Sam Kydd
Birthday: 1917-02-15
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Orders to Kill
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a ...
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Secret People
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the polic...
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Make Mine a Million
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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The Killing of Sister George
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long...
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Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...
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Moon Zero Two
On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industria...
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Obsession
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover....
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. ...
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Till Death Us Do Part
Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffe...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the ...
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The Big Frame
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night bef...
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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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Tiger in the Smoke
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used ...
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The Voice of Merrill
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all o...
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Forbidden
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu...
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Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...
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There Was a Crooked Man
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught ...
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Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...
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The Iron Maiden
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is...
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The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on v...
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Up the Creek
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkel...
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A Prize of Gold
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orpha...
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Circus Friends
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster....
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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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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The Mirror Crack'd
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to hav...
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A Song for Tomorrow
Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautifu...
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The Treasure of Monte Cristo
A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intr...
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You Can't Escape
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former...
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The Hide-Out
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infect...
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The Blue Lamp
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new ...
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Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...
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Trent's Last Case
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the ...
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The Shillingbury Blowers
A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes t...
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The Scamp
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with...
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They Made Me a Fugitive
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....
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Island of Terror
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and di...
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The Projected Man
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps...
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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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Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
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Appointment in London
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England....
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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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The Hasty Heart
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in d...
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High Treason
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....
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Smokescreen
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud....
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Impulse
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. ...
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I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...
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The Runaway Bus
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a ...
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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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Mr Jones Takes the Air
Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember ...
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The Bass Player and the Blonde
George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an enga...
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Gold is Where You Find It
A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold ...
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Yesterday's Hero
Successful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship wi...
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Ireland, Mother Ireland
A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, kille...
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Assassin for Hire
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of...
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Derby Day
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby...
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Law and Disorder
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths t...
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The Midas Plague
The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people a...
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Kipper
Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the deri...
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To the Public Danger
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become ca...
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Radio Cab Murder
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in orde...
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Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident ...
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Danger on Dartmoor
The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, an...
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The Embezzler
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims....
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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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They Who Dare
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with ord...
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The Great Snail Race
A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's ca...
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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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Storm Over the Nile
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Li...
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10 Rillington Place
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the tit...
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Scott of the Antarctic
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be...
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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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Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and d...
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Too Late the Hero
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...
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Vengeance Is Mine
In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides...
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The Young Lovers
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian di...
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The House in Marsh Road
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the hous...
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that som...
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Final Appointment
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. Th...
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Hunted
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across Engl...
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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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Passage Home
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...
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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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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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Carson Country
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920...
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The Constant Husband
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With ...
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Mr. Denning Drives North
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character ...
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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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Curtain Up
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the fol...
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The Long Haul
An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't lo...
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Madness of the Heart
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly rea...
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The Hour of 13
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief N...
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The Cure for Love
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r...
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Portrait of Alison
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard....
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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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Josephine and Men
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch f...
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Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...
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The Price of Silence
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up w...
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I Was Monty's Double
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery...
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Portrait from Life
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to...
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Trottie True
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to ...
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The End of the Road
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended fam...
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Home and Away
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it t...
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Libel
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his ...
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The Steel Key
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend....
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Sporting Chance
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of...
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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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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic...
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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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The Saint's Return
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend....
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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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Death Goes to School
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school w...
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Time Bomb
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bo...
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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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Smashing Time
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...
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Eye of the Needle
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...
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Highly Dangerous
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country....
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One Way Out
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices fi...
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A Town Like Alice
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...
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The Rainbow Jacket
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next ch...
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Love in Waiting
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain....
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Trouble in the Air
A radio commentator is sent to a village to broadcast a bell-ringing team. Meanwhile a property spec...
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The 39 Steps
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a sp...
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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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Dead Lucky
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been wor...
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The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape
Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a re...
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Hell Is Sold Out
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname....
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The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...
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High Rise Donkey
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time cro...
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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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Look at Life: There Ought to Be a Law
A look at some of the laws you never even thought existed and their pitfalls....
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The Amorous Milkman
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, incl...
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The Alf Garnett Saga
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is ...
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Just My Luck
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre...
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Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur...
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...
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Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Go...
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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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Hot Ice
An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps th...
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Colonel Bogey
A young Victorian couple spends time with the wife's aunt, who behaves as if her late husband were s...
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The Scapegoat
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of...
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