Frank Birch

Actor · 1889 – 1956 · London, England, UK

Frank Birch was born on 5 December 1889 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Ashes (1930) and Le médecin malgré lui (1938). He was married to Hon. Vera Benedicta. He died on 14 February 1956 in London, England, UK.

Movies11

Movie5.6
DramaHistory
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Victoria the Great
1937 · 8 votes
Movie9.0
Comedy
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.5
CrimeDrama
A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
The Villiers Diamond
1938 · 3 votes
Movie6.3
Comedy
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953 · 6 votes
Movie6.3
RomanceAdventure
During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled Der Berg Ruft, shot the same year in German.
The Challenge
1938 · 9 votes
Movie5.7
AdventureCrime
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Jump for Glory
1937 · 3 votes
Movie5.8
CrimeThriller
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Face the Music
1954 · 13 votes
Movie7.0
Crime
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
Double Exposures
1937 · 3 votes
Movie7.0
War
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Who Goes Next?
1938 · 6 votes
Movie7.0
MusicDrama
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
The Insect Play
1939 · 1 votes
Movie9.0
Comedy
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
Love at Sea
1936 · 1 votes