Hay Petrie
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 16, 1895
Place of Birth: Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Known For
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.
The Wandering Jew
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Ten Days in Paris
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Contraband
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
The Thief of Bagdad
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
The Four Feathers
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
On Approval
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Filmography
as Herman's Servant
as Peck
as Clock Winder
as the barber
as Grimshaw, the Curio Shop Proprietor
as Uncle Pumblechook
as Tom
as Station Master
as Sir Henry Markham (uncredited)
as Fraser
as Woodcock
as Landlord
as Worker in Pagan's Office (uncredited)
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Phineas
as Talkative sailor at table
as Old General
as The Burgomaster
as Dr. Truscott
as Drunk
as Cathcart
as Railway Porter
as Procurator Fiscal
as Sebastian
as Minesweeper Skipper
as Benoit
as Nazi Pastor
as Axel Skold
as Britt
as Dr. Isidor Fosco
as Astrologer
as John Aloysius Evan
as Stephen Neale
as Hector Peter
as Engineer
as Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
as Mahdi Interpreter
as Old Dan
as Stage Door Keeper
as Station Master
as Robert Pigeon
as New York theatre manager
as Jeweller (uncredited)
as Orlando
as The McLaggen
as Professor
as Cascal
as Periteau
as Mr. Rich
as New York Manager
as Spy
as Quilp
as French Ambassador
as Waiter
as Jevons
as Farmhand
as Merchant (Phase III)
as Mr. Clappit
as The King's Barber (uncredited)
as Photographer
as Tiberius Cavallo
as Director
as Remenado
as Scotty
as Scruffy