John Longden

Acting

John Longden

Born 1900-11-11 · West Indies

John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.

Acting credits

A Matter of Life and Death poster
7.8

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

Young and Innocent poster
6.5

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

Young and Innocent

1937

Quatermass 2 poster
6.4

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Quatermass 2

1957

Jamaica Inn poster
6.1

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

Jamaica Inn

1939

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 Elusive Pimpernel poster
6.0

Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.

The Elusive Pimpernel

1950

Anna Karenina poster
6.0

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted— but in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1948

No artwork available
8.0

Two crime drama tales of plans for a murder gone wrong. In the first story, a man plots to murder his daughter's blackmailer and then himself. In the second story, a doctor hypnotizes a man who's been having an affair with his wife to kill her, or hopefully she will kill him. Originally released to television as individual episodes of "The Vise".

Final Column

1955

Blackmail poster
6.5

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

Blackmail

1929

No artwork available
NR

A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.

Barging Along

1941

The Man Who Finally Died poster
6.3

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.

The Man Who Finally Died

1963

Juno and the Paycock poster
4.6

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

Juno and the Paycock

1930

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing poster
6.6

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians.

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

1942

The Skin Game poster
5.4

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

The Skin Game

1931

Contraband poster
7.1

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Contraband

1940

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

Innocent Sinners poster
7.5

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

Innocent Sinners

1958

Piccadilly poster
6.5

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Piccadilly

1929

The Magic Box poster
6.5

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The Magic Box

1952

Pool of London poster
6.6

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Pool of London

1951

Q Planes poster
6.0

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.

Q Planes

1939

The Last Post poster
9.0

'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Last Post

1929

Bonnie Prince Charlie poster
5.5

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.

Bonnie Prince Charlie

1948

The Adventures of Dusty Bates poster
5.3

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

1947

Behind the camera