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John Adams

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1922-01-01

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#1The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Constable (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiDrama

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.

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#2Carry On Spying

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Gate Security (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

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#3I'm All Right Jack

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Constable (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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#4Danger Within

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as German Officer (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
War

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

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#5The Blue Lamp

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as PC at Darts Match (Uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeThrillerAction

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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#6Park Plaza 605

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Police Driver (uncredited)

4.7 / 10
DramaCrimeComedy

Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.

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#7One Good Turn

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Constable in Theatre (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

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#8Two-Way Stretch

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Police Inspector (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ComedyCrime

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.

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#9Pool of London

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Plainclothes Policeman in Squad Car (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

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#10On the Beat

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Detective (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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#11Innocent Sinners

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Police Constable

7.5 / 10
Drama

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

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#12A Stitch in Time

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Sunshine Ball Guest (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
Comedy

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

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#13The Horse's Mouth

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Police Officer (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

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#14Who Done It?

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Detective at Uralian Legation (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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#15The Truth About Women

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

6.2 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

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#16Up in the World

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Policeman (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

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#17Just My Luck

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Constable (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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#18The 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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#19The Depraved

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Man Discovering Crashed Car (uncredited)

4.5 / 10
DramaThrillerCrime

Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.

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#20Paul Temple Returns

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Police Constable

6.1 / 10
MysteryCrime

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.

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#21The End of the Line

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Police Constable (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

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