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George Carney is a Actor British born on 20 november 1887 at Bristol (United-kingdom)

George Carney

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 november 1887 at Bristol (United-kingdom)
Death 9 december 1947 (at 60 years)

George Carney (21 November 1887 – 9 December 1947) was a British film actor.
He worked in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, in a furniture business, then in the Belfast shipping yards. He then took up concert work and entered Vaudeville before eventually turning to film.

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Harry Terry
Harry Terry
(8 films)
Bernard Miles
Bernard Miles
(5 films)
Edward Rigby
Edward Rigby
(8 films)
John Baxter
John Baxter
(4 films)
Beatrice Varley
Beatrice Varley
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Carney (47 films)

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Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock (1948)
, 1h32
Directed by John Boulting, Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Harcourt Williams, Wylie Watson
Roles Phil Corkery
Rating72% 3.644753.644753.644753.644753.64475
This drama film centres on a gang of assorted criminals led by a psychopathic teen-aged hoodlum known as "Pinkie." The film's real-life theme was the race-track gangs of the 1930s, which fought public battles with straight razors in their competition to control crime at racecourses in southern England. One of these racecourses was at Brighton, a popular seaside resort.
Good-Time Girl
Good-Time Girl (1948)
, 1h21
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Diana Dors
Roles Mr. Rawlings
Rating64% 3.2379153.2379153.2379153.2379153.237915
The film opens with Miss Thorpe, the chairman of the Juvenile court, giving advice to troubled teenager Lyla Lawrence. Miss Thorpe tells Lyla that her life has a similar beginning to that of Gwen Rawlings.
The Root of All Evil
The Root of All Evil (1947)
, 1h50
Directed by Brock Williams
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, John McCallum, Brefni O'Rorke, Moore Marriott, Hazel Court
Roles Bowser
Rating66% 3.3317653.3317653.3317653.3317653.331765
Jeckie Farnish (Calvert) has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle (John McCallum), but takes him for granted and feels that he lacks the spark or ambition to match her determination to make something of herself. Instead she pursues Albert Grice (Hubert Gregg), son of a wealthy grocery store owner, and believes they have an understanding. She is horrified when Albert goes on holiday, and returns newly married to another woman.
Fortune Lane
Fortune Lane (1947)

Directed by John Baxter
Genres Drama
Actors Douglas Barr, George Carney
Roles Mr Quentin

A boy tries to raise money so he can train to be an engineer, but ends up giving the money to a friend so he can visit an ill relative.
Wanted for Murder
Wanted for Murder (1946)
, 1h35
Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver, Bonar Colleano, Stanley Holloway
Roles Boat Rental Agent
Rating66% 3.337513.337513.337513.337513.33751
Anne Fielding is delayed on the London Underground making her late for a meeting with her friend, Victor James Colebrooke. There, she meets Jack Williams who is also delayed. The two take an immediate liking to each other. After emerging from the Underground, Jack helps her locate Victor.
I Know Where I'm Going!
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
, 1h31
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, John Laurie
Roles Mr. Webster
Rating73% 3.696233.696233.696233.696233.69623
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a young middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a very wealthy, much older industrialist, on the (fictitious) Isle of Kiloran.
Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (1945)
, 1h13
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
Roles Tom Mason
Rating64% 3.2417653.2417653.2417653.2417653.241765
John Mills plays an AWOL soldier who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.
Tawny Pipit
Tawny Pipit (1944)
, 1h21
Directed by Bernard Miles, Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis, Jean Gillie, Lucie Mannheim, Brefni O'Rorke
Roles Whimbrel
Rating65% 3.287413.287413.287413.287413.28741
During the Second World War Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis), a fighter pilot just released from hospital, and his nurse (now his girlfriend) Hazel Broome (Rosamund John) are on a walking tour through the countryside. They arrive at the fictional village of Lipsbury Lea and, being keen birdwatchers, discover that a pair of tawny pipits, which are rarely seen in England, are nesting nearby.
The Night Invader
The Night Invader (1943)
, 1h21
Directed by Herbert Mason
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Sybille Binder, Carl Jaffe, Marius Goring, Kynaston Reeves
Roles Conductor

Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
Schweik's New Adventures
Schweik's New Adventures (1943)
, 1h24
Directed by Karel Lamač
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Richard Attenborough, George Carney
Roles Gendarme
Rating61% 3.0826253.0826253.0826253.0826253.082625
L'histoire d'un humoriste tchèque qui réussit à se jouer des Nazis.
In Which We Serve
In Which We Serve (1942)
, 1h55
Directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Mills, Michael Wilding, Bernard Miles, Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Philip Friend
Roles Mr. Blake
Rating71% 3.5960953.5960953.5960953.5960953.596095
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers.