
Oliver Johnston
Actor · 1888 – 1966 · Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Movies23
Movie6.4HorrorDramaVerden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964 · 190 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceA Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967 · 203 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaA recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
A King in New York
1957 · 242 votes
Movie6.5ActionAdventureKidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
Kidnapped
1960 · 32 votes
Movie5.3AdventureTen years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
The Son of Robin Hood
1958 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeAfter falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
A Touch of Larceny
1960 · 17 votes
Movie6.2HorrorAfter a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
It!
1967 · 31 votes
Movie6.6CrimeThrillerA professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Nowhere to Go
1958 · 31 votes
Movie6.6ComedyRomanceAnna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Indiscreet
1958 · 207 votes
Movie6.3Comedy'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Raising the Wind
1961 · 11 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCon artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
Island of Love
1963 · 6 votes
Movie4.7MysteryA World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Movie6.1DramaCrimeA British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Dr. Crippen
1963 · 22 votes
Movie9.0WarHistoryA German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
The Siege of Manchester
1965 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Room in the House
1955 · 1 votes
Movie7.7HistoryDramaIn 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Francis of Assisi
1961 · 32 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA naïve Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
The Fast Lady
1962 · 22 votes
Movie5.9ComedyGerman scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies, he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton girl Ann Wainwright.
Bachelor of Hearts
1958 · 9 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Dangerous Voyage
1954 · 9 votes
Movie10.0CrimeA compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Tale of Three Women
1954 · 1 votes
Movie8.3CrimeThrillerKate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Kate Plus Ten
1938 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaAdapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Stolen Life
1939 · 3 votes
Movie5.3ThrillerCrimeCulver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
The Hypnotist
1957 · 6 votes
Series9
TV7.2DramaTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
- TVDrama
Thursday Theatre is a British television anthology programme produced by and aired on the BBC from 1964–1965. The productions ranged in duration from 75 to 95 minutes. Out of the 23 episodes, 13 are believed lost, and one is incomplete.
Thursday Theatre
1964
TV10.0Action & AdventureDramaPulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.
Espionage
1963 · 1 votes
- TV8.0
Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks in Dr. Who), and Elijah Baley was played by the late Peter Cushing. It also starred John Carson John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw and Kenneth J. Warren. The master tapes of the program were erased, however a few clips from the production have turned up in various documentaries about Isaac Asimov's work.
Story Parade
1964 · 1 votes
TV7.2CrimeDramaMichael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.
Man of the World
1962 · 5 votes
- TV10.0Drama
A kindly shop owner has overwhelming gambling debts. These allow his greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, the shop owner and his granddaughter flee.
The Old Curiosity Shop
1962 · 1 votes
TV6.7DramaSci-Fi & FantasySet in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.
The Quatermass Experiment
1953 · 16 votes
TVCrimeDramaA series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
On Trial
1960
TV5.0Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaBritish security agent Kronk and American private eye Phil Scrotty go up against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp.
The Corridor People
1966 · 3 votes