Acting
Viola Compton
Born 1886-12-30 · Fulham, London, England, UK
Acting credits
6.4Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
The Good Companions
1933
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Compromising Daphne
1930
A young man impersonates a doctor.
The Medicine Man
1933
7.0During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Who Goes Next?
1938
6.5Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
Third Time Lucky
1931
7.2Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
The Last Journey
1935
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Excess Baggage
1933
5.9A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
The Shadow
1933
7.0A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
The Man in the Mirror
1936
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
The Big Noise
1936
7.0Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
Looking on the Bright Side
1932
A pair of sisters have ambitions to take to the stage when they realize that their parent's act is finished.
Happy Days Are Here Again
1936
7.5Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain.
The Black Hand Gang
1930
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
Dark World
1935