John Laurie
Birthday: 1897-03-24
Place of Birth: Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Biography: John Laurie was a noted Scottish stage, screen, and television actor.
Movies
The 39 Steps
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. F...
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The Four Feathers
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle....
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Dad's Army
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman...
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Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet ...
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Devil Girl from Mars
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has lande...
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the r...
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The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...
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The Reptile
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious pop...
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The Edge of the World
A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating t...
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As You Like It
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the atte...
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When sh...
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The Brothers
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited....
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a...
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Juno and the Paycock
In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses af...
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No Trace
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller....
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Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and sc...
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School for Secrets
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it...
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Dangerous Moonlight
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries...
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to ...
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Campbell's Kingdom
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom...
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The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with ...
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Bees on the Boat-Deck
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley....
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Rig 20
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of ...
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Painter and Poet No. 1
An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enl...
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Tread Softly
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a...
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Fanny by Gaslight
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father...
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Saturday Island
When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and...
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Strange Stories
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The ...
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention...
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Floodtide
David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building...
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The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the ...
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The Face of Scotland
The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people....
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Jassy
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued ...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose...
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The Lamp Still Burns
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II....
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Kidnapped
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventure...
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Laughter in Paradise
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can...
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The...
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Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, ...
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The Great Game
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach ...
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Jericho
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape....
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The Ware Case
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the ...
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Murder Reported
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found s...
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Siege of the Saxons
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the Kin...
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Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she ...
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Q Planes
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...
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Mine Own Executioner
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help....
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Justice Is a Woman
Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is ...
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Convoy
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America a...
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Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru...
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Return to the Edge of the World
Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot h...
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Laugh It Off
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his...
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Hobson's Choice
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll ...
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Medal for the General
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII....
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Eagle Rock
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork ...
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The Open Door
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill,...
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The Agitator
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mar...
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Sailors Three
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their m...
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The Black Knight
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the ha...
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The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'A...
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've...
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The New Lot
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is sh...
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The Windmill
The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she revea...
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested...
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Ships with Wings
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for...
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Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey an...
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East Meets West
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to brea...
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Love in Pawn
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pa...
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Born That Way
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand....
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Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugha...
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Read All About It
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing edito...
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Her Last Affaire
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation wi...
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Gaiety George
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard o...
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The Gentle Sex
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary...
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Ladies Who Do
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a f...
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Red Ensign
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in fi...
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Mister Ten Per Cent
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is ...
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a ...
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Madeleine
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man,...
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Rockets Galore
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the go...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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Don't Bother to Knock
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and ma...
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Johnny on the Run
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside...
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Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with...
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A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's ...
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Hobson's Choice
Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but un...
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Queen of Scots
A dramatised account of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, performed and broadcast live on Scottish T...
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Kelvin: Master of Measurement
Dramatised account of the achievements of Glasgow's William Thomson, Lord Kelvin....
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Thank You and Goodnight
Starring Spike Milligan, John Laurie, and Mike Harding. This has music, comedy, tricks, and storytel...
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Mr Beamish Goes South
An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday....
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Happy Go Lovely
Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially...
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Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contrib...
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Potter of the Yard
Edward Potter, a meek clerk at Scotland Yard hunts down an escaped criminal....
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