Skelton Knaggs
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 27, 1911
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Rembrandt
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Bedlam
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Moonfleet
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
South Riding
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
The Lodger
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
A Scandal in Paris
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
The Spy in Black
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Just Before Dawn
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Filmography
as Jacob
as Little Man
as Gilly
as Hugo
as Pete
as X-Ray
as Rudolph
as Cousin Pierre
as Varney (uncredited)
as Louie (uncredited)
as Sands - Moran's Accomplice
as Steinmuhl
as Andrew Robbins (uncredited)
as Blue Gate Fields Waiter (Uncredited)
as Alf Perry, Cabman (uncredited)
as Man with Cart
as Paolo 'Finn' Lindstrom, the Mute
as Pub Patron in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
as Jeff
as Morgan
as Jesse Bixel
as German Sailor looking for Capt. Hardt
as Reg. Aythorne
as Fazerack
as Undetermined Secondary Rôle (uncredited)
as Young Man with Lantern