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Wilfrid Lawson is a Actor British born on 13 january 1900 at Bradford (United-kingdom)

Wilfrid Lawson

Wilfrid Lawson
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Birth name Wilfrid Lawson Worsnop
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 january 1900 at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Death 10 october 1966 (at 66 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Wilfrid Lawson (14 January 1900 – 10 October 1966) was an English character actor of stage and screen. He became known for his heavy drinking as well as his many starring roles.

Biography

Wilfrid (Wilfred) Lawson débute au théâtre en Angleterre, dans les années 1920, et sera très actif en ce domaine au long de sa carrière. Notamment, il joue dans des pièces de George Bernard Shaw (dont Pygmalion) et William Shakespeare.

Au cinéma, il participe à cinquante films, de 1931 à 1967, majoritairement britanniques (son dernier, La Reine des Vikings, sort l'année suivant sa mort). Un de ses films les plus connus est Pygmalion, adaptation en 1938 de la pièce de Shaw, où il interprète Alfred Doolittle, aux côtés de Wendy Hiller (sa fille Eliza) et de Leslie Howard (Henry Higgins). Entre 1936 et 1940, il contribue aussi à quatre films américains, dont Le Premier Rebelle en 1939 et Les Hommes de la mer en 1940, tous deux avec John Wayne, avant un dernier film américain en 1956, Guerre et Paix (rôle du Prince Bolkonski, père d’Andreï, personnifié par Mel Ferrer).

Lors de ses passages aux États-Unis, dans la seconde moitié des années 1930, Wilfrid Lawson joue également au théâtre à Broadway (New York), dans quatre pièces.

Enfin, à la télévision, il collabore à quatorze séries (dont plusieurs dédiées au théâtre), de 1956 à 1966.

Best films

Pygmalion (1939)
(Actor)

Usually with

Leslie Arliss
Leslie Arliss
(3 films)
John Argyle
John Argyle
(3 films)
Mario Zampi
Mario Zampi
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wilfrid Lawson (48 films)

