Harry Terry
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 1, 1887
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.
Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
"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 Broken Melody
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
The Laughing Lady
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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.
Fame Is the Spur
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Boys in Brown
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
The Citadel
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Filmography
as Gypsy (uncredited)
as Man on Dock (uncredited)
as Borstal Master
as Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)
as Man Outside Taxi Garage (uncredited)
as Watchman
as Irish Smuggler (uncredited)
as Park Keeper
as Mick
as Workman (uncredited)
as Bill
as Delivery Man
as SS Guard (uncredited)
as Bill
as Camp Guard
as Court Police Officer
as Customer In Public Bar (uncredited)
as Sailor
as Narky
as Miner
as Street Orator
as Brewery Worker
as (uncredited)
as Man Outside Stadium (uncredited)
as The Face at the Window
as Race Card Seller / Slush Passer
as Released Convict (Uncredited)
as Miner (uncredited)
as A Furniture Thief
as Ted
as Crew Member
as Mechanic
as Henri
as Man at the Gate
as Gregg
as No. 16
as Toothpick Jeff
as Bert
as Boatswain Knapps
as Winkleburg
as Publican
as Man (uncredited)
as Bosco
as The Showman