Acting

Hay Plumb

Acting credits

The Midshipmaid poster
7.0

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

The Midshipmaid

1932

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

Strange Boarders poster
8.0

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

Strange Boarders

1938

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

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor poster
5.3

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

1910

Tilly's Party poster
5.8

Two young men help two girls escape.

Tilly's Party

1911

No artwork available
7.0

Two young officers in the Italian Royal Air Force (Knight and Stuart) compete for the hand of the attractive Elena (Greta Hansen) and find their comradeship strained as a result. Both try to impress her with daredevil aviation stunts which become increasingly reckless as they try to outdo each other in bravery. Finally, Knight goes too far and crashes his plane on a mountainside. Putting rivalry aside, Stuart risks his life to save his injured colleague, and both realize that their friendship is more important than silly squabbling over a woman. They leave the choice to Elena. A co-production between Britain's Teddington Studios and Italy's Pittaluga studios.

The Blue Squadron

1934

Things Are Looking Up poster
6.5

A scatterbrained circus lady must cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Things Are Looking Up

1935

No artwork available
7.0

A star player is kidnapped by the opposition. However, they are foiled by his girl-friend, just in time for him to get to the match and score the winning goal.

Harry the Footballer

1911

Car of Dreams poster
6.1

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

Car of Dreams

1935

Deadlock poster
7.0

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

Deadlock

1931

No artwork available
NR

'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)

A Burglar for One Night

1911

Widow's Might poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Widow's Might

1935

Heart of Midlothian poster
8.0

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

Heart of Midlothian

1914

No artwork available
4.0

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

Are We Down-Hearted?

1911

No artwork available
10.0

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Seaside Introduction

1911

No artwork available
9.0

Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon.

A Fisherman's Love Story

1912

Behind the camera