Sydney Howard
Actor · 1884 – 1946 · Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Movies22
Movie7.0ComedyThe Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
When We Are Married
1943 · 1 votes
Movie4.6MysteryComedyUnderworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934 · 8 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.
Splinters in the Air
1937 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
1941 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Up for the Derby
1933 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
The Mayor's Nest
1932 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMusicAn insurance agent poses as a king's double and saves him from anarchists.
It's a King
1932 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
It's a Cop
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)
Night of the Garter
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0ComedyCrime
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Chick
1936 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0
A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
Where’s George?
1935 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
Up for the Cup
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyTo celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
Splinters in the Navy
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0MusicComedySplinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.
Splinters
1929 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMusicA lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.
Shipyard Sally
1939 · 3 votes
- MovieComedyMusic
An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife. She stands up to his tantrums and supersedes his wife in his affections.
- Movie10.0Comedy
Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement.
What a Man!
1939 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Crime
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
Once a Crook
1941 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Comedy'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
Almost a Divorce
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDuring World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
French Leave
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
Tilly of Bloomsbury
1931 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
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Fame
1936 · 1 votes