Date of birth: 1896-02-09
Place of birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles Victor Harvey


1957-06-13
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign cou

1943-03-01
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players

1950-10-03
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the

1947-04-10
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a siniste

1954-06-20
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no

1955-12-01
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic bi

1965-06-09
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and

1956-11-27
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used

1953-10-12
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

1940-05-11
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spie
1939-01-11
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

1952-11-01
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires

1943-10-25
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the lis

1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char

1951-07-02
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

1952-03-01
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

1942-09-01
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-lovin

1954-07-01
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

1951-06-11
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugha

1956-01-01
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf

1948-04-14
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier.

1947-06-02
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he b

1943-12-07
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew af
1944-07-28
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor w

1945-04-17
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Bri

1943-07-26
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activi

1953-02-01
The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are tryi

1952-11-24
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

1942-03-01
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an a

1947-02-27
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa

1951-05-07
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortuna

1956-09-10
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her se

1946-09-12
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, wi

1956-09-04
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it t

1956-05-01
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a uni

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

1954-01-30
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres

1943-10-11
Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is

1940-03-09
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his

1940-03-09
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his
1939-12-16
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.

1942-06-22
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent th

1953-02-17
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England.

1957-08-13
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

1941-12-08
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies,

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

1953-04-10
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, wher

1953-03-17
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th

1953-11-16
Sometimes listed as a horror film, the British Girl on the Pier is a Spartan little melodrama starri

1941-09-06
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic b

1941-11-10
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for

1957-03-01
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being

1941-11-24
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c

1941-05-14
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels

1941-06-23
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the inte

1945-09-30
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She pe

1953-06-01
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.

1943-10-18
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans
1940-07-27
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kit

1945-06-16
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri

1949-09-30
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis

1941-07-22
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well App

1955-05-01
When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become

1946-07-15
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard o

1945-12-06
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides

1949-02-01
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land,

1942-06-02
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (re

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

1956-08-14
After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads fo

1945-07-20
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neag

1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a

1953-10-09
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps t

1949-12-29
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r

1945-12-11
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

1944-06-01
Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.

1943-08-11
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into

1942-06-15
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the wal

1954-02-10
Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatc

1943-01-11
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

1941-04-11
Old Mother Riley starts a new business.

1946-11-25
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's ro

1947-02-01
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to ma

1943-06-16
The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation

1955-08-09
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to t

1943-05-16
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)

1950-11-07
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

1954-05-27
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next ch

1953-11-30
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

1948-07-05
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer prove

1953-06-14
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
1947-02-10
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1942-08-11
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill

1952-07-09
A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of