Acting

Laurence Kitchin

Born 1913-07-21 · Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Acting credits

"Pimpernel" Smith poster
7.1

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

"Pimpernel" Smith

1941

The Stars Look Down poster
6.5

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

The Stars Look Down

1940

Poison Pen poster
6.7

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Poison Pen

1939

Fame Is the Spur poster
7.1

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.

Fame Is the Spur

1947

Saloon Bar poster
7.0

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Saloon Bar

1940

Housemaster poster
7.5

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

Housemaster

1938

Spare a Copper poster
7.0

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.

Spare a Copper

1940

Luck of the Navy poster
8.0

With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.

Luck of the Navy

1938

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt poster
5.6

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

1940

Behind the camera