Wilfrid Lawson
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1900-01-13
Locus Natus: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Et ut: Wilfrid Worsnop, Wilfred Lawson, Wilfrid Lawson Worsnop
Tread Softly Stranger
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
release : 1958.08.15popularis : 3.171
Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...
release : 1939.03.03popularis : 7.997
The Viking Queen
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the...
release : 1967.03.25popularis : 14.368
Allegheny Uprising
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many...
release : 1939.11.10popularis : 4.504
Bank Holiday
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty...
release : 1938.01.27popularis : 2.471
Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
release : 1957.07.23popularis : 7.694
The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his...
release : 1955.04.19popularis : 3.339
The Long Voyage Home
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
release : 1940.11.16popularis : 5.953
The Naked Edge
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the...
release : 1961.06.28popularis : 3.592
The Night Has Eyes
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 6.216
The Gaunt Stranger
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...
release : 1938.10.27popularis : 4.914
Postman's Knock
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery....
release : 1962.02.22popularis : 6.184
Tower of Terror
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a...
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 6.986
The Terror
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks,...
release : 1938.05.02popularis : 1.604
Hard Steel
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
release : 1942.05.18popularis : 1.264
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...
release : 1940.05.28popularis : 2.621
Stolen Life
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul...
release : 1939.01.18popularis : 2.883
Make Me an Offer!
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of...
release : 1954.12.08popularis : 2.765
Danny Boy
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the...
release : 1941.08.25popularis : 2.92
The Great Mr Handel
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the...
release : 1942.11.09popularis : 1.943
White Hunter
Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...
release : 1936.11.25popularis : 2.428
The Siege of Manchester
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
release : 1965.10.31popularis : 1.152
Becket
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...
release : 1964.03.11popularis : 18.201
Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
release : 1959.01.22popularis : 7.718
Nothing Barred
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture,...
release : 1961.10.10popularis : 2.142
Thursday's Child
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
release : 1943.03.24popularis : 1.245
Strike It Rich
Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' ...
release : 1933.11.04popularis : 6.667
The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
release : 1966.06.19popularis : 9.152
Turn of the Tide
Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North...
release : 1935.06.08popularis : 2.85
The Farmer's Wife
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...
release : 1941.04.20popularis : 0.964
War and Peace
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two...
release : 1956.08.21popularis : 16.973
The Man Who Made Diamonds
“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture...
release : 1937.12.06popularis : 1.987
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...
release : 1966.12.28popularis : 8.348
Dead Man's Shoes
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old...
release : 1940.05.05popularis : 1.655
Jeannie
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
release : 1941.09.06popularis : 0.918
East Lynne on the Western Front
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain...
release : 1931.07.13popularis : 2.764
Expresso Bongo
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
release : 1959.12.01popularis : 2.68
Go to Blazes
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate...
release : 1962.04.18popularis : 2.243
Now and Forever
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...
release : 1956.09.10popularis : 3.34
The Turners of Prospect Road
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of...
release : 1947.06.16popularis : 3.524
The Naked Truth
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or...
release : 1957.12.03popularis : 4.844
An Alligator Named Daisy
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and...
release : 1955.12.13popularis : 4.43
Fanny by Gaslight
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...
release : 1944.05.08popularis : 4.433
Tom Jones
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
release : 1963.08.24popularis : 9.605