Date of birth: 1893-03-19
Place of birth: Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Francis Lawrence Atkinson, Francis Lawrence "Frank" Atkinson


1963-05-09
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby

1934-12-01
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attemp

1937-12-01
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has

1946-07-04
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her

1937-01-01
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a

1935-02-11
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

1954-12-01
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motor

1956-05-22
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

1942-07-03
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf

1935-02-25
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship w

1956-10-01
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
1946-01-08
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is f
1942-05-18
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition

1931-04-16
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with hi

1933-03-17
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promise

1933-04-01
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruis

1931-11-13
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and

1935-07-22
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

1935-11-01
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

1959-06-23
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservativ

1957-09-01
A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a fam

1932-01-29
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

1961-08-14
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microco

1939-10-12
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire.

1953-01-10
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
1934-11-29
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine

1932-07-16
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey da

1935-08-13
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demo

1953-09-25
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with

1934-11-26
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly fail

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

1957-06-01
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flatter

1934-06-12
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old fri

1933-01-01
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to

1939-06-29
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

1940-01-22
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better su

1940-06-01
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in

1954-11-01
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a

1932-11-24
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out,

1954-10-18
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so fa

1934-10-29
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing
1934-10-08
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of los
1935-05-06
British comedy film directed by Max Mack

1932-07-16
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his

1933-01-01
A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical

1942-10-12
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders port

1956-05-16
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc

1932-05-15
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a busines

1936-03-18
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, g

1939-10-27
A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are imme

1946-12-26
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa

1951-08-07
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dir

1943-05-23
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary

1955-02-10
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died o

1943-05-17
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sherida

1946-06-17
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist th

1932-03-26
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich

1945-07-09
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with
1945-04-08
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing edito

1959-04-28
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murd

1942-06-29
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t

1945-02-05
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft

1953-03-04
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of loc

1958-08-01
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her

1938-10-06
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Dooli

1958-02-18
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled

1936-04-26
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at
1937-04-01
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton F
1935-05-01
1934-08-20
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barbe
1936-05-19
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.

1932-12-04
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

1942-08-11
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill

1939-09-30
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed.

1942-11-09
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal angu

1957-11-14
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre

1960-11-03
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crook
1940-01-15
A hypochondriac misunderstands a telephone conversation, and believes he has only two days to live.