Fred Nicholas

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1The Long Arm

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

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#2On the Beat

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Police Constable (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
ComedyCrime

Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause

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#3Adam and Evelyne

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Detective (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

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#4Genevieve

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Police Constable (Uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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#5The Baby and the Battleship

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Officer

6.4 / 10
Comedy

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.

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#6Just My Luck

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Racegoer (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

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#7Who Done It?

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Police Constable in Gun Shop (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyCrime

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

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#8Trouble in Store

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Shopper / Shop Worker (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyFamily

Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

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#9Seven Thunders

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as German Explosives Officer

5.5 / 10
WarDrama

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

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#10The Love Match

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.7 / 10
Comedy

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.

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#11Take My Life

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Detective Kellett (Uncredited)

7.9 / 10
ThrillerCrime

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

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#12Police Dog

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.

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#13The Girl in the Picture

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as P.C. Martin (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
CrimeMystery

A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.

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#14Radio Cab Murder

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Detective at Briefing (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

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