Writing
Syd Courtenay
Acting credits
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
1932
6.3The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Cotton Queen
1937
7.0A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Bill's Legacy
1931
7.0When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Why Sailors Leave Home
1930
7.0A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
Poor Old Bill
1931
8.0While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
What a Night!
1931
10.0In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Kiss Me Sergeant
1930
7.3Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Boys Will Be Girls
1938
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Lost In The Legion
1934
10.0Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
1931
9.0This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
The Pride of the Force
1933
7.0A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
1930
Behind the camera
9.0A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
Hawleys of High Street
1933
British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.
The Stoker
1935
7.0Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Everything Is Rhythm
1936
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
The Last Coupon
1932
5.3A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
7.0A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Bill's Legacy
1931
9.0A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
A Political Party
1934
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
Captain Bill
1935
8.0While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
What a Night!
1931
6.3Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his uncle, the family benefactor.
Darby and Joan
1937
5.8A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
The Outcast
1934
7.0A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
1930