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Ernest Butcher is a Actor British born on 7 april 1885 at Burnley (United-kingdom)
Edward Ernest Butcher (7 April 1885 – 8 June 1965) was a British film actor.
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Ernest Butcher
Birth name Edward Ernest Butcher
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 april 1885 at Burnley (United-kingdom)
Death 8 june 1965 (at 80 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 april 1885 at Burnley (United-kingdom)
Death 8 june 1965 (at 80 years) at London (United-kingdom)
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The Desperate Man (1959)
, 57minutesOrigin United-kingdom
Actors Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell, Charles Gray, Peter Swanwick, Patricia Burke
Roles Grocer
Background (1953)
, 1h23Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Mandy Miller, Jeremy Spenser
Roles Clerk
Rating60%
John and Barbie Lomax (Friend and Hobson) have been married for almost 20 years, but the marriage has seemingly reached breaking point. After leaving the army, John has been working hard on making a career for himself as a barrister, which takes up all of his time and attention, leaving him exhausted and irritable. He acts intolerantly and dismissively towards Barbie and their three children, and the marital relationship comes under intolerable strain as the couple argue, bicker and snipe constantly at each other. Realising that the poisoned atmosphere is not good for the children to experience, they agree that in the circumstances divorce is the lesser evil.
Time Bomb (1953)
, 1h13Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern, Harold Warrender
Roles Martindale
Rating59%
In Birmingham city, Railway Police Constable Charles Baron (John Horsley) is involved in a confrontation with a man believed to be a local vagrant. The man gets away, but he is soon found out to have been a saboteur, who has left a suitcase full of detonators and bomb-making components at the railway yard. Police realize that the man was attempting to sabotage a trainload of sea mines, destined for the Royal Navy Yard at Portsmouth. The train is stopped as soon as possible in case an explosion is imminent, but a residential area is nearby and the police have to evacuate local residents.
The Happy Family (1952)
, 1h26Directed by Muriel Box
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols, John Stratton, Shirley Mitchell
Rating65%
The House of Lords is a grocery shop that sits on the South Bank of the river Thames close to the site of Festival Hall which is noisily under construction. It is owned by the Lord family, a husband and wife with several children. Lillian Lord runs the shop, while Henry is a British Railways train driver, who has worked on the railways for over 30 years and who is just about to retire. He is looking forward to enjoying a quiet retirement at the family shop looking after his pet hare, Winston, though his spiritualist sister in law Ada has had supernatural visions of "men in black" bringing discord.
Night and the City (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Sports films, Children's films
Actors Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan
Roles Bert, Street Musician (uncredited)
Rating78%
Harry Fabian (Widmark) is an ambitious American hustler and conman operating in London, always looking for a better deal. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol (Tierney), nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross (Sullivan), and Helen (Withers), who is Phil's estranged wife. While attempting a con at a wrestling match, Fabian witnesses Gregorius (Zbyszko), a veteran Greek wrestler (and looking for all the world like tough guy actor Lawrence Tierney near the end of Tierney's troubled life) arguing with his son Kristo (Lom), who has organised the fight, and effectively controls all wrestling in London. After denouncing Kristo's event as tasteless exhibitionism that shames the sport's Greco-Roman traditions, Gregorius leaves with Nikolas (Richmond), a fellow wrestler. Fabian catches up with the two and befriends them, having realised that he can host wrestling in London without interference from Kristo if he can persuade his father to support the enterprise.
Highly Dangerous (1950)
, 1h30Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Monde imaginaire, Political films
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Olaf Pooley
Roles Tom - Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Rating60%
Une entomologiste est envoyée en mission secrète en Europe de l'Est pour analyser certains insectes qui sont élevés par l'ennemi pour répandre des maladies. Elle reçoit l'aide d'un journaliste américain.
No Trace (1950)
Directed by John Gilling
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Dinah Sheridan, Hugh Sinclair, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan, Michael Brennan
Roles Mr. Fern
Rating61%
Blackout (1950)
, 1h18Directed by Robert S. Baker
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Dinah Sheridan, Kynaston Reeves, Maxwell Reed, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Brennan, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Roles Benny
Rating57%
An engineer Christopher Pelly (Maxwell Reed), loses his eyesight in an accident. He goes to London to have an eye operation. There he wants to go to his friends house but the taxi driver dropped him at the wrong house in Kensington. In the house three men had murdered a person with a knife and the corpse was lying on the floor. Pelly doesn't know that he is in the wrong house, and seeing that he is blind, the three murderers don't kill him. Pelly reported the incident to the police but the police were unable to find the dead body. When Pelly regains his eyesight after the operation he decides to solve the murder mystery.
For Them That Trespass (1949)
, 1h35Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Todd, Patricia Ruth Plunkett, James Hayter, Harry Fowler, Michael Brennan, Joan Dowling
Roles uncredited
Rating64%
Promising writer Christopher Drew conceals his relationship with a murdered woman in order to protect his career, even though this results in an innocent man going to prison for the killing. The upper-class Drew decides he needs some first-hand experience to invigorate his work, so he explores the seedier areas of town in search of inspiration. Much to his dismay, he witnesses a murder but refuses to help an innocent man, Herbert Logan, arrested for the crime, because his presence in such a neighbourhood would cause a scandal. Logan is freed after serving 15 years in jail and he hears his "crime" detailed on a radio drama written by Drew, which enables him to gather enough evidence to finally clear his name.
Diamond City (1949)
, 1h30Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Niall MacGinnis, Mervyn Johns, Bill Owen
Rating58%
After the discovery and exploitation of a new diamond mine in South Africa, lawman Stafford Parker tries to maintain order in the ramshackle mining town that springs up around it.,
My Brother Jonathan (1948)
, 1h42Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Denison, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dulcie Gray, Fred Groves, Ronald Howard, Mary Clare
Roles Porter
Rating71%
The story revolves around the life of Jonathan Dakers (Denison), a small town doctor. He is training to be a surgeon when his father dies. Due to the resulting financial problems, he cannot continue his training. He buys a share in Dr. Hammond's general practice in Wednesford, a poor foundry town.
Easy Money (1948)
, 1h34Directed 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 Clerk
Rating60%
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.
Dear Murderer (1947)
, 1h30Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Maxwell Reed, Hazel Court
Roles Hall Porter
Rating68%
Lee and Vivien Warren (Portman and Gynt) are trapped in a nightmare marriage. Vivien is despising, devious and habitually unfaithful while Lee is pathologically jealous. On his return from a lengthy business trip to New York, Lee finds several cards addressed to Vivien signed "Love Always" and determines to kill her latest lover, Richard Fenton (Dennis Price). He confronts Fenton, who admits to his affair with Vivien, and persuades him to end the relationship by writing her a farewell letter. He then kills Fenton, and stages the scene to look like a suicide, believing he has committed the perfect crime as the letter which Fenton had just written at his dictation has all the appearance of a suicide note.
While I Live (1947)
, 1h25Directed by John Harlow
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Sonia Dresdel, Carol Raye, Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, Charles Victor
Roles Ambrose
Rating65%
In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.
Appointment with Crime (1946)
, 1h32Directed by John Harlow
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Alan Wheatley, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard
Roles John Brown
Rating62%
Leo Martin (Hartnell) works for a criminal gang run by Gus Loman (Lovell) that primarily uses a smash and grab tactic. During one particular risky robbery heist, Leo breaks the window at a jewelry store only to have his wrists broken by a gate falling. He is soon caught and brought to prison to serve his term. Throughout his stay, Leo does not reveal who he is working for to the authorities but instead serves his time angered by Gus for running out on him during the robbery.