Wally Patch
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 26, 1888
Place of Birth: Willesden, Middlesex, England, UK
Known For
I See Ice
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
A Matter of Life and Death
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
George in Civvy Street
George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in love with her.
Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Tell England
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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.
Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Till Death Us Do Part
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Alf's Button Afloat
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
Filmography
as Pub Customer
as Grandad
as Man in Saloon
as Grandad
as Totter
as Prisoner
as Bar Manager
as Tom Pike
as Watchman
as Factory Gatekeeper
as Barman
as Newspaperman
as Ticket Collector
as Whelk Seller
as Ticket Collector
as Workman
as Sergeant / Court Usher (uncredited)
as Fred
as Landlord
as Bookmaker
as Bert Ebbutt
as Bert Ebbutt
as Police Officer 'Tiny' White
as Heckler in Theatre (uncredited)
as BBC Commissionaire (uncredited)
as Uncle
as Uncle Percy
as Spider Williams
as Bookie (uncredited)
as The Guy
as Man in the Cap
as Foreman
as Dawson
as Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
as Sprout
as Merry-Go-Round Barker
as Joe Fisher
as Det Sgt. Carp
as Tom
as Sgt. Joe Preston
as Sergeant Clinton
as Police Constable
as Uncle Fred
as Tom (the steward)
as Sam
as Taxi Driver at Victoria Station
as Sgt. Brownfoot
as Charlie Peters
as Bob Sutton
as Briggs
as 'Nobby'
as Bill The Fireman
as Evans
as Sergeant Major
as Third Magistrate
as Sgt Major
as Bargee
as Fisherman (uncredited)
as The Buller
as Commisssionaire
as Night Watchman
as Sergeant
as Bugsie
as Police Sergeant
as Mr. Albert Suggs
as Sam Holt
as Taxi Driver
as First Bystander
as Sergt. Hawkins
as Train Conductor
as Arthur
as Unlucky Joe
as Collyer's Bo'sun
as Crawford
as Alf Higgins
as Policeman
as Sgt. Maj. Billings
as Thug
as Gallery Attendant
as Supt. Smithnells
as Hurricane Harry
as Trout
as Villars
as Andrew Purvis
as Revels In His Part
as Police Constable Topping
as Syd Parrott
as George
as Sergeant
as Wally
as Inspector Briggs
as Buck
as Price the Trainer
as Detective Sergeant George
as Butcher in Kitchen (uncredited)
as Harry
as Jorkins
as Joe
as Bill Hainton
as Cripps
as Sergeant
as Van Driver (uncredited)
as Panama Pete
as Ford
as Bookie
as Joe Miller
as Peace League Commissionaire
as Seaman
as Private Bill Riggers
as Sergeant
as Property Man
as Andrews