Peter Gawthorne
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1884-08-31
Place of Birth:Queen's County, Ireland
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My Old Dutch (1934)
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...

Paid to Kill (1954)
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939)
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.

Crime Unlimited (1935)
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

Ask a Policeman (1939)
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated...

Convict 99 (1938)
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

Good Morning, Boys! (1937)
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a...

Where's That Fire (1939)
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Tale of Three Women (1954)
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...

Paul Temple Returns (1952)
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...

Man of the Moment (1935)
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

Perfect Understanding (1933)
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

Let the People Sing (1942)
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Flying Fifty-Five (1939)
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

Dirty Work (1934)
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

His Glorious Night (1929)
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry...

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 Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the...

Me and Marlborough (1935)
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Three Silent Men (1940)
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of...

Sunny Side Up (1929)
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...

Brief Ecstasy (1937)
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...

Gangway (1937)
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

The Camels Are Coming (1934)
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Jack's the Boy (1932)
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...

Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong...

Sword of Honour (1939)
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

This Man Is Mine (1946)
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Jericho (1937)
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

Pot Luck (1936)
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been...

Band Waggon (1940)
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

Temple Tower (1930)
The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog...

Soho Conspiracy (1950)
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

The House of Trent (1933)
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Those Three French Girls (1930)
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

The Man Who Came Back (1931)
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

The Crouching Beast (1935)
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

Return of a Stranger (1937)
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...

The Iron Duke (1934)
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

Leave It to Smith (1933)
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...

'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...

Easy Riches (1938)
A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...

Gasbags (1941)
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...

I Thank You (1941)
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...

Crook's Tour (1940)
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

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...

Cottage to Let (1941)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...

Father Steps Out (1937)
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her...

They Came by Night (1940)
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

Bell-Bottom George (1944)
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...

One Hysterical Night (1929)
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are...

C.O.D. (1932)
A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....

The Flag Lieutenant (1932)
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice

His Lordship (1932)
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....

The Lodger (1932)
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Under a Cloud (1937)
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....

Crime Over London (1936)
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Traitor Spy (1939)
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Much Too Shy (1942)
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...

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts (1941)
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

No Limit (1935)
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....

Windbag the Sailor (1936)
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

Something Always Happens (1934)
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol...

Salute the Toff (1952)
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

High Jinks in Society (1949)
After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.

Stormy Weather (1935)
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...

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...

The Case of Charles Peace (1949)
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even...

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.