Robert English
Actor · 1874 – 1941 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Movies20
Movie7.0MusicBased on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Everything Is Rhythm
1936 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
Song of the Road
1937 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0Crime
A Commissionaire is suspected of a robbery committed by his son.
Commissionaire
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0DramaHistory
Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
Guy Fawkes
1923 · 1 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaA tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.
Out to Win
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaA man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.
The Secret of Stamboul
1936 · 2 votes
Movie4.9ComedyRomanceA prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
- 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
- Movie10.0DramaThriller
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
A Woman Redeemed
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.9CrimeMysteryAn eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
1940 · 8 votes
Movie10.0MysteryCrimePolice battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Educated Evans
1936 · 1 votes
Movie8.0MusicDramaAn east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Talking Feet
1937 · 2 votes
Movie5.6CrimeThrillerAn exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.
A Honeymoon Adventure
1931 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyOn a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television. The lives of several neurotic middle class couples are followed as they reflect on their relationships in the context of legalised divorce.
Separation Anxiety
1997 · 1 votes
Movie6.3MusicIn this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier finds out. The playboy is flat broke, but does the honorable thing. The newlyweds then board a ship and sail off to the States. They are accompanied by the girl's ex-fiance. The plan was for the young marrieds to get a divorce as soon as possible, but then the groom realizes that he really does love the girl. Happiness ensues
Honeymoon for Three
1935 · 5 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
The Fruitful Vine
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0AdventureDrama
When a British army officer, Harry Faversham, resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure for service in the Sudan he is sent four white feathers of cowardice by his comrades and fiancee. In an attempt to redeem himself, Faversham travels out to the Sudan where he saves the lives of his former comrades.
The Four Feathers
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Crime
A Lost Leader
1922 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaDevon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
The American Prisoner
1929 · 1 votes