Noel Dainton

Acting
1894-03-24
Hampstead, London, England

Biography

Noel Dainton was an English actor.

Known For & Full Filmography21 Titles

#1Spring Handicap

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Police Constable

7.5 / 10
Comedy

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

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#2The Saint's Vacation

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Commissaire (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

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#3The Squeaker

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Police Inspector (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
RomanceCrimeDrama

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

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#4The Star Reporter

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m as Colonel

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to Lady Susan Loman in the hope of witnessing high-society goings-on which he can use in a feature article he is planning.

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#5Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Corporal

7.4 / 10
Crime

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.

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#6Time Flies

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?

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#7Twilight Hour

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Chauffeur

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#8The Peterville Diamond

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Second Detective Inspector

5.8 / 10
Comedy

Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

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#9English Without Tears

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Footman (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Comedy

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams

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#10Shipyard Sally

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Receptionist at Argyle Club

5.7 / 10
ComedyMusic

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.

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#11Medal for the General

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Captain (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
WarDrama

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

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#12Ask a Policeman

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Revenue Officer

7.4 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#13Much Too Shy

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Comedy

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

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#14The Echo Murders

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Van Schuster

6.3 / 10
Thriller

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

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#15Tower of Terror

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
Thriller

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...

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#16Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Officer Steele of the Bow Street Runners

5.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.

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#17Headline

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Senior Employee at Jeweller's Shop (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

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#18Band Waggon

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Saboteur (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ComedyMusic

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

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#19Warn That Man

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Police Inspector

5.6 / 10
WarComedyThriller

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.

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#20Dreaming

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!

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#21Somewhere on Leave

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Capt. Delvaine

7.0 / 10
WarComedy

Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.

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