Manning Whiley

Acting

Manning Whiley

Born — Died

1915-01-23 — 1975-01-29

Place of birth

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 24 titles

"Pimpernel" Smith poster
7.1

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

"Pimpernel" Smith

1941

The Saint's Vacation poster
5.8

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

The Saint's Vacation

1941

Sailors Three poster
7.6

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

Sailors Three

1940

The Shop at Sly Corner poster
6.6

In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.

The Shop at Sly Corner

1947

Contraband poster
7.1

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

Contraband

1940

The Ghost of St. Michael's poster
6.8

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.

The Ghost of St. Michael's

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Garage owner Tommy and ventriloquist friend Eric join the army and go to France, where they are captured by the Nazis. However, Eric's voice-throwing skills come in handy in engineering their escape and obtaining top secret information.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1940

Uncle Silas poster
5.9

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.

Uncle Silas

1947

The Seventh Veil poster
6.6

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

The Seventh Veil

1945

Old Bill and Son poster
6.6

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

Old Bill and Son

1941

Saloon Bar poster
7.0

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Saloon Bar

1940

Pastor Hall poster
8.0

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

Pastor Hall

1940

The Dummy Talks poster
5.4

An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.

The Dummy Talks

1943

The Big Blockade poster
6.7

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

The Big Blockade

1942

Miss Grant Goes to the Door poster
4.0

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

Miss Grant Goes to the Door

1940

Freedom Radio poster
7.0

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.

Freedom Radio

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

1941

Bell-Bottom George poster
6.5

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.

Bell-Bottom George

1944

The Flying Squad poster
6.2

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

The Flying Squad

1940

Gasbags poster
6.1

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

Gasbags

1941

Teheran poster
7.0

A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.

Teheran

1946

Meet Sexton Blake poster
6.8

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.

Meet Sexton Blake

1945

No artwork available
8.0

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

Children of Chance

1949

For You Alone poster
7.0

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.

For You Alone

1945

1930s · 4 titles