Claud Allister
Popularity:0.141
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1888-08-02
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
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Also Known As:Claude Allister, William Claud Michael Palmer

The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be...

Reaching for the Moon (1930)
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced...

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

On the Loose (1931)
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with...

Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

The Wind in the Willows (1949)
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when...

Monte Carlo (1930)
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Danger – Love at Work (1937)
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

I Like Your Nerve (1931)
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt...

Those Were the Days (1934)
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...

Three Live Ghosts (1936)
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.

Charming Sinners (1929)
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

Lady Luck (1936)
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is...

Captain Applejack (1931)
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Men Are Such Fools (1938)
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find...

The Florodora Girl (1930)
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

The Dark Angel (1935)
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has...

The Unexpected Father (1932)
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's...

Meet the Wife (1931)
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to...

Lillian Russell (1940)
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Blond Cheat (1938)
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...

Every Night at Eight (1935)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their...

Platinum Blonde (1931)
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...

The Lady Is Willing (1934)
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

The Midshipmaid (1932)
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

The First Gentleman (1948)
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Dracula's Daughter (1936)
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Meet the Governor (1955)
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

Excess Baggage (1933)
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Confirm or Deny (1941)
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

The Awful Truth (1937)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

The Sea Ghost (1931)
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom...

In the Next Room (1930)
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...

Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make...

The Medicine Man (1933)
A young man impersonates a doctor.

Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Storm Over Bengal (1938)
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...

Captain Fury (1939)
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Slightly Scarlet (1930)
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony,...

Diamond Cut Diamond (1932)
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

The Return of Raffles (1932)
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

Two White Arms (1932)
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

Oh, What a Knight! (1937)
A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really...

Quartet (1948)
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Gaiety George (1946)
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five...

Hong Kong (1952)
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a...

Sleeping Car (1933)
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

The Czar of Broadway (1930)
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 (2004)
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a...

Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.

Charley's Aunt (1941)
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Don Chicago (1945)
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

Kiss Me Kate (1953)
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a...