Date of birth: 1897-10-07
Place of birth: Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky


1934-07-31
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to nego

1931-04-28
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

1931-08-24
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play

1954-06-08
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two

1940-08-31
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent

1936-09-02
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the atte

1944-08-25
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival m

1961-12-01
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-mart

1934-11-01
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadca

1930-10-22
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)

1957-12-12
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring

1935-04-15
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the firs

1936-12-01
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an

1961-03-26
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of gro

1939-07-28
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris

1934-05-15
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

1961-11-01
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're

1959-04-29
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

1930-08-28
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an

1935-06-01
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body

1955-01-01
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.

1936-08-24
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

1937-07-23
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins.

1940-09-01
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carbu

1957-03-12
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboa

1930-02-25
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talk

1942-01-19
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early y

1948-09-06
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet co

1935-03-28
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspirati

1956-04-09
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

1931-07-16
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. W

1942-01-05
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat ca

1940-09-07
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his s
1944-04-10
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the Br

1930-02-05
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
1932-03-21
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
1932-03-16
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

1935-03-26
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a
1932-06-28
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

1936-05-08
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wea

1937-07-02
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl

1950-05-31
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both

1946-05-20
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an

1939-11-03
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant ef

1943-01-01
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is sh

1933-12-15
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the

1965-12-26
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims

1937-01-08
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly

1957-12-03
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per

1961-12-01
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-

1936-11-06
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600

1960-09-29
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.

1959-03-10
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island.

1948-01-22
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w

1942-09-21
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit

1940-07-06
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of fo

1935-12-28
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offe
1936-01-01
Mendoza, who had an affair with the star of the original production of La Vie parisienne in 1900, re
1957-07-17
1957 BBC Television production of Ivor Novello’s musical featuring Vanessa Lee, reprising the role o

1962-03-05
Two cadets are set an outrageous and wacky initiation test to prove their suitability for officer tr