Phyllis Morris
Actor · 1893 – 1982 · Walthamstow, London, England, UK
Movies24
Movie7.4DramaRomanceThroughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · 142 votes
Movie7.5WarDramaGeneral Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · 278 votes
Movie6.6WarComedyIn a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
The Devil's Disciple
1959 · 44 votes
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceJulia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
Julia Misbehaves
1948 · 12 votes
Movie7.1DramaLondon, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
Mandy
1952 · 34 votes
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerMary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
Kind Lady
1951 · 12 votes
Movie4.9CrimeHorrorThe son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951 · 12 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceSoames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
That Forsyte Woman
1949 · 14 votes
Movie7.2CrimeDramaA Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Violent Playground
1958 · 23 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaWhen his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.
Police Dog
1955 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceFollowing World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
My Own True Love
1948 · 2 votes
Movie6.7WarDramaBorneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
Three Came Home
1950 · 27 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Top Secret
1952 · 2 votes
Movie7.0AdventureFamilyA little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Adventure in the Hopfields
1954 · 4 votes
- Movie6.0ActionAdventure
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerCrimeEd Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
Seven Sinners
1936 · 12 votes
Movie7.3ComedyClassic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
I Thank You
1941 · 7 votes
Movie6.2RomanceWarBritish Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. Tartu makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory of its manufacturing.
The Adventures of Tartu
1943 · 18 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaA barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
On the Night of the Fire
1939 · 10 votes
MovieDocumentaryWartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
Movie10.0TV MovieHorrorA asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the Count and is led back to his cell. Dr. Van Helsing is called to consult on the case. Hypnotized, the patient recounts events in Transylvania, including an attack by Dracula's brides…
Dracula
1968 · 2 votes
Movie6.3CrimeThrillerA talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Lord Edgware Dies
1934 · 7 votes
- Movie4.6Drama
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Read All About It
1945 · 9 votes
Movie7.3Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
The Embezzler
1954 · 3 votes
Series4
TV5.8DramaMysteryMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · 5 votes
- TV9.0
The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world.
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957 · 1 votes
- TV
Our Miss Pemberton is a British television programme which aired on the BBC from 1957 to 1958. A drama, it was about life in a small town. All 56 episodes were broadcast live and no telerecordings appear to have survived, leaving them lost.
TV8.0DramaAfter a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre
1956 · 1 votes