Acting
Humberston Wright
Born 1876-09-27
Acting credits
9.0A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.
Master & Man
1929
A rich man's chauffeur kills his mistress and frames his daughter's fiancé.
London Love
1927
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
In a Monastery Garden
1932
9.0Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
The Miracle
1923
6.3The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The Sign of Four
1923
In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.
Henry, King of Navarre
1924
8.0A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
Sally Bishop
1923
NRA killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu
1923
An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
The Romance of Lady Hamilton
1919
In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.
Slaves of Destiny
1924
5.5Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
The Clue of the Pigtail
1923
7.0When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
The Sacred Order
1923
7.0Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
The Fungi Cellars
1923
7.3This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
The Man with the Limp
1923
6.5In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
The Fiery Hand
1923
10.0The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
The Knocking on the Door
1923
6.3Cardsharpers gas a drunkard and make him think he has killed his wife, so that he helps them plan a bank raid.
Trapped by London Sharks
1916
8.0Second release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Plans for an aerial torpedo are stolen from its inventor Frank Norris West, Nayland Smith tries to retrieve them but is defeated by Fu-Manchu.
The West Case
1923
8.5Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a visit to London from a plot by Dr. Fu-Manchu.
The Call of Siva
1923
7.5A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
Aaron's Rod
1923
8.0Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu
1924
9.0Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
The Silver Buddha
1923
8.3A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Alf's Button
1930
6.0George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine, George enters a relationship with another woman.
Love on Leave
1940