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Actor

The Viking Queen, 1h31
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Don Murray, Denis Shaw, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Adrienne Corri, Niall MacGinnis
Roles King Priam
Rating51% 2.5561952.5561952.5561952.5561952.556195
According to her father's wishes, Queen Salinas agrees to share the rule of Icena with Justinian, a Roman. This decision angers both the bloodthirsty Druids and Romans less just than Justinian. As the two rulers fall in love, the Druids and the Romans begin to plot their downfall. It's not long before the hills of Britain are stained with the lovers blood.
The Wrong Box, 1h45
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Roles Peacock
Rating66% 3.347483.347483.347483.347483.34748
Elderly brothers Masterman (Mills) and Joseph Finsbury (Richardson) are the surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up many years before, in which the last member stands to receive a fortune. Masterman is attended by his medical student grandson, Michael (Caine), while his greedy cousins Morris (Cook) and John (Moore) do their best to keep their annoying uncle Joseph alive. Masterman, who hasn't talked to his despised brother in many years, summons Joseph to his "deathbed," intending to kill him so that Michael can get the money.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones (1964)
, 2h8
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento, Joyce Redman
Roles Black George
Rating63% 3.1963853.1963853.1963853.1963853.196385
The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy (George Devine) returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby (played by a girl, Lynn Goldsworthy) in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge (Jack MacGowran), and one of his servants, Jenny Jones (Joyce Redman), have "birthed" the infant out of lust, the squire banishes them and chooses to raise little Tom Jones as if he were his own son.
Becket
Becket (1964)
, 2h28
Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown
Roles Old Soldier (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.895273.895273.895273.895273.89527
During the late 12th century, about 100 years after the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, the Normans have removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a new monarchy, aristocracy, and clerical hierarchy.
Go to Blazes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Norman Rossington, Maggie Smith
Roles Scrap Dealer
Rating59% 2.957282.957282.957282.957282.95728
Three incompetent criminals steal a fire engine as a getaway vehicle. Recently released from prison, Bernard, Harry and Alfie have planned the perfect bank robbery, for which they need the perfect getaway. This is the part that let them down last time, hence their prolonged stay at ‘Her Majesty’s Pleasure…’
Postman's Knock, 1h28
Directed by Robert Lynn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Shelley, Spike Milligan, John Wood, Warren Mitchell, Lance Percival, Arthur Mullard
Roles Postman
Rating53% 2.667562.667562.667562.667562.66756
Harold Petts (Spike Milligan) is a conscientious village postman who receives a promotion that takes him to London, to be trained at London's busiest post office. However, after his first day in the big city he is soon in trouble. In the main sorting office he succeeds in beating the new mail sorting machine at pigeonholing letters for delivery (the machine blows up in the process). As a result he is placed safely out of the way in the parcels department, but sorts parcels at such speed that he puts everyone else in the department out of work. This leads him to a meeting with the staff Psychiatrist, and then to Jean (Barbara Shelley), an ambitious art student, and the pair find themselves the main suspects in a mail theft ring, with the police and Post Office officials hot on their heels.
The Naked Edge, 1h37
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Peter Cushing
Roles Mr. Pom
Rating65% 3.2942353.2942353.2942353.2942353.294235
In the aftermath of a theft and murder, Martha Radcliffe (Kerr) increasingly suspects her husband George Radcliffe (Cooper), whose testimony in court convicted the main suspect, of being the real culprit.
Room at the Top, 1h55
Directed by Jack Clayton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Baddeley, Donald Houston
Roles Uncle Nat (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.7430353.7430353.7430353.7430353.743035
In late 1940s Yorkshire, England, Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), an ambitious young man who has just moved from the dreary factory town of Dufton, arrives in Warnley, to assume a secure, but poorly paid, post in the Borough Treasurer's Department. Determined to succeed, and ignoring the warnings of a colleague, Soames (Donald Houston), he is drawn to Susan Brown (Heather Sears), daughter of the local industrial magnate, Mr. Brown (Donald Wolfit). He deals with Joe's social climbing by sending Susan abroad; Joe turns for solace to Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), an unhappily married older woman who falls in love with him.
Expresso Bongo, 1h51
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Eric Pohlmann, Hermione Baddeley
Roles Mr Rudge
Rating61% 3.0921453.0921453.0921453.0921453.092145
Paul Scofield plays Johnny, a slimy, small-time music promoter and talent scout who notices teenage girls going crazy for the singing and bongo playing of talentless and seemingly idiotic Herbert Rudge (played by James Kenny). Johnny rechristens Rudge as "Bongo Herbert" and signs him to a contract that gives Johnny a 50% share of the profits. With Johnny's help, Bongo rockets to stardom. Bongo's success attracts a host of sleazy music industry types intent on exploiting him. Johnny quickly finds himself outclassed in the sleaze department as Bongo turns out to be the slipperiest slime of them all.
Tread Softly Stranger, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan, Patrick Allen, Jane Griffiths, Joseph Tomelty
Roles Holroyd
Rating66% 3.345683.345683.345683.345683.34568
The action takes place in the Yorkshire steel town of Rawborough – Rotherham was used for the extensive location filming – to which native son Johnny Mansell (George Baker) has fled after racking up large gambling debts in London. Johnny moves into a cramped flat with his brother Dave (Terence Morgan), a clerk in a local steel mill, and Dave's girlfriend Calico (Diana Dors), a hostess in a local nightclub. There is an instant attraction between Calico and Johnny, and it becomes apparent that the relationship between Dave and Calico is rather one-sided. It transpires that in an attempt to keep hold of her, he has embezzled £300 from his employers which he has used to buy her clothes and various gifts. He now has one week to repay the money before the firm's auditors make their visit.
The Naked Truth, 1h31
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Joan Sims
Roles Walter - Contestant in T.V. Show (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3956653.3956653.3956653.3956653.395665
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is a blackmailer who threatens to publish embarrassing secrets in his magazine The Naked Truth. After attempting to blackmail a famous scientist (who commits suicide), and an MP (who suffers a heart attack in parliament, and probably succumbs), his latest targets are Lord Henry Mayley (Terry-Thomas), television host Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), writer Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton).