John Deverell

Acting

John Deverell

Born 1880-05-30 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

A Night in Montmartre poster
6.0

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.

A Night in Montmartre

1931

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7.0

An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.

Everything in Life

1936

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8.0

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her romance with theatre electrician Paul Lebrun.

The King of Paris

1934

Alibi poster
8.0

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Alibi

1931

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10.0

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Marry the Girl

1935

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10.0

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup.

The Path of Glory

1934

The Street Singer poster
9.0

Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.

The Street Singer

1937

Monte Carlo Madness poster
7.0

In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, but falls in love with a Queen.

Monte Carlo Madness

1932

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6.8

An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.

Incident in Shanghai

1938

Above Rubies poster
7.0

In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.

Above Rubies

1932

The Girl in the Taxi poster
6.8

In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.

The Girl in the Taxi

1937

Children of Chance poster
9.0

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!

Children of Chance

1930