Peter Gawthorne

Peter Gawthorne

Birthday: 1884-08-31

Place of Birth: Queen's County, Ireland

Biography: No biography available.

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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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Paid to Kill
Paid to Kill

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has tr...

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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Dead Men Are Dangerous

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corps...

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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year ...

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Crime Unlimited
Crime Unlimited

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves....

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Ask a Policeman
Ask a Policeman

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and J...

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Convict 99
Convict 99

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...

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Good Morning, Boys!
Good Morning, Boys!

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s s...

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Where's That Fire
Where's That Fire

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels....

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Tale of Three Women
Tale of Three Women

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Origina...

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Paul Temple Returns
Paul Temple Returns

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There ...

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Man of the Moment
Man of the Moment

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself....

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Perfect Understanding
Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (G...

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Let the People Sing
Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill...

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Flying Fifty-Five
Flying Fifty-Five

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just abo...

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Dirty Work
Dirty Work

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief....

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His Glorious Night
His Glorious Night

Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in lov...

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Murder in Reverse?
Murder in Reverse?

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is comm...

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The Ticket of Leave Man
The Ticket of Leave Man

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The ...

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Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars....

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Three Silent Men
Three Silent Men

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir Jam...

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Sunny Side Up
Sunny Side Up

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Moll...

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Brief Ecstasy
Brief Ecstasy

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plun...

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Gangway
Gangway

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster....

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The Camels Are Coming
The Camels Are Coming

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smuggler...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

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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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Inspector Hornleigh
Inspector Hornleigh

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspe...

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Charlie Chan Carries On
Charlie Chan Carries On

Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings in...

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Sword of Honour
Sword of Honour

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in ...

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This Man Is Mine
This Man Is Mine

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, wi...

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Jericho
Jericho

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape....

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Pot Luck
Pot Luck

A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case...

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Band Waggon
Band Waggon

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians...

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The Man Behind the Mask
The Man Behind the Mask

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything...

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Temple Tower
Temple Tower

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel T...

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Soho Conspiracy
Soho Conspiracy

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants ...

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The House of Trent
The House of Trent

It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he...

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...

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Those Three French Girls
Those Three French Girls

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and lea...

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The Man Who Came Back
The Man Who Came Back

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own t...

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The Crouching Beast
The Crouching Beast

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish p...

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Return of a Stranger
Return of a Stranger

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in mur...

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The Iron Duke
The Iron Duke

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington...

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Leave It to Smith
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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"Pimpernel" Smith
"Pimpernel" Smith

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology st...

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Easy Riches
Easy Riches

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George ...

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Gasbags
Gasbags

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold...

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I Thank You
I Thank You

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-...

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Cottage to Let
Cottage to Let

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hosp...

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Crook's Tour
Crook's Tour

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves...

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Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lanca...

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Father Steps Out
Father Steps Out

The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veter...

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They Came by Night
They Came by Night

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist....

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Bell-Bottom George
Bell-Bottom George

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in...

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One Hysterical Night
One Hysterical Night

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Nap...

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C.O.D.
C.O.D.

A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather.......

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The Flag Lieutenant
The Flag Lieutenant

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice...

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His Lordship
His Lordship

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the ...

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The Lodger
The Lodger

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of ki...

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Under a Cloud
Under a Cloud

Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his ...

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Crime Over London
Crime Over London

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they...

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Traitor Spy
Traitor Spy

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints....

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Much Too Shy
Much Too Shy

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders port...

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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention...

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No Limit
No Limit

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite wha...

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Windbag the Sailor
Windbag the Sailor

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coa...

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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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Salute the Toff
Salute the Toff

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films....

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High Jinks in Society
High Jinks in Society

After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A ...

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Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. ...

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They Flew Alone
They Flew Alone

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...

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The Case of Charles Peace
The Case of Charles Peace

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a pr...

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The Young Mr. Pitt
The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...

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Two Hearts in Waltz Time
Two Hearts in Waltz Time

A composer at work on an operetta falls in love with a girl, without realising that she is the star ...

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Secret Journey
Secret Journey

A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention...

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Death Is a Number
Death Is a Number

A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the ...

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