Milton Rosmer

Acting

Milton Rosmer

Born 1881-11-04 · Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

Acting credits

The Small Back Room poster
6.7

As 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

Wuthering Heights poster
10.0

Young 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

Goodbye, Mr. Chips poster
7.4

Throughout 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

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

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Will

1921

Little Women poster
8.0

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Little Women

1917

No artwork available
8.0

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

The Chinese Puzzle poster
8.0

A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.

The Chinese Puzzle

1919

Daybreak poster
6.0

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Daybreak

1948

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

The Phantom Light poster
5.6

A 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

Atlantic Ferry poster
6.6

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Atlantic Ferry

1941

No artwork available
9.0

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

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

Let's Be Famous poster
6.2

An 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

The W Plan poster
8.0

A 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

Frieda poster
5.6

An 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

The Monkey's Paw poster
5.9

A 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

South Riding poster
6.6

Winifred 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

Return to Yesterday poster
6.7

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Return to Yesterday

1940

No artwork available
8.0

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

John Wesley poster
4.5

Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.

John Wesley

1954

High Treason poster
6.1

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.

High Treason

1929

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Gamble with Hearts

1923

Behind the camera

Emil and the Detectives poster
5.5

Erich 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

P.C. Josser poster
NR

The 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

The Guv'nor poster
7.8

The 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

Balaclava poster
10.0

A 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

The Great Barrier poster
7.5

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Great Barrier

1937

The Great Barrier poster
7.5

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Great Barrier

1937

Dreyfus poster
7.0

In 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

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn poster
5.6

In 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

The Secret of the Loch poster
5.5

A 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

The Perfect Lady poster
8.0

'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Perfect Lady

1931

The Challenge poster
6.3

Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.

The Challenge

1938

Everything Is Thunder poster
5.6

The 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

Channel Crossing poster
8.0

Money 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

Many Waters poster
8.0

An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.

Many Waters

1931

After the Ball poster
10.0

The 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