Syd Crossley

Acting

Syd Crossley

Born 1885-11-17 · Islington, London, England, UK

Acting credits

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7.0

A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

High Society

1932

For the Love of Mike poster
7.0

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

For the Love of Mike

1932

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7.0

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

Old Spanish Customers

1932

Victoria the Great poster
5.6

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Victoria the Great

1937

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9.0

A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.

The Bermondsey Kid

1933

Everything Is Rhythm poster
7.0

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.

Everything Is Rhythm

1936

Cotton Queen poster
6.3

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Cotton Queen

1937

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7.0

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

The Last Coupon

1932

Dandy Dick poster
6.9

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!

Dandy Dick

1935

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9.0

A telephonist falls for her employer.

Give Her a Ring

1934

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NR

A stirring story of a woman's love and a dog's devotion played against the background of Kentucky's Hills.

Fangs of the Wild

1928

The Gorilla poster
10.0

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

The Gorilla

1927

Leave It to Me poster
7.0

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

Leave It to Me

1933

Feather Your Nest poster
8.0

A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Feather Your Nest

1937

Perfect Understanding poster
6.6

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 himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

Perfect Understanding

1933

Perfect Understanding poster
6.6

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 himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

Perfect Understanding

1933

The Squeaker poster
6.3

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

The Squeaker

1937

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6.7

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

Pearls Bring Tears

1937

The Younger Generation poster
6.9

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.

The Younger Generation

1929

The Man Behind the Mask poster
5.3

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.

The Man Behind the Mask

1936

The Cowboy Kid poster
8.0

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.

The Cowboy Kid

1928

Atlantic poster
5.3

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.

Atlantic

1929

Penny Paradise poster
6.7

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.

Penny Paradise

1938

That Certain Thing poster
6.8

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

That Certain Thing

1928