John Slater
Popularity:0.085
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1916-08-22
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
Homepage:
Also Known As:

Passport to Pimlico (1949)
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

The Flanagan Boy (1953)
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great...

Went the Day Well? (1942)
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 10 (1949)
The 22nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, unusually featuring a single article: 'Replanning a Coalfield'.

Mining Review 7th Year No. 8 (1954)
The 80th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Anthracite Field', 'Time Out', 'Bowhill On Top' and 'Ideas Man'.

Mining Review 10th Year No. 8 (1957)
The 118th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the article 'Hungarians in Britain', 'Double Dutch', 'Pulsed Infusion' and 'Songs...

Against the Wind (1948)
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

Operation Malaya (1953)
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

The Million Pound Note (1954)
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Escape (1948)
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

Noose (1948)
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...

The Long Memory (1953)
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

Violent Playground (1958)
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

Uncensored (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...

For Those in Peril (1944)
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

The Promise (1952)
A much loved Prison Missioner has died. His replacement struggles to live up to his predecessor's saintly reputation until he receives inspiration...

Strange Stories (1953)
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

A Place to Go (1963)
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

Prelude to Fame (1950)
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes...

A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Undercover (1943)
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...

The Ringer (1952)
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

Murder in Reverse? (1945)
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

The Faithful City (1952)
The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of...

John Wesley (1954)
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film...

Johnny, You're Wanted (1956)
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee,...

Mining Review 16th Year No. 6 (1963)
The 186th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the article 'A story from South Wales', about the closure of unproductive pits...

Nothing Barred (1961)
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture,...

Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember? (1955)
The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5 (1950)
Another edition of the industry cinemagazine, featuring three film articles. Pipeline to Pimlico: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local...

Three on a Spree (1961)
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...

Thark (1957)
As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush...

The Third Visitor (1951)
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a...

Shunter Black's Night Off (1941)
Short war time film about the daily activities of Shunter Trains in British Railway Yards and their importance and contribution to the war effort.

They Flew Alone (1942)
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...

Star of India (1954)
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back...

The Common Touch (1941)
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want...

'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his...

Love on the Dole (1941)
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

Deadlock (1943)
A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.

Unpublished Story (1942)
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Hot Summer Night (1959)
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black...

Millions Like Us (1943)
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean...

The New Lot (1943)
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

The Seventh Veil (1945)
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2 (1945)
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Read All About It (1945)
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

The Night We Got the Bird (1960)
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

Our Film (1942)
A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value...

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

The Yellow Hat (1966)
When an exclusive designer hat blows off the head of the milliner's assistant who borrowed it, the quest to recover it leads her to find love.

The Devil's Pass (1957)
Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his...

Giants of Steam (1963)
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson...

King of the River (1966)
King of the River is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1966 and 1967. The series centred around the King family and their...

No Hiding Place (1959)
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

International Detective (1959)
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star...

Maigret (1960)
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

Dickens Of London (1976)
A mini-series based on the life of Charles Dickens.

Z-Cars (1962)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...