionaire at a razor blade factory, and grows a beard after developing a shaving...
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The Bushbaby
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must ...
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Zarak Khan
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him....
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The Bulldog Breed
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After ...
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Number Six
An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for ...
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One Good Turn
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the or...
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The Square Peg
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c...
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The Captain's Table
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although...
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Carry On Admiral
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the oth...
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Three Men in a Boat
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misa...
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The Fast Lady
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father...
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