Walter Forde

Directing

Walter Forde

Born 1896-04-21 · Lambeth, London, England, UK

Acting credits

Cheer Boys Cheer poster
6.3

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Cheer Boys Cheer

1939

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9.0

Wait and See is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Frank Stanmore, Pauline Johnson and Sam Livesey.

Wait and See

1928

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8.0

A car salesman dreams he is kidnapped in mistake for his noble double.

Walter's Trying Frolic

1922

Walter Makes a Movie poster
9.0

Walter makes a Movie was directed by Tom Seymour and Walter Forde in 1922. Forde plays a petty thief who steals from film star Pauline Highbrow (Pauline Peters). Pursued by the police he ends up in the Star Film Company's studio during the shooting of her latest melodrama.

Walter Makes a Movie

1922

Walter's Paying Policy poster
8.0

Uninsured collector of rare pottery is pursued by two employees of the Busy Bee Insurance Company.

Walter's Paying Policy

1926

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8.0

Walter comes home drunk from a fancy dress ball he has attended as a convict. His father announces that he has been a wastrel long enough and throws him out. After sleeping it off in the bushes, he learns that a convict has escaped and the cops are after Walter.

Walter the Prodigal

1926

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8.0

Silent comedian Walter Forde takes an illuminating trip around the Osram light bulb factory.

The Economist

1921

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7.0

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

What Next?

1929

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7.0

A wealthy bloater magnate looks for his lost son. His daughter sees a ragged man (Walter) at a construction site with the family birthmark and brings him home. Soon he finds himself in a strange dynamite duel with an excitable Frenchman.

Walter Finds a Father

1921

You'd Be Surprised! poster
9.0

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

You'd Be Surprised!

1930

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9.0

A UK slapstick comedy with Walter Forde.

Walter Tells the Tale

1926

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9.0

Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on board his houseboat.

Walter the Sleuth

1926

Behind the camera

Sailors Three poster
7.6

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

Sailors Three

1940

Brown on Resolution poster
6.3

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?

Brown on Resolution

1935

The Ghost Train poster
6.1

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

The Ghost Train

1941

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt poster
5.6

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

1940

Rome Express poster
6.1

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Rome Express

1932

The Four Just Men poster
6.7

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

The Four Just Men

1939

Cheer Boys Cheer poster
6.3

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Cheer Boys Cheer

1939

The Peterville Diamond poster
5.8

Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

The Peterville Diamond

1943

Kicking the Moon Around poster
9.0

Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In an effort to discover whether his fiancee is a golddigger a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all his money. The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut as she made a cameo appearance speaking one line.

Kicking the Moon Around

1938

Bulldog Jack poster
6.7

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.

Bulldog Jack

1935

Cardboard Cavalier poster
6.0

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.

Cardboard Cavalier

1949

Cardboard Cavalier poster
6.0

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.

Cardboard Cavalier

1949

The Gaunt Stranger poster
7.3

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.

The Gaunt Stranger

1938

Saloon Bar poster
7.0

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Saloon Bar

1940

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9.0

Wait and See is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Frank Stanmore, Pauline Johnson and Sam Livesey.

Wait and See

1928

Atlantic Ferry poster
6.6

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Atlantic Ferry

1941

Flying Fortress poster
6.3

Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!

Flying Fortress

1942

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It poster
7.4

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

1941

Time Flies poster
6.0

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?

Time Flies

1944

Let's Be Famous poster
6.2

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

Let's Be Famous

1939

Gasbags poster
6.1

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

Gasbags

1941

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8.0

A car salesman dreams he is kidnapped in mistake for his noble double.

Walter's Trying Frolic

1922

The Ghost Train poster
8.0

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.

The Ghost Train

1931

Orders Is Orders poster
NR

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.

Orders Is Orders

1933