Russell Napier
Birthday: 1910-11-28
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Biography: Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.
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Tread Softly Stranger
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend p...
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Little Red Monkey
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same ti...
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The Blue Peter
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communis...
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A Time to Kill
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to ...
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Nobody Runs Forever
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level...
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The Mark
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of...
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The Angry Silence
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the ...
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The Blood Beast Terror
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Fo...
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H.M.S. Defiant
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty...
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The Brain Machine
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer....
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Francis of Assisi
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army...
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The Stranger Came Home
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is e...
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The Man in the Road
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret f...
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The Dark Stairway
A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself ...
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Blind Man's Bluff
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell'...
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Robbery Under Arms
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convi...
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Son of Robin Hood
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, th...
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Deep Dig
Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques....
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Death of an Angel
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the ...
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Black Orchid
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling f...
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The Shiralee
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him....
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The Hole In The Ground
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...
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The Narrowing Circle
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost....
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Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutiona...
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Stolen Face
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who brok...
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The Last Man to Hang
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose....
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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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A Night to Remember
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...
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Hell Is a City
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming ...
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Man in the Middle
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier ...
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Guilty?
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor...
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, ar...
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Conflict of Wings
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station i...
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The Saint's Return
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend....
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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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36 Hours
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely co...
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The Boy Kumasenu
It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...
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Destination Death
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads...
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