Peter Gawthorne
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Peter Gawthorne.
Born: August 31, 1884
Place of Birth: Queen's County, Ireland
Known For
Kind Hearts and Coronets
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Flying Fifty-Five
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
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.
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.
Ask a Policeman
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
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.
I Thank You
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
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.
Where's That Fire
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
"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.
Filmography
as Bowman
as Sir Frederick (segment "Thief of London' story)
as Mortimer Harvey
as Sir Graham Forbes
as James Gregson
as Father Shaney
as First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
as Mr. Justice Lopes
as Businessman
as Crossley's Guest
as Adm. Sir William Coltham
as Counsel
as Admiral
as Major Shiptonthorpe
as RAF Officer
as Dr. Pope
as Senior RAF Officer (uncredited)
as Sidimir Koslowski
as Police Supt
as Colonel
as Commanding Officer
as General Bullington
as Bit Role (uncredited)
as Claude Pilkington
as Commissionaire
as Sir John
as Army General (uncredited)
as Fire Chief
as Jonas Urquhart
as Chief Constable
as Chancellor
as Conray
as Sir Cyril
as Sir Herbert Tompkin
as Joshua Gibson
as Court Martial President
as Assistant Commissioner Sir Brian Moore
as Chairman of Steel Company
as Col. Willougby-Gore
as Bit Role (uncredited)
as Lord Slade
as Sir James Alroyd
as Mr. Higgins
as Mr. Barton
as Kadir Pasha
as A.D. Newall
as Police Inspector
as Staff Colonel
as Mr. Hatch
as Inspector Barlow
as Duke of Richmond
as Col. Fairley
as Mr. Paraday
as Lord Fairdown
as Butler
as Ferguson, the Butler
as Lord Southcliff
as Mr. Brown
as Inspector Duff
as Griggs
as Parker
as Marrhews
as Lake the Butler
as Mr. Bixby
as General Ettingen