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Leo Britt is a Actor born on 27 march 1908
Leo Britt (27 March 1908 – 1979) was a British actor. In Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, he played the storyteller at a party. A year later he played alongside Basil Rathbone in a scene in the film The Court Jester.
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Birth 27 march 1908
Death 1 january 1979 (at 70 years)
Death 1 january 1979 (at 70 years)
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Filmography of Leo Britt (11 films)
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
, 2h35Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Siân Phillips, Alison Leggatt, Michael Bryant
Roles Elder Master (uncredited)
Rating67%
Terence Rattigan's screenplay is a major departure from the simple plot of Hilton's novella. The time frame of the original story was advanced by several decades, starting in the 1920s, continuing through the Second World war, and ending in the late 1960s. Also, it does not show Chipping's first arrival at the Brookfield School, but starts with him already an established member of the teaching staff.
, 2h19Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, Mark Burns
Roles General Scarlett
Rating65%
The film is about the folly of war, and the poor state of the British Army and its leadership during the Crimean War (1853–56). Britain had not fought in a European theatre since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and the army had become sclerotic and bound by bureaucracy. Tactical and logistical methodology had not advanced in forty years, and the whole ethos of the army was bound in outmoded social values.
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
, 2h23Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy
Roles German General in Staff Car (uncredited)
Rating76%
In Britain, in the spring of 1944, Allied forces are preparing for the D-Day invasion. Among them are Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin), an OSS officer; his commander, Regular Army Major General Sam Worden (Ernest Borgnine); and his former commander Colonel Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan). Early in the film, the personalities of the three men are shown to clash and the characters of the individualistic Reisman and the domineering Breed are established. Reisman is aided by his friend, the mild-mannered Major Max Armbruster (George Kennedy).
The Court Jester (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Panama, Bernard McEveety, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Roles Sir Bertram
Rating77%
Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king.
Dial M for Murder (1954)
, 1h45Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Patrick Allen
Roles Storyteller
Rating81%
Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), an ex-professional tennis player, lives in a ground floor flat with his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly). Tony retired after Margot complained about his busy schedule and she began an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), which Tony secretly discovered. Tony devises a plan to have Margot murdered.
Elephant Walk (1954)
, 1h43Directed by William Dieterle, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman, Rosalind Ivan
Roles Planter Chisholm
Rating62%
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation because it blocks their migrating path. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. The elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire.
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
, 1h39Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Barbara Rush, Torin Thatcher, Herbert Marshall, David Farrar
Roles Sir Robert
Rating63%
Myles Falworth (Tony Curtis) and his sister Meg (Barbara Rush) live in obscurity on a farm in Crosbey-Dale with their guardian Diccon Bowman (Rhys Williams). This is to protect them from the attainder placed upon their family by King Henry IV of England (Ian Keith) because their father has been (falsely) accused of treason and murdered by the Earl of Alban (David Farrar). When a hunting party comprising the Earl of Alban, the lord of Crosbey-Dale, and another nobleman, Sir Robert, stop at their farm for refreshment, they are repulsed by Myles to stop them molesting his sister.
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
, 1h16Directed by Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Leo Britt, Leonard Mudie, Byron Foulger
Roles Dr. Benton
Rating57%
A pair of agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) are sent to investigate a local appliance store, where all of the clocks have stopped at the same time, and metal items in the store have been magnetized. The source of this is traced to an office located directly above the store, where scientific equipment is found, along with a dead body. There are also signs of radioactivity, but the cause of the difficulties itself is clearly no longer in the room, or the immediate area.
Take My Life (1947)
, 1h19Directed by Ronald Neame, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Edwards, Maurice Denham
Roles John Newcombe
Rating68%
Nicholas "Nicky" Talbot attends the London debut of his wife, opera singer Philippa Shelley, at Covent Garden. After her successful performance, Nicky runs into former girlfriend Elizabeth Rusman backstage, a musician in the orchestra, who asks for his help. She gives him her address before Philippa appears (and keeps his personalised pencil). At home, Nicky and a jealous Philippa quarrel over Elizabeth. When Philippa throws an object that strikes her husband in the forehead, he leaves in a huff.
They Came by Night (1940)
Directed by Harry Lachman
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, born Harry Idris Miller, George Merritt, Kathleen Harrison, John Glyn-Jones, Athole Stewart
Roles George
Rating60%
The Roof (1933)
Directed by George A. Cooper
Genres Crime
Actors Judy Gunn, Russell Thorndike, Michael Hogan, Michael Hogan, Ivor Barnard, Leo Britt
Roles Tony Freyne
Rating54%