Directing

Harry B. Parkinson

Born — Died

1884-09-29 — 1970-08-19

Place of birth

Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

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10.0

Focuses on the suspenseful, intertwined stories of the Chancery court injustices and the scandalous secrets surrounding Lady Dedlock's past. Part of serial Tense Moments from Great Plays.

Bleak House

1922

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7.0

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Vanity Fair

1922

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8.0

A sailor saves his fiancée from a Spanish don and is blinded whilst fighting the Armada.

Westward Ho!

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8.0

A boxer saves a girl from a noble kidnapper.

Corinthian Jack

1921

Trapped by the Mormons poster
6.3

Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.

Trapped by the Mormons

1922

A Sister to Assist 'Er poster
7.0

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

A Sister to Assist 'Er

1930

Cocaine poster
8.0

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

Cocaine

1922

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8.0

A man escapes from a revolution in Ruritania and saves his beloved princess from her crooked brother.

The Story of the Rosary

1920

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Gamble with Hearts

1923

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NR

First installment of the Tense Moments with Great Authors series. Presumed lost.

Trilby

1922

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NR

First installment of the Tense Moments with Great Authors series. Presumed lost.

Trilby

1922

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Tale of Two Cities

1922

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Faust

1927

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tense Moments from Opera

1922

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rigoletto

1927

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crushing the Drug Traffic

1922

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crushing the Drug Traffic

1922

London After Dark poster
NR

This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at night. Then the film moves off to the old Elephant Theatre on the New Kent Road, where Slaughter stars in a military melodrama. After the show, the film ends with a look at the Rowton House in Southwark, a hostel for the poor much admired by George Orwell.

London After Dark

1926

Wonderful London: Dickens' London poster
8.0

The real London locations which formed the settings for various Dickens novels are shown, sometimes with characters from the books such as Little Nell and Grandad, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and the author himself superimposed.

Wonderful London: Dickens' London

1924

Married to a Mormon poster
10.0

A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lover.

Married to a Mormon

1922

A Race for a Bride poster
NR

Dastardly deeds are afoot when rivals for the hand of a young woman vie against each other in a bicycle race.

A Race for a Bride

1922

London's Outer Ring poster
7.0

A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.

London's Outer Ring

1924

London's Outer Ring poster
7.0

A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.

London's Outer Ring

1924

Wonderful London: London Off the Track poster
8.0

Featuring views behind the usual facade of London's streets including the mews behind St. George's Hospital, Philios Terrace, Kinnerton Street, Dr Johnson's house and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Essex Stairs, Bankside, Clerkenwell and Smithfield.

Wonderful London: London Off the Track

1924

Wonderful London: London Off the Track poster
8.0

Featuring views behind the usual facade of London's streets including the mews behind St. George's Hospital, Philios Terrace, Kinnerton Street, Dr Johnson's house and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Essex Stairs, Bankside, Clerkenwell and Smithfield.

Wonderful London: London Off the Track

1924

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7.0

A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.

The Law Divine

1920

Wonderful London: London's Contrasts poster
NR

In this episode of Wonderful London, comparisons are made between West End and East, old and new.

Wonderful London: London's Contrasts

1924

Wonderful London: London's Contrasts poster
NR

In this episode of Wonderful London, comparisons are made between West End and East, old and new.

Wonderful London: London's Contrasts

1924

Wonderful London: Cosmopolitan London poster
8.0

London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel Road.

Wonderful London: Cosmopolitan London

1924

Wonderful London: Cosmopolitan London poster
8.0

London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel Road.

Wonderful London: Cosmopolitan London

1924

Wonderful London: Flowers of London poster
8.0

A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus flower girls.

Wonderful London: Flowers of London

1924

Wonderful London: Flowers of London poster
8.0

A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus flower girls.

Wonderful London: Flowers of London

1924

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Martha

1922

London's Free Shows poster
5.0

A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire brigade, an abduction staged by a film company and a military parade.

London's Free Shows

1924

London's Free Shows poster
5.0

A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire brigade, an abduction staged by a film company and a military parade.

London's Free Shows

1924

Wonderful London: Known London poster
NR

A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet Streets, Cheapside, the Strand and Piccadilly Circus, amongst others.

Wonderful London: Known London

1924

Wonderful London: Known London poster
NR

A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet Streets, Cheapside, the Strand and Piccadilly Circus, amongst others.

Wonderful London: Known London

1924

Wonderful London: London Old and New poster
NR

A tour by horse-drawn bus, narrated by the driver, contrasts new buildings under construction in London with the old, travelling from the City along Middle Temple Lane, passing Clifford's Inn, The Strand, Piccadilly, St. James' Palace, Kingsway, Lincoln's Inn, St. Sepulchre's church, the Old Bailey and Staple Inn.

Wonderful London: London Old and New

1924

Wonderful London: London Old and New poster
NR

A tour by horse-drawn bus, narrated by the driver, contrasts new buildings under construction in London with the old, travelling from the City along Middle Temple Lane, passing Clifford's Inn, The Strand, Piccadilly, St. James' Palace, Kingsway, Lincoln's Inn, St. Sepulchre's church, the Old Bailey and Staple Inn.

Wonderful London: London Old and New

1924

Wonderful London: Barging Through London poster
7.5

London is viewed from the 'new and fascinating angle' of Regent's Canal, passing from the docks in Limehouse through east London, under Mile End Road, past Hackney, King's Cross, Kentish Town, Camden Lock and London Zoo, finishing in Paddington Basin.

Wonderful London: Barging Through London

1924