
Acting
Wilfred Noy
Born 1883-12-24 · South Kensington, London, England, UK
Acting credits
7.0Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Possessed
1931
4.1A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is the same ex-wife he'd neglected, now transformed into a fashionable socialite.
Let Us Be Gay
1930
6.6After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Emma
1932
8.0Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as a temporary diversion from his studies. At Como, Wyn meets and falls in love with Rayetta Muir, an unprincipled actress who trifles with him. In London, Rayetta avoids seeing Wyn, ready to forget him. Wyn is crazed when he learns that Rayetta is intimate with both Lord Durhugh, an old roué, and Le Grand, a French boxer; and in a rage he chokes Rayetta and leaves her for dead. He then confesses to his father that he has killed her. Preparing to take the blame, Sir John, accompanied by Wyn, goes to Rayetta's apartment to find that she did not die after all. A lost film.
The Careless Age
1929
6.6A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
The Body Vanished
1939
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
The Barton Mystery
1932
4.3When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Transgression
1931
7.0It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
Janice Meredith
1924
7.6Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Interference
1929
5.7An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
The Flirting Widow
1930
4.3An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
Strictly Unconventional
1930
4.3Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Lilies of the Field
1930
7.0Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she returns home to her husband and tries to carry on as if nothing had happened. Only the doctor who shows up at their house for dinner that night, and who dealt with the crash, knows the truth. A lost film.
The Doctor's Secret
1929
7.0Musical where two friends fall for the same lady and work to make her a star.
Going Gay
1933
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
Ave Maria
1918
No synopsis available yet.
What Would a Gentleman Do?
1918
5.8A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.
The Midnight Girl
1925
Young French girl Eloise is forced to find work as a dancer in a sketchy underworld dive. While working there, she crosses paths once again with Franklyn, an American artist who had previously saved her from a brutal beating. A dangerous criminal named Pierre attacks Franklyn. To protect him and exact her own vengeance, Eloise creatively feigns her own death, causing a panicked Pierre to flee the scene.
The Devil's Cage
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Little Miss Nobody
1923
A detective is on the verge of revealing the identity of an elusive criminal. At the crucial moment, hedrops dead, the victim of foul play. A revolutionary electric devise is utilized to bring the detective back to life long enough for the successful completion of his mission.
The Face at the Window
1920
A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.
City of Beautiful Nonsense
1935
9.0A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The Lady Clare
1919
A queen's ex-lover saves her from the prince who killed her father.
The Queen Mother
1916
10.0Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
Circumstantial Evidence
1929
10.0Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
Circumstantial Evidence
1929
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Annie Laurie
1936
8.0A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Paddy The Next Best Thing
1923
A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
The Temptation of Carlton Earle
1923
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.
On the Banks of Allan Water
1916
9.0Secret agent Tom Ware is given an important message to deliver to Russia. However a spy steals the message and Tom must retrieve it.
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch
1912
A girl's fiancé is charged with killing a general whose heart failed while attempting to seduce her.
The Passions of Men
1914
6.0Did'ums takes on suffragette behaviour and makes a policeman's life miserable with her antics.
Did'ums Diddles The P'liceman
1912
7.0A fake ghost, a gas chamber and a raid on a den of 50 coiners by 100 policemen.
The House of Mystery
1913
A debtor's chance appearance in a newsreel proves he could not have shot his father.
At the Hour of Three
1912