
Acting
Syd Crossley
Born 1885-11-17 · Islington, London, England, UK
Acting credits
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
High Society
1932
7.0A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
For the Love of Mike
1932
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
1932
5.6The 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
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
The Bermondsey Kid
1933
7.0Based 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
6.3The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Cotton Queen
1937
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
The Last Coupon
1932
6.9The 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
A telephonist falls for her employer.
Give Her a Ring
1934
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
10.0An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
The Gorilla
1927
7.0The 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
8.0A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Feather Your Nest
1937
6.6A 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
6.6A 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
6.3London'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
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
6.9Soap-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
5.3A 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
8.0Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.
The Cowboy Kid
1928
5.3English-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
6.7A 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
6.8Gold-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