Charles Paton
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 31, 1874
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Night and the City
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Fortune in Diamonds
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Inspector Hornleigh
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
"Pimpernel" Smith
Eccentric 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.
The W Plan
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Rembrandt
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
The Goose Steps Out
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Filmography
as Barman
as Registrar
as Mr. Lamb
as Watchman (uncredited)
as Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)
as Mr. Dickens, the Grocer
as Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietor
as uncredited
as Mine Host
as Old Man
as On the Kiosk (uncredited)
as Guest at Ball (uncredited)
as Railway Clerk
as Councillor (uncredited)
as Auctioneer's Assistant (uncredited)
as Ernie Brooks
as (uncredited)
as Mr. Bishop
as Passenger Arrested on Train
as Steinhof
as Handwriting Expert (Uncredited)
as Chemist (Uncredited)
as Simion (uncredited)
as Mr. Briggs
as Tobacco Shop Proprietor
as Platform Speaker (uncredited)
as Auction Bidder
as Foreman of the Jury
as Family Solicitor
as Guest at Official Dinner (uncredited)
as Mr. Webster
as Burgher at Auction (uncredited)
as The Mayor
as Man Holding Dogs (uncredited)
as Taxi Driver
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
as Sanders
as Gamp
as Pa
as Farmer
as Bus Passenger
as Samuel Faraday Rickforth
as Professor Black
as Sam Small
as Innkeeper
as Prof. Winthrop
as Jude Sterling
as George Didier
as Grindle
as J.J. Godfrey
as Thistlethwaite
as Defence Counsel
as Professor Vivian
as Mr. White
as Doorman (uncredited)