Acting
Barbara Gott
Born 1872-01-01 · Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Acting credits
5.7When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Downhill
1927
Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.
Cleaning Up
1933
7.0Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
The Sport of Kings
1931
A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
Great Stuff
1933
A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.
The Medium
1934
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Compromising Daphne
1930
A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.
Lily of Killarney
1930
8.0The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Pastor Hall
1940
7.0George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together.
The Night Porter
1930
An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
The Romance of Lady Hamilton
1919
5.0A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
Sally in Our Alley
1931
9.0In Dijon, Inspector Hanaud investigates Betty Harlowe after her uncle, Boris Waberski, accuses her of poisoning her wealthy aunt for an inheritance. While an initial autopsy finds nothing, Hanaud discovers the use of Strophanthus Hispidus—a rare, undetectable poison applied via an antique arrow. Amidst a flurry of "poison pen" letters and deception, Hanaud proves the murder occurred despite the lack of conventional medical evidence.
The House of the Arrow
1930
7.0Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
At the Villa Rose
1930
A henpecked husband turns on his bullying wife.
Mr. Smith Wakes Up
1929
In Wales, a gypsy queen changes her sister's dead baby for one by the same father. The child grows up to marry her daughter.
Betta the Gypsy
1918
7.3Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel.
Sunshine Susie
1931
6.0Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
The Beloved Vagabond
1936
6.7Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
The Water Gipsies
1932
8.0The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
Paradise
1928
7.0'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
Lord Richard in the Pantry
1930
10.0Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
The Flying Fool
1931
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
A Safe Proposition
1932
7.0A humble girl's rise to fame.
Born Lucky
1933
No synopsis available yet.
The Little People
1927