Elsie Wagstaff

Acting

Elsie Wagstaff

Born — Died

1899-07-01 — 1985-07-16

Place of birth

Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Espionage poster
10.0

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

Espionage

1963

The Frighteners poster
8.5

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

The Frighteners

1972

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow poster
6.9

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

1963

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell poster
6.1

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974

Great Expectations poster
8.0

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Great Expectations

1967

The Raging Moon poster
6.5

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.

The Raging Moon

1971

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 6 titles

1950s · 4 titles

1940s · 13 titles

Adam and Evelyne poster
7.0

A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

Adam and Evelyne

1949

Trottie True poster
7.0

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Trottie True

1949

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora poster
7.0

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill and refuses entry, raising suspicions about her whereabouts.

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora

1949

Appointment with Crime poster
6.2

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.

Appointment with Crime

1946

My Brother Jonathan poster
6.8

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

My Brother Jonathan

1948

The Dark Tower poster
6.2

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

The Dark Tower

1943

The Balloon Goes Up poster
5.8

Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.

The Balloon Goes Up

1942

Crimes at the Dark House poster
6.2

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.

Crimes at the Dark House

1940

No artwork available
7.0

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.

Emma

1948

The Interrupted Journey poster
5.8

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.

The Interrupted Journey

1949

No artwork available
NR

Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.

Old Mother Riley at Home

1945

Headline poster
7.0

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

Headline

1943

Meet Sexton Blake poster
6.8

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.

Meet Sexton Blake

1945

1930s · 4 titles

Series credits