Jameson Thomas

Acting

Jameson Thomas

Born — Died

1888-03-24 — 1939-01-10

Place of birth

St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jameson Thomas (born Thomas Roland Jameson; 24 March 1888 – 10 January 1939) was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 and 1939. In 1929 he starred in Piccadilly opposite Anna May Wong. At the time, Piccadilly was not well received, but has since been recognised as one of the best films of the late British silent era. Thomas moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in minor roles in various films until his death. He played "King" Westley, the fortune-hunting husband/fiancé of Claudette Colbert, in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 47 titles

The Invisible Man poster
7.5

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

The Invisible Man

1933

It Happened One Night poster
7.8

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

It Happened One Night

1934

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town poster
7.5

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Charlie Chan in Egypt poster
6.9

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Charlie Chan in Egypt

1935

Souls at Sea poster
6.5

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

Souls at Sea

1937

One Hundred Men and a Girl poster
6.4

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.

One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937

The Scarlet Empress poster
6.9

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

The Scarlet Empress

1934

The League of Frightened Men poster
6.2

Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.

The League of Frightened Men

1937

The Trial of Vivienne Ware poster
9.0

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

1932

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer poster
6.6

In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935

The Man Who Cried Wolf poster
7.0

An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.

The Man Who Cried Wolf

1937

Bombay Mail poster
7.5

In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.

Bombay Mail

1934

Parnell poster
4.6

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Parnell

1937

The Last Outpost poster
6.2

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.

The Last Outpost

1935

Three Wise Girls poster
5.7

Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles.

Three Wise Girls

1932

Jane Eyre poster
5.2

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Jane Eyre

1934

The House of Secrets poster
5.5

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

The House of Secrets

1936

The Lady in Scarlet poster
4.6

When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

The Lady in Scarlet

1935

Self Defense poster
10.0

Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.

Self Defense

1932

Escapade poster
7.0

Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip looks up to John and while incarcerated maintained contact with him through a continental mailing agency. As John has no idea he was in prison, Phillip tells him that he has just returned from Japan.

Escapade

1932

The Secret of Madame Blanche poster
4.2

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

The Secret of Madame Blanche

1933

A Woman's Man poster
6.5

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.

A Woman's Man

1934

A Lost Lady poster
5.8

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

A Lost Lady

1934

Extravagance poster
4.5

Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.

Extravagance

1930

The Moonstone poster
4.6

A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.

The Moonstone

1934

Chances poster
7.4

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Molly is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with Tom.

Chances

1931

Sing Sing Nights poster
4.2

A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.

Sing Sing Nights

1934

Lady Luck poster
6.3

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.

Lady Luck

1936

Lover Come Back poster
3.3

Tempress Vivian Marsh (Betty Bronseon) lures Tom Evans (Jack Mulhall) away from stenographer Connie Lee (Constance Cummings), the girl he really loves. Connie, on the rebound, has an affair with her married boss Yates (Jameson Thomas). Vivian, not content with her successful conquest of milquetoast Tony, decides to have a romantic liaison with Yates as well. Tony discovers her infidelity, gets a divorce, and returns to Connie, who is a bit less pure than when he abandoned her.

Lover Come Back

1931

The World Accuses poster
6.5

When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.

The World Accuses

1934

Elstree Calling poster
5.0

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Elstree Calling

1930

The Phantom President poster
6.5

Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. But as election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

The Phantom President

1932

Beggars in Ermine poster
7.2

John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.

Beggars in Ermine

1934

Girl Loves Boy poster
6.0

Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.

Girl Loves Boy

1937

Night Life in Reno poster
4.5

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.

Night Life in Reno

1931

The Solitaire Man poster
7.0

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.

The Solitaire Man

1933

Mister Dynamite poster
7.0

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Mister Dynamite

1935

A Successful Failure poster
4.2

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.

A Successful Failure

1934

Coronado poster
5.0

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.

Coronado

1935

Brief Moment poster
3.8

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.

Brief Moment

1933

The Curtain Falls poster
6.0

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.

The Curtain Falls

1934

Death Goes North poster
7.5

Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.

Death Goes North

1939

Stolen Sweets poster
4.2

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.

Stolen Sweets

1934

The Devil Plays poster
4.6

A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.

The Devil Plays

1931

No More Orchids poster
6.7

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

No More Orchids

1932

Convicted poster
5.0

A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.

Convicted

1931

Night Birds poster
2.0

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.

Night Birds

1930

1920s · 13 titles

The Farmer's Wife poster
5.6

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

The Farmer's Wife

1928

No artwork available
6.2

Englishman Martin South (Eric Bransby Williams) is leading an expedition into the Dutch New Guinea hinterland to search for gold, being joined by George Mardyke (Jameson Thomas), who he thinks is his friend. The expedition is attacked by headhunters and Mardyke leaves Martin for dead so he can pursue the latter's fiancee, Eleanor (Lillian Douglas), the daughter of a plantation manager. Meanwhile, Martin is nursed back to health by native girl, Hurana (Grace Savieri), who falls in love with him and helps him escape from some angry natives. Hurana is bitten by a snake and dies, and Martin arrives back to civilisation in time to rescue Eleanor from Mardyke. Was partially filmed back to back on Thursday Island with 'The Hounds of The Deep'

Jungle Woman

1926

Piccadilly poster
6.5

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Piccadilly

1929

Decameron Nights poster
9.0

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

Decameron Nights

1924

The Hound of the Deep poster
7.0

To claim his inheritance, John Strong travels to Thursday Island with an ultimatum to locate a valuable pearl within two years. If he fails, his late uncle's pearling station will be forfeited to a rival pearler, "Black" Darley.

The Hound of the Deep

1926

Blighty poster
8.0

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Blighty

1927

No artwork available
10.0

A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father.

A Daughter of Love

1925

No artwork available
10.0

A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.

The Sins Ye Do

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Romantic and slapstick mishaps on a golf course.

Chester Forgets Himself

1924

High Treason poster
6.1

In the near future, political tensions escalate between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States.

High Treason

1929

The White Sheik poster
9.0

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

The White Sheik

1928

The Rising Generation poster
7.0

A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.

The Rising Generation

1928

No artwork available
9.0

An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.

Poppies of Flanders

1927