Basil Dignam
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-10-24
Locus Natus: Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Et ut: Basil Martin Dignam
Corridors of Blood
An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel...
release : 1958.12.01popularis : 3.223
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...
release : 1959.03.10popularis : 1.593
Naked Evil
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
release : 1966.05.27popularis : 1.676
The Court Martial of Major Keller
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer...
release : 1961.12.01popularis : 4.594
Son of a Stranger
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
release : 1958.03.03popularis : 0.558
The Depraved
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover,...
release : 1957.11.01popularis : 1.798
Three Sundays to Live
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the...
release : 1957.10.01popularis : 0.68
The Secret Partner
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
release : 1961.05.01popularis : 2.518
The Jokers
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves...
release : 1967.05.15popularis : 7.091
The Nice Americans
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 0.872
80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
release : 1963.08.15popularis : 1.425
Up the Creek
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...
release : 1958.05.13popularis : 0.946
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing...
release : 1967.12.18popularis : 2.607
Seven Seas to Calais
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
release : 1962.12.22popularis : 3.875
Ring of Spies
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research...
release : 1964.03.23popularis : 4.538
The Weapon
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...
release : 1956.09.01popularis : 4.406
Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that...
release : 1960.11.15popularis : 3.818
Innocent Sinners
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 0.906
The Cuckoo Patrol
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
release : 1967.07.16popularis : 1.665
Victim
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life...
release : 1961.08.01popularis : 8.966
I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start...
release : 1959.08.18popularis : 4.297
Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to...
release : 1955.10.02popularis : 2.044
You Pay Your Money
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
release : 1957.02.13popularis : 1.27
Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
release : 1958.10.28popularis : 2.695
Gorgo
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
release : 1961.02.02popularis : 6.446
Assignment K
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...
release : 1968.02.16popularis : 4.439
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 : 6.728
Number Ten
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United...
release : 1968.10.07popularis : 0.702
Sentenced for Life
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who...
release : 1960.01.01popularis : 0.869
I Spy a Stranger
Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in...
release : 1972.09.25popularis : 0.873
The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...
release : 1955.08.26popularis : 11.948
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 56.839
The Counterfeit Plan
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...
release : 1957.01.01popularis : 3.218
Heavens Above!
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and...
release : 1963.05.20popularis : 3.047
10 Rillington Place
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of...
release : 1971.02.10popularis : 22.329
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always...
release : 1974.01.24popularis : 2.703
The Narrowing Circle
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
release : 1956.02.29popularis : 0.74
Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...
release : 1968.12.20popularis : 4.565
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...
release : 1957.04.01popularis : 2.591
Smart Alec
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
release : 1951.03.01popularis : 1.291
The Spider's Web
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
release : 1960.11.01popularis : 4.645
Two on the Tiles
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife...
release : 1951.09.01popularis : 1.411
Sapphire
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of...
release : 1959.11.02popularis : 3.182
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes...
release : 1971.02.18popularis : 6.419
Where the Spies Are
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is...
release : 1966.01.26popularis : 9.232
Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing...
release : 1956.07.05popularis : 2.537
The Games
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the...
release : 1970.08.07popularis : 3.162
Life for Ruth
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...
release : 1962.09.06popularis : 2.22
Brothers in Law
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end,...
release : 1957.03.04popularis : 3.347
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the...
release : 1960.12.22popularis : 1.799
Fate Takes a Hand
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to...
release : 1961.10.12popularis : 2.619
Maytime in Mayfair
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as...
release : 1949.05.24popularis : 1.048
Hammer the Toff
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
release : 1952.05.01popularis : 1.784
The Lady with a Lamp
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young...
release : 1951.09.22popularis : 2.851
Rotten to the Core
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's...
release : 1965.07.14popularis : 0.982
They Can't Hang Me
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
release : 1955.10.01popularis : 1.784
A Touch of Larceny
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan...
release : 1960.02.04popularis : 3.03
Port of Escape
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...
release : 1956.05.01popularis : 2.748
Appointment with Venus
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on...
release : 1951.10.08popularis : 1.758
Laughter in the Dark
Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
release : 1969.05.11popularis : 0.969
Rockets Galore
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
release : 1958.10.19popularis : 1.947
His Excellency
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
release : 1952.01.22popularis : 1.525
Carry On Sergeant
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and...
release : 1958.08.31popularis : 11.896