Date of birth: 1888-08-27
Place of birth: Manchester, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Edward Rogers, John "Pegleg" Rogers

1943-12-01
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric

1936-08-07
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound

1942-10-23
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all

1944-12-22
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea

1937-06-30
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

1937-09-24
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector

1945-08-21
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she be

1929-06-30
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered

1938-09-17
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

1936-02-21
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

1937-07-23
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow

1930-07-11
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has d

1934-12-11
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seam

1934-08-15
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi

1944-11-18
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who

1935-10-25
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit

1934-03-15
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar.

1930-02-02
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the

1930-08-12
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.

1934-01-19
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted hi

1947-05-30
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckil

1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs

1938-11-25
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard an

1934-09-12
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits exe

1931-04-11
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings in

1933-02-08
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-

1936-04-19
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Fost

1945-02-07
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi

1940-06-30
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and

1936-07-10
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h

1952-06-13
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf

1944-01-19
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo

1939-09-22
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the

1940-12-21
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

1940-05-16
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they ru

1934-07-20
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in lov

1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th

1941-05-16
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a bea

1938-02-04
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

1930-09-21
George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.

1944-05-11
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m

1942-11-27
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a

1931-12-24
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He bel

1931-07-02
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film

1942-05-12
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF servi

1941-06-13
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav

1951-10-17
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row,

1941-04-17
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of

1940-12-24
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hu