O.B. Clarence
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 25, 1870
Place of Birth: London, England
Known For
Falling for You
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Meet Me at Dawn
A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she is in fact the daughter of the paper's proprietor if only he knew it.
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.
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.
Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Filmography
as Old Gentleman at Epsom
as Mr. Woodhouse
as Vicar
as Ambassador
as Old Gentleman
as The Aged Parent
as Old Retainer
as Egyptian (uncredited)
as Perkins
as Dr. Graham
as Lord Cecil
as Mr. Dawson
as Waiter with Tray of Wine
as Professor Mackenzie
as Pettigrew (uncredited)
as Sir Robert McFarland, the First Magistrate
as Sir Archibald
as Medical Officer
as Mr. Truscott
as Prof. John Dearborn (voice)
as Guest at Reception (uncredited)
as Coach Passenger (uncredited)
as Waiter
as Sir Philip's Gardener
as Mr. Birchwood
as De Marre
as Coachman-in-Chief
as Mr. Gore
as Osmin
as Registrar
as Monterosa
as Thomas Marsland
as Ogleby
as Sir John Barrett
as Council Member
as Count de Tournay
as Nelson
as Mr. Hammond
as Clockmaker
as Mr. Young
as Clerk
as Etienne
as Trubshawe
as Dr. Graham
as Dr. Peffer
as Timkins
as Theater Manager
as Watchman
as John Larwood