William Austin
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1884-06-10
Locus Natus: Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]
Et ut: William Crosby Piercy Austin
Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
release : 1933.12.18popularis : 8.484
The Gay Divorcee
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...
release : 1934.10.12popularis : 9.574
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...
release : 1933.08.17popularis : 8.69
Alias Mr. Twilight
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the...
release : 1946.12.24popularis : 1.703
The Garden of Weeds
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
release : 1924.11.02popularis : 0.487
The World At Her Feet
In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane...
release : 1927.05.14popularis : 1.008
The Best People
Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...
release : 1925.11.09popularis : 1.316
County Hospital
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
release : 1932.06.25popularis : 4.718
The Ghost Goes Wild
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...
release : 1947.08.08popularis : 1.782
It
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
release : 1927.02.05popularis : 4.267
Corsair
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
release : 1931.11.28popularis : 4.987
Seven Days
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is...
release : 1925.09.20popularis : 0.917
Batman
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American...
release : 1943.07.16popularis : 11.577
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson...
release : 1937.09.29popularis : 5.753
Ruggles of Red Gap
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
release : 1923.10.07popularis : 0.885
Embarrassing Moments
A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
release : 1930.01.17popularis : 0.842
Three Men in a Boat
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a...
release : 1933.04.30popularis : 0.967
Handle with Care
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy of marital complications and mix-ups.
release : 1922.01.22popularis : 0.708
Sweetie
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
release : 1929.10.25popularis : 2.505
Fig Leaves
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the...
release : 1926.08.22popularis : 2.622
The Cowboy King
"Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young...
release : 1922.05.01popularis : 0.343
$1,000 a Minute
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
release : 1935.10.21popularis : 1.788
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...
release : 1939.09.01popularis : 14.895
Live, Love and Learn
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...
release : 1937.10.29popularis : 4.288
Doctor Rhythm
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
release : 1938.05.06popularis : 4.264
The Flirting Widow
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
release : 1930.05.11popularis : 0.948
Drums of Love
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
release : 1928.01.24popularis : 1.728
What Happened to Jones
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on...
release : 1926.02.08popularis : 0.822
Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
release : 1930.08.15popularis : 1.668
The Goose and the Gander
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...
release : 1935.09.21popularis : 11.869
Duck Soup
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation...
release : 1927.03.13popularis : 2.476
Oil for the Lamps of China
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
release : 1935.06.08popularis : 2.995
Rule 'Em and Weep
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
release : 1932.05.02popularis : 3.326
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
release : 1929.08.10popularis : 6.546
Common Sense
Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he...
release : 1920.06.01popularis : 0.93
The Fifty-Fifty Girl
Strong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a...
release : 1928.05.12popularis : 1.248
Swim Girl, Swim
Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend,...
release : 1927.09.03popularis : 2.381
Head Winds
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
release : 1925.03.29popularis : 1.541
Red Hair
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also...
release : 1928.03.10popularis : 0.635
The Night Club
After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that...
release : 1925.04.26popularis : 2.122
The Return of the Vampire
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in...
release : 1943.11.11popularis : 5.878
A Tailor-Made Man
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...
release : 1931.03.28popularis : 1.981
High Society
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
release : 1932.07.27popularis : 0.685
National Velvet
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...
release : 1945.01.26popularis : 14.581
Redheads on Parade
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
release : 1935.09.07popularis : 0.851
Just Married
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
release : 1928.08.18popularis : 0.857
Illusion
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...
release : 1929.09.21popularis : 0.619
The Reckless Age
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick...
release : 1924.08.16popularis : 1.198
The Flaming Forest
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
release : 1926.11.21popularis : 0.555
Along Came Youth
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.
release : 1930.12.20popularis : 0.896
Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...
release : 1934.11.23popularis : 12.083
Swingin' on a Rainbow
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
release : 1945.09.01popularis : 1.214
Charley's Aunt
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 2.026
The Garden Murder Case
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major...
release : 1936.02.21popularis : 4.885
The Man from Blankley's
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
release : 1930.03.28popularis : 1.166
The Marriage Playground
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...
release : 1929.12.12popularis : 3.935
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
release : 1930.05.02popularis : 3.02