Walter Byron

Acting

Walter Byron

Born — Died

1899-06-11 — 1972-03-03

Place of birth

Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Walter Byron (born Walter Clarence Butler; 11 June 1899 – 2 March 1972) was an English film actor.[1

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 6 titles

1930s · 41 titles

Man of Two Worlds poster
6.5

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

Man of Two Worlds

1934

If You Could Only Cook poster
7.4

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

If You Could Only Cook

1935

Three Wise Girls poster
5.7

Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles.

Three Wise Girls

1932

Big Time Or Bust poster
5.7

Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.

Big Time Or Bust

1933

Folies Bergère de Paris poster
6.0

An impersonates look-alike, causing confusion wife girlfriend.

Folies Bergère de Paris

1935

This Sporting Age poster
8.0

Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.

This Sporting Age

1932

The Bridge of Sighs poster
8.0

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.

The Bridge of Sighs

1936

British Agent poster
5.8

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

British Agent

1934

The Yellow Ticket poster
5.1

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

The Yellow Ticket

1931

The Lion and the Lamb poster
7.0

Directed by George B. Seitz. With Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Raymond Hatton, Montagu Love.

The Lion and the Lamb

1931

Vanity Fair poster
4.7

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Vanity Fair

1932

Frontier Scout poster
6.0

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

Frontier Scout

1938

Once to Every Woman poster
6.1

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

Once to Every Woman

1934

Trade Winds poster
6.4

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.

Trade Winds

1938

The Menace poster
5.6

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

The Menace

1932

Shop Angel poster
7.0

A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.

Shop Angel

1932

Back in Circulation poster
6.5

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

Back in Circulation

1937

Slightly Married poster
6.3

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

Slightly Married

1932

Society Girl poster
7.5

Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

Society Girl

1932

Sinners in the Sun poster
5.0

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Sinners in the Sun

1932

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case poster
8.0

When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

1933

No artwork available
6.5

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

1933

Mr. Boggs Steps Out poster
5.3

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

Mr. Boggs Steps Out

1938

The Reckless Hour poster
6.6

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.

The Reckless Hour

1931

Don't Bet on Blondes poster
5.8

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.

Don't Bet on Blondes

1935

No artwork available
7.0

After moving from England to Canada, Tony becomes the owner of a dance hall and meets dancer, Maxine. Soon after falling in love, Tony learns he has become heir to his family’s fortune and duty compels him to return home to England. Back in England Tony meets Diana and is forced to choose between love and family duty.

The Dancers

1930

Not Damaged poster
9.0

A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.

Not Damaged

1930

The Savage Girl poster
3.9

An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.

The Savage Girl

1932

The Last Flight poster
6.5

WWI pilots Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis, traumatized by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet the eccentric and wealthy Nikki, who is drawn to Cary. The five friends, tagged by boorish reporter Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.

The Last Flight

1931

Top of the Town poster
6.0

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

Top of the Town

1937

Grand Slam poster
4.6

In New York City, Russian waiter Peter Stanislavsky becomes a national celebrity after he develops a 'system' for winning at contract bridge.

Grand Slam

1933

No artwork available
7.2

Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

The Crusader

1932

East of Fifth Avenue poster
6.2

A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.

East of Fifth Avenue

1933

Crashing Thru poster
7.5

Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.

Crashing Thru

1939

All Men Are Enemies poster
9.0

A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.

All Men Are Enemies

1934

What Price Decency poster
3.0

A young woman with a shady past goes to the tropics, where she winds up marrying a vicious and brutal pearl trader, then falls in love with another man.

What Price Decency

1933

Kiss of Araby poster
4.0

While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.

Kiss of Araby

1933

Death Goes North poster
7.5

Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.

Death Goes North

1939

Week Ends Only poster
10.0

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.

Week Ends Only

1932

Left Over Ladies poster
7.0

Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.

Left Over Ladies

1931

Exposure poster
5.5

A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.

Exposure

1932

1920s · 7 titles

The Awakening poster
5.7

A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.

The Awakening

1928

The Sacred Flame poster
3.3

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.

The Sacred Flame

1929

Tommy Atkins poster
7.0

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

Tommy Atkins

1928

Queen Kelly poster
6.5

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Queen Kelly

1929

No artwork available
10.0

A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.

White Heat

1927

No artwork available
8.0

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

Yvette

1927

No artwork available
9.0

Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.

Hubby's Weekend Trip

1928