Acting

Rex Garner

Born 1921-01-31 · Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK

Acting credits

Sweet Murder poster
4.2

A girl is having trouble making the rent, so she advertises for a female roommate. A seemingly sweet and shy girl named Laurie moves in, and proves to be an insane killer!

Sweet Murder

1990

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

Heart of Dixie poster
5.8

Three young sorority women try to find love with potential men, while worrying about changes in their way of life when integration begins at their college in 1957 segregated Alabama.

Heart of Dixie

1989

One Good Turn poster
6.2

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

One Good Turn

1955

No artwork available
3.7

Set in the outback of Africa's Okavango Delta, Wayne Garrison, a former Green Beret, dedicated to the conservation of the region, finds himself forced back into action

Wild Zone

1989

Who Done It? poster
5.5

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

Who Done It?

1956

No Love for Johnnie poster
6.7

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

No Love for Johnnie

1961

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. poster
6.2

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

1959

The Plank poster
6.2

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

The Plank

1967

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher poster
7.5

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

2003

Up in the World poster
6.4

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

Up in the World

1956

The End of the Line poster
6.2

The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

The End of the Line

1957

Murder at 3am poster
6.0

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

Murder at 3am

1953

No artwork available
NR

An attractive young widow thinks that she is investing in a respectable riding school, only to find out she has bought a brothel.

Birds of Paradise

1981

House of Character poster
10.0

Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising agency, etc. Finally, it's revealed that the new flat is, in fact, a room in a psychiatric asylum.

House of Character

1968

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