Acting

Nancy O'Neil

Born 1911-08-25 · Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Acting credits

The Titfield Thunderbolt poster
7.0

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

The Titfield Thunderbolt

1953

No artwork available
7.0

A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.

Hello, Sweetheart

1935

No artwork available
7.0

A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.

The Medium

1934

No artwork available
8.0

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.

Darts Are Trumps

1938

Solo for Sparrow poster
NR

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow, decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.

Solo for Sparrow

1962

No artwork available
7.0

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.

Twelve Good Men

1936

Something Always Happens poster
6.5

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Something Always Happens

1934

No artwork available
NR

A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theatre of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.

A Soldier Comes Home

1945

The Brown Wallet poster
9.0

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.

The Brown Wallet

1936

The Secret of the Loch poster
5.5

A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.

The Secret of the Loch

1934

No artwork available
NR

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.

East of Ludgate Hill

1937

Headline poster
7.0

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

Headline

1943

No artwork available
8.0

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.

Brewster's Millions

1935

No artwork available
9.0

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.

Educated Evans

1936

No artwork available
6.0

A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.

Jack Ahoy

1934

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers

Garrison Follies

1940