
Peter Reynolds
Actor · 1921 – 1975 · Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK
Peter Reynolds was a British film and television actor.
Movies24
Movie4.4HorrorCrimeA famed concert pianist's hands are destroyed in a plane crash; when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer.
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · 9 votes
Movie6.5DramaNow old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
The Magic Box
1952 · 25 votes
Movie6.5ActionDramaIn 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 · 28 votes
Movie7.1DramaA working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
The Guinea Pig
1948 · 17 votes
Movie5.5DramaThrillerJailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
The Challenge
1960 · 10 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyA handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Adam and Evelyne
1949 · 8 votes
Movie5.2Science FictionHorrorEight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Devil Girl from Mars
1954 · 56 votes
Movie5.8CrimeDramaAn American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.
The Long Haul
1957 · 29 votes
Movie7.5CrimeNovelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
You Can't Escape
1956 · 2 votes
Movie8.0RomanceDramaThe organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
The Woman's Angle
1952 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaA compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952 · 5 votes
Movie5.9DramaCrimeA married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
The Last Page
1952 · 25 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaBecause she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
Wrong Number
1959 · 4 votes
Movie8.0A wealthy art collector and his wife have their property broken into in this strange, awkward comedy. Little does the thief realize, but the most prized artwork in the collection is protected by a small guillotine. He loses his hand and is then blackmailed into robbing an art dealer, who earlier in the film refused to sell a statue of an eagle.
Private Collection
1973 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeThree tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Movie5.8CrimeThrillerA young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
The Breaking Point
1961 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaIt is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Spare the Rod
1961 · 5 votes
Movie9.0ComedyCrimeA young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Smart Alec
1951 · 3 votes
Movie4.5ComedyNewly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money...
Your Money or Your Wife
1960 · 6 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeIn Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
West 11
1963 · 14 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaPeter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
The Delavine Affair
1955 · 8 votes
Movie6.5CrimeA third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
The Bank Raiders
1958 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ThrillerJo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
The Painted Smile
1962 · 13 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaA woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950 · 7 votes
Series5
TV7.8Action & AdventureCrimeA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Avengers
1961 · 156 votes
TV6.8Action & AdventureThe Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
The Adventures of William Tell
1958 · 4 votes
TV9.0Action & AdventureFamilyA kid-friendly take on the exploits of King Richard the Lion Heart, from his participation in the Crusades, to his capture in Austria, to his final return to England.
Richard the Lionheart
1962 · 1 votes
- TV10.0Action & AdventureCrime
The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion sidekick Orlando, waitress Halina, and local cop Colonel Mahmoud.
Crane
1963 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Anthology series of plays where various disparate characters meet in the city of London.
They Met in a City
1961 · 1 votes