Acting

Frank Birch

Born — Died

1889-12-05 — 1956-02-14

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

12 titles

Frank Birch was born on 5 December 1889 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Ashes (1930) and Le médecin malgré lui (1938). He was married to Hon. Vera Benedicta. He died on 14 February 1956 in London, England, UK.

Known for

Jump for Glory poster
5.7

A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Jump for Glory

1937

No artwork available
10.0

Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.

Ashes

1930

No artwork available
9.0

A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.

Cross Currents

1935

Double Exposures poster
7.0

A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.

Double Exposures

1937

The Challenge poster
6.3

During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled Der Berg Ruft, shot the same year in German.

The Challenge

1938

Victoria the Great poster
5.6

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Victoria the Great

1937

Film credits

1930s · 9 titles

Jump for Glory poster
5.7

A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Jump for Glory

1937

No artwork available
9.0

A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.

Cross Currents

1935

Double Exposures poster
7.0

A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.

Double Exposures

1937

The Challenge poster
6.3

During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled Der Berg Ruft, shot the same year in German.

The Challenge

1938

Victoria the Great poster
5.6

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Victoria the Great

1937

Who Goes Next? poster
7.0

During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.

Who Goes Next?

1938

No artwork available
9.0

A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.

Love at Sea

1936

The Insect Play poster
7.0

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

The Insect Play

1939

No artwork available
6.5

A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.

The Villiers Diamond

1938

Behind the camera