Bobby Howes

Acting

Bobby Howes

Born — Died

1895-08-04 — 1972-04-27

Known for

Acting

Credits

12 titles

Charles Robert William Howes (4 August 1895 – 27 April 1972) was a British entertainer who was a leading musical comedy performer in London's West End theatres in the 1930s and 1940s. An actor, singer and dancer with a charming, disarming style, Howes was apprenticed to be an electrical engineer before realising his ambition to go on to the stage. While in his teens he performed at music halls and with concert parties, before spending three years in the Army during World War I. After the war he had difficulty getting work, but he made his West End debut in 1923 in The Little Revue Starts At 9, and from then on, for the next 25 years, his inimitable comic style allied to an appealing way of …

Known for

Happy Go Lovely poster
6.1

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.

Happy Go Lovely

1951

Over the Garden Wall poster
8.0

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair.

Over the Garden Wall

1934

Watch It, Sailor! poster
7.0

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.

Watch It, Sailor!

1961

For the Love of Mike poster
7.0

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

For the Love of Mike

1932

Sweet Devil poster
7.0

Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.

Sweet Devil

1938

The Guns of Loos poster
7.5

Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).

The Guns of Loos

1928

Film credits

1930s · 7 titles

Over the Garden Wall poster
8.0

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair.

Over the Garden Wall

1934

For the Love of Mike poster
7.0

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

For the Love of Mike

1932

Sweet Devil poster
7.0

Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.

Sweet Devil

1938

Yes, Madam? poster
10.0

The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.

Yes, Madam?

1938

No artwork available
9.0

Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...

Please Teacher

1937

Lord Babs poster
8.0

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

Lord Babs

1932

Third Time Lucky poster
6.5

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.

Third Time Lucky

1931