Derrick De Marney

Acting

Derrick De Marney

Born — Died

1906-09-21 — 1978-02-18

Place of birth

Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Derrick De Marney was an English stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a producer. He is probably best known for his starring role as a man wrongly accused of murder in the 1937 Alfred Hitchcock film Young and Innocent.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 4 titles

1940s · 8 titles

The First of the Few poster
6.7

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

The First of the Few

1942

Sleeping Car to Trieste poster
6.8

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948

The Second Mr. Bush poster
7.5

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

The Second Mr. Bush

1940

Uncle Silas poster
5.9

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.

Uncle Silas

1947

Dangerous Moonlight poster
6.8

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.

Dangerous Moonlight

1941

Three Silent Men poster
5.8

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.

Three Silent Men

1940

Frenzy poster
4.5

A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.

Frenzy

1946

This Is Poland poster
NR

In the film, used the chronicles of war, fragments preserved in London prewar Polish films (landscape, architecture, industry), Allied supplies from Narvik, chronicles from France and material participation of Polish troops in the Battle of Britain. The film consists of two parts. The first part presents the image of Polish pre-war - an idyllic landscape, folklore, rich culture, growing industry. Part two represents the Nazi aggression, the heroic Polish soldier fighting on different fronts.

This Is Poland

1941

1930s · 16 titles

Things to Come poster
6.4

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Things to Come

1936

Young and Innocent poster
6.5

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

Young and Innocent

1937

Sixty Glorious Years poster
6.3

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

Sixty Glorious Years

1938

The Conquest of the Air poster
5.4

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

The Conquest of the Air

1931

Victoria the Great poster
5.6

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Victoria the Great

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.

Stranglehold

1931

The Lion Has Wings poster
6.4

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

The Lion Has Wings

1939

Blond Cheat poster
7.3

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Blond Cheat

1938

Once in a New Moon poster
6.9

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.

Once in a New Moon

1935

No artwork available
10.0

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Valley of Ghosts

1930

Flying Fifty-Five poster
7.5

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.

Flying Fifty-Five

1939

No artwork available
5.0

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

Music Hall

1934

Land Without Music poster
6.5

Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.

Land Without Music

1936

No artwork available
8.0

In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.

The Immortal Gentleman

1935

No artwork available
7.0

A young man discovers £1,000 in a taxi. The kindly man gives it to an impoverished Irish girl (Geraldine Fitzgerald) by investing it in her cafe, The Cafe Mascot.

Cafe Mascot

1936

Shadows poster
10.0

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.

Shadows

1931

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