Date of birth: 1885-01-19
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Аллан Джейес, Аллан Джийес


1939-04-20
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
1934-01-01
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)

1938-12-01
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to

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

1949-08-03
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

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

1921-08-01
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the linea

1937-03-12
In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elep

1948-10-04
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover

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

1957-09-15
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabb

1936-06-01
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice
1939-01-11
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

1936-12-01
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gen

1937-11-11
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief w

1943-04-05
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French

1932-06-28
A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutua

1935-12-04
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Lan

1935-01-01
This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of

1936-11-12
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambition

1937-08-23
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

1945-09-09
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his rec

1935-05-16
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's
1950-05-01
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer
1939-06-28
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing,

1934-10-08
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smuggler

1937-07-21
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.

1931-09-22
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a

1925-11-01
Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.

1939-02-21
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u

1935-12-31
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is

1936-08-03
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She o

1938-09-30
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.

1933-12-04
'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.'

1937-10-20
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the s

1940-06-15
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife wh

1940-09-28
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America a

1940-04-06
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the

1940-02-19
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th

1940-10-12
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organi

1936-11-01
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone

1937-07-23
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins.
1933-06-01
A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open.[
1933-01-01
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
1939-01-01
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for su
1938-07-23
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture th

1941-07-28
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology st

1941-03-01
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and,

1941-05-17
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (G

1932-07-11
In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
1931-10-01
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.

1929-12-01
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notoriou
1918-01-02
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.

1940-04-26
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to

1948-02-19
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury fami

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

1950-07-26
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, w

1940-12-14
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their m

1934-02-09
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Gr

1934-06-17
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in fi

1943-12-15
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding

1936-03-31
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s

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

1941-02-08
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through perfor

1945-10-15
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

1938-01-01
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections o

1938-09-21
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's
1921-04-01
Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a

1934-12-20
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the

1935-05-10
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles

1947-05-19
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

1938-12-01
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
1933-07-01
1921-06-01