Cyril Smith
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 3, 1892
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Scotland, UK
Known For
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.
St. Martin's Lane
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
The Last Journey
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
School for Secrets
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
They Made Me a Fugitive
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Value for Money
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Romance on the High Seas
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
The Rocking Horse Winner
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.
Watch It, Sailor!
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Filmography
as Sam
as Ticket Collector
as Henry Hornett
as 'Spinner' Rice
as Merlin
as Henry Hornett
as Man
as Writ Server (uncredited)
as Ticket Inspector
as Stage Manager
as Alf Quinney
as Perce
as Flinton
as Hotel Porter
as Det. Sgt. Roper
as Alf Bixby, Innkeeper
as Reporter
as Hubert Hewitt
as Station Master
as Man at Nightclub Bar (uncredited)
as Detective Horton
as Samuel Denny
as Maltby
as Sergeant
as bailiff
as Publican
as Detective Inspector
as Fred Hobson
as English Bartender (uncredited)
as Second Ticket Collector
as Joe
as Bert
as Flight Sgt. Cox
as Det. Sgt. Charlie Weeks
as P.C. Morgan
as Talent Show Winner
as Belford
as Dunham
as Joe
as Publican (uncredited)
as Fred Dyson
as Aquitania Radio Operator
as Tiser
as Barber
as Det. Sgt. Trotter
as Maggs
as Black Face
as Customs Officer
as Councillor
as Steward
as Postal Sorter
as Duke
as Corporal Fox
as William Brown, Jr.
as Alf Higgins
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Herb Brown
as Fred, the Driver
as McNair
as Gossiping Villager
as Magistrate
as Courtier
as Gangster
as The Tramp
as Lord Howard Cecil
as Lord Howard Cecil