Acting

C. Denier Warren

Born — Died

1889-07-28 — 1971-08-27

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Lolita poster
7.3

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Lolita

1962

Night and the City poster
7.5

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

Night and the City

1950

The Clairvoyant poster
6.0

A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

The Clairvoyant

1935

Kicking the Moon Around poster
9.0

Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In an effort to discover whether his fiancee is a golddigger a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all his money. The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut as she made a cameo appearance speaking one line.

Kicking the Moon Around

1938

So Evil, So Young poster
4.7

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

So Evil, So Young

1961

The Secret of Monte Cristo poster
4.3

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson and his daughter Pauline on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.

The Secret of Monte Cristo

1961

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

Lolita poster
7.3

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Lolita

1962

So Evil, So Young poster
4.7

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

So Evil, So Young

1961

The Secret of Monte Cristo poster
4.3

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson and his daughter Pauline on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.

The Secret of Monte Cristo

1961

The Silent Invasion poster
6.7

During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed.

The Silent Invasion

1962

No artwork available
8.0

An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.

A Taste of Money

1960

Return of a Stranger poster
5.5

An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.

Return of a Stranger

1961

The Adding Machine poster
6.7

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

The Adding Machine

1969

The Cool Mikado poster
9.0

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.

The Cool Mikado

1963

1950s · 7 titles

1940s · 5 titles

1930s · 40 titles

The Clairvoyant poster
6.0

A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

The Clairvoyant

1935

Kicking the Moon Around poster
9.0

Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In an effort to discover whether his fiancee is a golddigger a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all his money. The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut as she made a cameo appearance speaking one line.

Kicking the Moon Around

1938

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

It's in the Air poster
5.9

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.

It's in the Air

1938

Strange Boarders poster
8.0

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

Strange Boarders

1938

Cotton Queen poster
6.2

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Cotton Queen

1937

The Challenge poster
6.3

During 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

Heart's Desire poster
9.0

Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...

Heart's Desire

1935

Good Morning, Boys! poster
7.2

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.

Good Morning, Boys!

1937

You Made Me Love You poster
7.1

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

You Made Me Love You

1933

No artwork available
8.0

'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sunshine Ahead

1936

A Star Fell from Heaven poster
10.0

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.

A Star Fell from Heaven

1936

Trouble Brewing poster
6.9

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.

Trouble Brewing

1939

Let Me Explain, Dear poster
7.5

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!

Let Me Explain, Dear

1933

No artwork available
9.0

A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne.

Change for a Sovereign

1937

Old Mother Riley in Paris poster
5.7

Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.

Old Mother Riley in Paris

1938

Heat Wave poster
10.0

Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.

Heat Wave

1935

A Gentleman's Gentleman poster
10.0

A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.

A Gentleman's Gentleman

1939

A Fire Has Been Arranged poster
6.4

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.

A Fire Has Been Arranged

1935

The Body Vanished poster
6.6

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

The Body Vanished

1939

No artwork available
5.0

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

Music Hall

1934

No artwork available
6.3

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Road House

1934

Come on George! poster
6.0

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins

Come on George!

1939

A Romance in Flanders poster
7.0

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger

A Romance in Flanders

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

Birds of a Feather

1936

No artwork available
10.0

British comedy film directed by Max Mack

Be Careful, Mr. Smith

1935

Keep Fit poster
6.3

A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.

Keep Fit

1937

No artwork available
7.0

British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.

Charing Cross Road

1935

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Captain's Orders

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A composer at work on an operetta falls in love with a girl, without realising that she is the star of the opera company.

Two Hearts in Waltz Time

1934

My Irish Molly poster
9.0

Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.

My Irish Molly

1938

My Irish Molly poster
9.0

Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.

My Irish Molly

1938

Royal Cavalcade poster
8.0

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.

Royal Cavalcade

1935

Counsel's Opinion poster
9.0

Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......

Counsel's Opinion

1933

The Beloved Vagabond poster
6.0

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

The Beloved Vagabond

1936

No artwork available
8.3

A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.

Second Best Bed

1938

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marry the Girl

1935

Rose of Tralee poster
8.0

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.

Rose of Tralee

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.

Secret Journey

1939

Darling of the Sailors poster
9.0

A girl sneaks onto a ship and is discovered midseas.

Darling of the Sailors

1938

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