Eliot Makeham
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 22, 1882
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Head Over Heels
Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get herself in hot water with the French version of Actors' Equity and is forced to take a series of jobs under a series of assumed names. Meanwhile, a romantic triangle involving American film star Norma (Helen Whitney Bourne) and gangsters Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and Marcel (Louis Borrell) spells big trouble for all concerned -- including the plucky Jeanne. Highlighted by six sprightly song numbers, Head Over Heels in Love is our girl Jessie's vehicle all the way, and never mind the "main" plot. The film was directed by Sonnie Hale, who just so happened to be the star's husband.
All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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.
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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.
Night Train to Munich
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
The Crimson Pirate
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
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.
Filmography
as Uncle Brummell
as 1st Judge
as Valet
as Elderly Examiner
as Grandad Baden
as Consulate Official
as Edwards
as George
as Pawnbroker
as Gobernador de Mallorca
as Man in Dead Letter Office ('Strange Mr Bartleby') (uncredited)
as Governor
as Mr. Snedrig
as James Urquhart
as Jason
as Sexton
as Gimpy
as Pop Thompson
as Mr. Christie
as News Editor
as Sam Baxter
as Mr. Helliwell
as Mr. Walter Bigley
as Moult
as Bailey
as Theatre Usher
as Mr. Staines
as John Friar
as Bossi
as Vance's Songwriter (uncredited)
as Organist
as Dumka
as George - Davies' Valet
as Johnson
as Everard Hope
as Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene
as Abbé De Moor
as Town Clerk
as Mayor of Croydon
as Davis
as Secretary
as Inky
as Fuller
as Meek Man
as Schwab
as Simpson
as Stage Doorman
as Spy
as Pippermann
as Trufit
as Fred Grover
as Simmons
as Alexander Parkinson
as Professor Grayson
as Sir Philip's Gardener
as Jack the Pharmacist (uncredited)
as The Native Head Clerk
as Anatole Bergen
as Sheriff
as Martin
as Mr. Pullet
as Maj. Swayle
as Henry Blossom
as Prof. Gearing
as Hobday
as Stephen Harbord
as Music Professor
as Storekeeper
as Dr. Rudd
as Pip
as Dr. Bowdler
as Harold Drake
as John Fry
as Henry Jackson
as Mr. Wallis
as Bertie Pollard
as John Rutherford
as Mills