Charles Rolfe
Actor · 1885 – 1965 · Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Movies24
Movie7.4MysteryThrillerOn a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · 1.1K votes
Movie7.0WarThrillerIn the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
49th Parallel
1941 · 129 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAt the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · 59 votes
Movie7.1AdventureDramaEccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · 32 votes
Movie5.6DramaWarA tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Convoy
1940 · 15 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerMysteryAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Cottage to Let
1941 · 23 votes
Movie5.0DramaWarLots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
The Next of Kin
1942 · 10 votes
Movie6.2ComedyFantasyA young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
Miranda
1948 · 27 votes
Movie6.5DramaDavey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
The Stars Look Down
1940 · 29 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
High Treason
1951 · 11 votes
Movie6.0CrimeThriller“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
They Drive by Night
1938 · 17 votes
Movie7.2MysteryDuring a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939 · 12 votes
- Movie10.0Fantasy
A young Victorian couple spends time with the wife's aunt, who behaves as if her late husband were still alive, and his ghostly voice is heard.
Colonel Bogey
1948 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerWhen a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Dear Murderer
1947 · 22 votes
Movie7.5ComedyWill Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Windbag the Sailor
1936 · 12 votes
Movie6.8AdventureCrimeA man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
The Man Within
1947 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyScience FictionThe Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Time Flies
1944 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.
A Girl in a Million
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.3ComedyShades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Cheer Boys Cheer
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.8CrimeIn this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Crime on the Hill
1933 · 2 votes
Movie6.6WarDramaFilm in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
MovieActionDramaWhen Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.
Movie6.0ComedyMysteryCharters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
Crook's Tour
1940 · 15 votes
MovieDocumentaryCoventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.
A City Reborn
1945
Series1
- TVDrama
Gentle clergyman Septimus Harding's comfortable life as warden of a charity is upended by a public scandal over his income, a controversy fueled by a young reformer, John Bold, who is also in love with Harding's daughter, Eleanor.
The Warden
1951