Basil Radford
Birthday: 1897-06-25
Place of Birth: Chester, England, UK
Biography: Arthur Basil Radford (25 June 1897 – 20 October 1952) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The Lady Vanishes
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel i...
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Young and Innocent
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins f...
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Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...
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Dead of Night
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his rec...
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Night Train to Munich
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent...
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A Southern Maid
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended...
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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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Millions Like Us
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...
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Crook's Tour
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves...
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Unpublished Story
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisa...
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Convict 99
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...
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The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...
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Quartet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...
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Girl in the News
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse i...
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It's Not Cricket
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The resul...
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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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Let's Be Famous
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entere...
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Stop Press Girl
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does...
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Chance of a Lifetime
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the ...
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A Girl in a Million
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is br...
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Jump for Glory
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner....
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The Flying Squad
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organi...
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Dishonour Bright
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears i...
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The Four Just Men
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of th...
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Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes unde...
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Just William
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city coun...
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Leave It to Smith
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness f...
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Climbing High
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model ...
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Foreign Affaires
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!...
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The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri...
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She Couldn't Say No
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it...
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Spies of the Air
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) ...
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Seven Days Leave
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her fri...
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The Girl Who Forgot
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is...
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Dear Octopus
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the f...
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Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and d...
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Broken Blossoms
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of ...
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Barnum Was Right
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate t...
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Ha'penny Breeze
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, frie...
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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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The Next of Kin
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the wal...
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There Goes the Bride
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and sus...
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The Captive Heart
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The ...
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White Corridors
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story ...
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Secret Journey
A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention...
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Room for Two
Robert Spencer is having an affair with his wife's friend Hilda. When a man approaches Hilda, procla...
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