
Acting
Milton Rosmer
Born — Died
1881-11-04 — 1971-12-07
Place of birth
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
53 titles
Miton Rosmer made his name on the British stage, debuting in 1889. He easily made the transition to silent pictures, appearing in such films as The Passionate Friends (1922). Talkies proved to be no obstacle to him, as it did to many silent actors, and Rosmer had roles in such classics as Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) and The Stars Look Down (1940). He specialized in playing such characters as magistrates, professors, army officers and other authority figures. Rosmer was also a screenwriter and director. The Crimean War epic Balaclava (1928), which had been shot as a silent by Maurice Elvey, was extensively reshot by Rosmer as a talkie, and he also directed such other films as Channel Crossing …
Known for
3.5Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
8.0The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
7.4Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
9.0In early 19th-century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
Pride and Prejudice
1952
6.7As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
The Small Back Room
1949
6.2An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Let's Be Famous
1939
Film credits
1940s · 9 titles
6.7As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
The Small Back Room
1949
6.6The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Atlantic Ferry
1941
6.5Davey 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
7.1A 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
6.7Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Return to Yesterday
1940
5.9A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
The Monkey's Paw
1948
5.6An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
Frieda
1947
6.0A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Daybreak
1948
9.0A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
Dangerous Comment
1940
1930s · 7 titles
7.4Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
6.2An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Let's Be Famous
1939
6.6Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
South Riding
1938
6.4This 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
8.0A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The W Plan
1930
5.6A series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.
The Phantom Light
1935
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.
Gas Light
1939
1920s · 13 titles
No synopsis available yet.
The Will
1921
10.0Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Wuthering Heights
1920
Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.
Torn Sails
1920
No synopsis available yet.
A Gamble with Hearts
1923
9.0David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the wedding and wreck Gordon's one chance of true happiness. Gordon will throw Austen over a cliff in a climbing excursion in the Scafell Pike area, but finally he will find all was a dream. A vintage love story and a tale of blackmail based on A.E.W. Mason’s book. The film was produced by Stoll Pictures, Britain's biggest studio of the silent era and features Milton Rosmer.
A Romance of Wastdale
1921
A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
The Twelve Pound Look
1920
7.0A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.
A Woman of No Importance
1921
9.0An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
The Passionate Friends
1922
6.1In the near future, political tensions escalate between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States.
High Treason
1929
A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.
The Amazing Partnership
1921
A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
Belphegor the Mountebank
1921
A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
The Shadow of Egypt
1924
No synopsis available yet.
La donna e l'uomo
1923
1910s · 4 titles
8.0Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Little Women
1917
7.5Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.
Lady Windermere's Fan
1916
NRA scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.
The Man Without a Soul
1916
8.0A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
The Chinese Puzzle
1919
Series credits
3.5Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
8.0The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
8.0The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
9.0In early 19th-century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
Pride and Prejudice
1952
Behind the camera
5.5Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.
Emil and the Detectives
1935
7.8The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
The Guv'nor
1935
6.3During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled Der Berg Ruft, shot the same year in German.
The Challenge
1938
7.0In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Dreyfus
1931
7.5The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Great Barrier
1937
7.5The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Great Barrier
1937
5.6In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
5.5A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
The Secret of the Loch
1934
NRThe fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem himself by breaking up a ring of crooks who have been fixing horse-races by doping up the horses.
P.C. Josser
1931
5.6The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Everything Is Thunder
1936
8.0Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
Channel Crossing
1933
8.0'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Perfect Lady
1931
10.0The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.
After the Ball
1932
8.0An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Many Waters
1931
10.0A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
Balaclava
1928

