John Singer

John Singer

Birthday: 1923-12-04

Place of Birth: Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

Biography: John Harold Singer was an English actor. He began as a child actor, popular in the 1930s, and known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In later years he continued to act in numerous films, including In Which We Serve and The Cruel Sea. He died on 7 July 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His son, Steven Singer, became a TV scriptwriter. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Emil and the Detectives
Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publicatio...

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My Old Dutch
My Old Dutch

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the fam...

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Darts Are Trumps
Darts Are Trumps

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expe...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their ...

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It's Never Too Late to Mend
It's Never Too Late to Mend

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are ...

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Against the Tide
Against the Tide

A Cornish fishing village is struck by tragedy....

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Something Always Happens
Something Always Happens

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petr...

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Royal Cavalcade
Royal Cavalcade

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the firs...

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The Amateur Gentleman
The Amateur Gentleman

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at...

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Jack's the Boy
Jack's the Boy

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is B...

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Tudor Rose
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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Facing The Music
Facing The Music

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable y...

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Q Planes
Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...

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High Treason
High Treason

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States...

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The Pride of the Force
The Pride of the Force

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popula...

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Love at Second Sight
Love at Second Sight

It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trai...

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Front Line Kids
Front Line Kids

Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating....

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What a Man!
What a Man!

Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of of...

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In Which We Serve
In Which We Serve

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...

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The Cruel Sea
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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Somewhere in Camp
Somewhere in Camp

Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail - ...

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The Black Hand Gang
The Black Hand Gang

Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain....

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Fly Away Peter
Fly Away Peter

Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a ...

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Love on the Spot
Love on the Spot

Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love....

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Street Song
Street Song

Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a str...

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Don't Get Me Wrong
Don't Get Me Wrong

Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell...

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Looking on the Bright Side
Looking on the Bright Side

Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lo...

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Sleeping Car
Sleeping Car

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they ge...

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Waltzes from Vienna
Waltzes from Vienna

In Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. clashes with his domineering father, who wants him t...

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Forbidden Cargo
Forbidden Cargo

Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother an...

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Dandy Dick
Dandy Dick

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, wi...

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Come Back Peter
Come Back Peter

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay....

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Four Men in Prison
Four Men in Prison

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."...

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My Heart Is Calling
My Heart Is Calling

Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo...

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King of the Ritz
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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The Live Wire
The Live Wire

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a...

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The Brave Don't Cry
The Brave Don't Cry

At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine...

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Marry the Girl
Marry the Girl

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Doctor at Sea
Doctor at Sea

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a...

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