
Acting
Leslie Perrins
Born — Died
1901-10-07 — 1962-12-13
Place of birth
Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, U
Known for
Acting
Credits
62 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leslie Perrins (October 7, 1901 – December 13, 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. In his long career, he appeared in well over 60 films. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham, England and died in Esher, England. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Perrins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
7.4Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
6.8The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
5.4Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
1935
6.0A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Grip of the Strangler
1958
6.2Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
A Run for Your Money
1949
Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.
Old Iron
1938
Film credits
1950s · 4 titles
6.0A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Grip of the Strangler
1958
6.8An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Fortune Is a Woman
1957
4.5An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
The Big Frame
1952
5.5Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Guilty?
1956
1940s · 10 titles
6.2Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
A Run for Your Money
1949
6.7An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Man on the Run
1949
8.0The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Idol of Paris
1948
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
Heaven Is Round the Corner
1944
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Women Aren't Angels
1943
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
I'll Turn to You
1946
6.5A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
The Prime Minister
1941
6.7After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
Suspected Person
1942
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
The Turners of Prospect Road
1947
9.0Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.
All At Sea
1940
1930s · 44 titles
5.4Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
1935
Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.
Old Iron
1938
8.1The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Tudor Rose
1936
8.0Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
The Calendar
1931
6.3Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1937
6.0Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
1935
A chef squabbles with his hotel maître de as to who deserves credit for the success of their restaurant, then decides to open up his own place in competition, across the street, and invites poor people from the neighborhood to fill it up.
Romance à la carte
1938
7.5John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
The Gang's All Here
1939
8.0With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
Luck of the Navy
1938
6.3A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Lord Edgware Dies
1934
5.5A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
The Sleeping Cardinal
1931
8.0A travelling film actor arrives in a small village and transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth", subsequently marrying his daughter. The film is currently impossible to watch as there is no known print available.
The Village Squire
1935
8.0A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses his balance and falls.
Rhythm in the Air
1936
7.5A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
The Man Who Changed His Name
1934
7.0'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Lost Chord
1933
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
His Lordship Goes to Press
1938
5.4A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
The Pointing Finger
1933
'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
Sunshine Ahead
1936
7.0A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
The House of Unrest
1931
British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
Betrayal
1932
6.7Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
1938
6.7A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Secret Lives
1937
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
I Killed the Count
1939
A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
The Rocks of Valpre
1935
8.0Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Gay Love
1934
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Blind Folly
1939
6.0A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
The High Command
1937
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Leave It to Smith
1933
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
Lily of Killarney
1934
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
The Lash
1934
6.0Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Sensation
1936
When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
The Price of Folly
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Lucky Days
1935
7.0A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
No Exit
1936
5.3A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
The Scotland Yard Mystery
1934
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
White Face
1932
5.8A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
The Silent Passenger
1935
6.0Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
The Roof
1933
8.0A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.
Wanted by Scotland Yard
1939
6.2Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
Open All Night
1934
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rented room is next to a cinema with its frankfurter-munching projectionist and romantic musical numbers that seem to permeate their lives. Might they meet and fall in love?' (BFI)
Early to Bed
1933
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
The Rosary
1931
10.0A musical comedy of false identities.
Southern Roses
1936
8.0A haunted house is put up for sale, who will be the buyer?
Immediate Possession
1931
Series credits
7.4Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
6.8The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
