Maud Gill
Actor · 1885 – 1950 · Bayswater, London, England, UK
Maud Gill was an English stage and screen character actress, usually cast in comic roles.
Movies12
Movie5.6ComedyDramaSuccessful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
The Farmer's Wife
1928 · 91 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceBecause his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Aren't We All?
1932 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMusicGutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Look Up and Laugh
1935 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaA girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Under the Greenwood Tree
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0ComedyDrama
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
The Chance of a Night Time
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaBritish drama centered on a mother's desperate attempts to save her daughter's failing marriage as the film explores family loyalty, domestic conflict, and the social pressures surrounding divorce during the early 1930s.
Such Is the Law
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaAn Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Not For Sale
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Excess Baggage
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0CrimeDrama
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
The Crime at Blossoms
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
A Sister to Assist 'Er
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyWhen financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
Mischief
1931 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
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