Acting

Davina Whitehouse

Born — Died

1912-12-16 — 2002-12-25

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1940s · 5 titles

1930s · 15 titles

Tangled Evidence poster
4.5

A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.

Tangled Evidence

1934

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street poster
5.7

It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

1936

Where There's a Will poster
7.1

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities

Where There's a Will

1936

Crown v. Stevens poster
6.5

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.

Crown v. Stevens

1936

South Riding poster
6.6

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

South Riding

1938

I Lived with You poster
6.1

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.

I Lived with You

1933

No artwork available
8.0

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Annie, Leave the Room!

1935

The Ghost Camera poster
6.3

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

The Ghost Camera

1933

The Black Abbot poster
6.2

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

The Black Abbot

1934

Dusty Ermine poster
5.8

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Dusty Ermine

1936

This Week of Grace poster
5.2

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.

This Week of Grace

1933

London Melody poster
7.5

Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?

London Melody

1937

The Private Secretary poster
7.0

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

The Private Secretary

1935

Traitor Spy poster
4.3

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Traitor Spy

1939

Anything to Declare? poster
6.0

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.

Anything to Declare?

1938