Jack Allen

Acting

Jack Allen

Born 1907-10-23 · Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK

Acting credits

The Four Feathers poster
7.1

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

The Four Feathers

1939

House of Mortal Sin poster
6.5

A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

House of Mortal Sin

1976

Conspirator poster
5.8

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Conspirator

1949

The Headless Ghost poster
3.4

Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.

The Headless Ghost

1959

The Sound Barrier poster
6.5

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

The Sound Barrier

1952

Ticket to Happiness poster
4.0

Short film about a youth club and its patron, who at first had been opposed to its activities

Ticket to Happiness

1959

Runaway Railway poster
7.0

A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train

Runaway Railway

1965

The Breaking Point poster
5.8

A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.

The Breaking Point

1961

The Big Switch poster
4.7

Playboy John Carter picks up a woman in a discotheque and takes her home. When she is murdered and he is framed for the crime, he finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld plot.

The Big Switch

1968

They're a Weird Mob poster
6.0

An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.

They're a Weird Mob

1966

Man from Tangier poster
5.1

International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.

Man from Tangier

1957

Radio Cab Murder poster
5.6

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

Radio Cab Murder

1954

The White Trap poster
7.2

Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.

The White Trap

1959

It Started in Paradise poster
6.5

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

It Started in Paradise

1952

Impulse poster
4.6

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.

Impulse

1954

Life in Danger poster
8.3

Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.

Life in Danger

1959

Spy for a Day poster
NR

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Spy for a Day

1940

The Queen's Guards poster
5.2

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

The Queen's Guards

1961

Elizabeth of Ladymead poster
8.0

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948

She Shall Have Murder poster
10.0

A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.

She Shall Have Murder

1950

Bomb in the High Street poster
10.0

Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.

Bomb in the High Street

1961

No artwork available
NR

The journey of a mobile bank in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland.

By Lochaber I Will Go

1960