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Edward Rigby is a Actor British born on 4 february 1879 at Ashford (United-kingdom)

Edward Rigby

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Birth name Edward Coke
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 february 1879 at Ashford (United-kingdom)
Death 5 april 1951 (at 72 years) at Richmond (United-kingdom)
Awards Military Cross

Edward Rigby (5 February 1879 – 5 April 1951) was a British character actor.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme d'Edward Rigby, il débute en 1900 au théâtre, où il est très actif durant sa carrière, notamment à Londres. Il se produit aussi à Broadway (New York), entre 1924 et 1931, dans quinze pièces (il est également metteur en scène de l'une d'elles) — voir la rubrique "Théâtre" ci-après —.

Au cinéma, il apparaît d'abord dans un film muet de 1910, L'Oiseau bleu (d'après la pièce éponyme de Maurice Maeterlinck qu'il joue au théâtre cette même année). Puis, comme second rôle de caractère, il contribue à soixante-et-onze films britanniques parlants (dont une co-production), de 1934 à 1951, année de sa mort. Entre autres, il collabore en 1937 à Jeune et innocent d'Alfred Hitchcock, et à un film du tandem Powell-Pressburger en 1944, A Canterbury Tale.

Par ailleurs, aux débuts de la télévision, il participe à un téléfilm dès 1936 (Anna Christie, avec Flora Robson). Et à la fin de sa vie, il joue dans deux pièces d'Henrik Ibsen, Les Revenants et Un ennemi du peuple, diffusées en 1950-1951 dans le cadre d'une série.

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Sydney Box
Sydney Box
(5 films)
Pen Tennyson
Pen Tennyson
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edward Rigby (74 films)

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Actor

Circle of Danger, 1h26
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Edward Rigby
Roles Idwal Llewellyn
Rating64% 3.246753.246753.246753.246753.24675
Clay Douglas enquête sur la mort mystérieuse de son frère. Ce dernier faisait partie des commandos britanniques pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il a été tué par une balle anglaise. Clay est persuadé que l'assassin se trouve parmi les survivants.
Double Confession, 1h20
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Derek Farr, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell, Naunton Wayne, Ronald Howard, Kathleen Harrison
Roles The Fisherman
Rating63% 3.1919053.1919053.1919053.1919053.191905
Jim Medway découvre sa femme étranglée et cherche à faire incriminer un homme d'affaires peu scrupuleux, Charlie Durham. Paynter, l'homme de main de Durham, tente de faire le ménage.
The Happiest Days of Your Life, 1h21
Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Guy Middleton, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby
Roles Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne
Rating71% 3.589323.589323.589323.589323.58932
Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.
The Mudlark, 1h34
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Political films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Andrew Ray, Finlay Currie, Anthony Steel
Roles The Watchman
Rating68% 3.4427253.4427253.4427253.4427253.442725
A young street urchin (Andrew Ray), half-starved and homeless, finds a cameo containing the likeness of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). Not recognizing her, he is told that she is the "mother of all England". Taking the remark literally, he journeys to Windsor Castle to see her.
Christopher Columbus, 1h39
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond
Roles Pedro
Rating59% 2.9992352.9992352.9992352.9992352.999235
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
All Over the Town, 1h23
Directed by Derek N. Twist
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam, Bryan Forbes, James Hayter
Roles Billy Grimmett
Rating65% 3.2832253.2832253.2832253.2832253.283225
After serving in the RAF during the Second World War, Nat Hearn (Norman Wooland) returns to his prewar job as a reporter on the Tormouth Clarion. He is now working alongside Sally Thorpe (Sarah Churchill), who had taken his job when he enlisted. Later, Nat becomes the owner of the paper, but his employees strike, disagreeing with Nat's stance on Tormouth's housing scheme. The town supports Nat in the dispute.
A Run for Your Money, 1h25
Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Hugh Griffith, Clive Morton
Roles Beefeater
Rating63% 3.1931353.1931353.1931353.1931353.193135
Two Welsh coal miners from Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch, David 'Dai Number 9' Jones (Donald Houston) and Thomas 'Twm' Jones (Meredith Edwards), win a contest run by the Echo newspaper. The prize is 100 pounds each, plus the best seats for an important rugby union match between England and Wales at Twickenham. For the naive Welshmen, this is their first trip to England.
Daybreak
Daybreak (1948)
, 1h15
Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Bill Owen, Edward Rigby, Jane Hylton
Roles Bill Shackle
Rating66% 3.3265553.3265553.3265553.3265553.326555
Eddie (Portman) owns a London barber's shop and leads an apparently everyday life. However, under an assumed name he has a secret second identity known to no-one but his assistant Ron (Bill Owen) – he is also one of England's public hangmen, called on periodically to travel to prisons around the country to perform judicial executions.
Easy Money
Easy Money (1948)
, 1h34
Directed by Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Association football films, Films based on plays
Actors Petula Clark, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Jack Watling, Yvonne Owen, Mabel Constanduros
Roles Edward Ball
Rating60% 3.048433.048433.048433.048433.04843
In the first story, a comedy, a content suburban family, headed by Jack Warner, is turned into an unhappy lot when they believe that they have the winning coupon in the football pool. But when it's discovered that the winning coupon apparently wasn't mailed by the younger daughter (Petula Clark), they regain their previously happy lives that had been made unhappy by plans they made regarding how to spend their winnings. Then, when it is discovered that the winning coupon was, in fact, mailed, they decide that they have learned their lesson and resolve not to let the money ruin their happiness. The second is more tragic, with a mild-mannered clerk (Mervyn Johns) concerned about quitting his mundane job. The third is a suspenseful crime caper involving a coupon checker (Dennis Price) and his nightclub singer girlfriend (Greta Gynt in a send-up of Rita Hayworth's Gilda) who devise a scheme to embezzle the winning pot. The final episode, another comedy, concerns a dispirited bass player (Edward Rigby) who discovers he misses the orchestra he left.
Noose
Noose (1948)
, 1h35
Directed by Edmond T. Gréville, Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Carole Landis, Derek Farr, Joseph Calleia, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, John Slater
Roles Slush
Rating61% 3.0850453.0850453.0850453.0850453.085045
Set in post-Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym.
The Three Weird Sisters, 1h22
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Raymond Lovell, Nova Pilbeam, Elwyn Brook-Jones
Roles Waldo
Rating63% 3.1904153.1904153.1904153.1904153.190415
The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude (Price), Maude (Clare) and Isobel (Merrall) live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude almost deaf and Isobel crippled by arthritis. The local coal mine out of which the family made their fortune is almost worked-out and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable. When a section of the underground workings collapses catastrophically, destroying a row of local cottages and unsettling the foundations of the mansion, the sisters feel honour-bound to finance repairs but have no capital with which to do so.