Randle Ayrton
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 9, 1869
Place of Birth: Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For
Nell Gwyn
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
The Manxman
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Me and Marlborough
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
A Romance of Seville
Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!
Chu-Chin-Chow
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
The Great Game
Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
The Feather
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
Comets
A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
Two Worlds
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Dreyfus
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Filmography
as Captain Turner
as King Louis XIV
as President, Dreyfus Court Martial
as Himself
as Henderson
as Simon Goldscheider
as Captain MacDonnell
as Rizzio
as Estavian
as Caesar Cregeen
as Charles II
as Kasim Baba
as Ricciardo