Frederick Leister
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Frederick Leister.
Born: December 1, 1885
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Rx Murder
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Over several decades throughout 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.
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.
Footsteps in the Fog
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
The Gentle Sex
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Forbidden
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
Cone of Silence
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
Interpol Calling
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
Filmography
as Judge
as Aide to King Pavel II
as Sir Henry
as Sir Isaac Spendler
as himself
as Doctor Alexander
as Capt. Andrew Ogden
as Reform Club Member (uncredited)
as Dr. Simpson
as Committee Member
as Dr Collingwood
as Dr. Elder
as Sir John
as Rev. Alan Woodbridge
as Prime Minister
as Sir Edward Carteret
as Sebastian
as Col. Gill
as Sir James Ferguson
as Police Commissioner
as Judge
as Admiral
as The Director General
as Wainer
as The Vicar
as Dr. Franklin
as Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")
as Judge
as Magistrate
as Henry Errington
as John Channing
as Mr. Mowbray
as Captain Blood
as Mark Overend
as Hampton
as Mr. Villier
as Colonel Lawrence
as Mr. Hastropp
as Lord Auckland
as Colonel
as James Morison
as Mr. Vincent
as Lord Melbourne
as Inspector
as Marsham
as Joseph Sturdee
as Herbert H. Asquith
as Tarade
as Diamond Buyer
as O.B. Dalton
as Vice Consul
as King of Prussia
as Emperor FranzJosef
as Inspector Manning
as Edgar Demange
as Slim Symes