Acting

Annie Esmond

Born — Died

1873-09-26 — 1945-01-04

Place of birth

Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

The Private Life of Henry VIII poster
6.4

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges of treason, Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that wedded bliss also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the tyrannical king chooses German-born Anne of Cleves, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and so Henry's reign of spousal terror continues.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933

Thunder in the City poster
6.0

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Thunder in the City

1937

Cottage to Let poster
6.7

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

Cottage to Let

1941

Bulldog Drummond at Bay poster
6.3

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1937

To Oblige a Lady poster
8.0

A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.

To Oblige a Lady

1931

Abdul the Damned poster
6.5

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.

Abdul the Damned

1935

Film credits

1940s · 5 titles

1930s · 30 titles

The Private Life of Henry VIII poster
6.4

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges of treason, Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that wedded bliss also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the tyrannical king chooses German-born Anne of Cleves, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and so Henry's reign of spousal terror continues.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933

Thunder in the City poster
6.0

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Thunder in the City

1937

Bulldog Drummond at Bay poster
6.3

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1937

To Oblige a Lady poster
8.0

A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.

To Oblige a Lady

1931

Abdul the Damned poster
6.5

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.

Abdul the Damned

1935

Prince of Arcadia poster
8.0

A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.

Prince of Arcadia

1933

No artwork available
9.0

After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.

Murder in the Family

1938

No artwork available
6.7

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

Pearls Bring Tears

1937

The Iron Duke poster
8.0

The Duke of Wellington’s attempt to restore peace to France is threatened by a French Duchess.

The Iron Duke

1934

The Good Companions poster
6.4

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

The Good Companions

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.

Ebb Tide

1932

Save a Little Sunshine poster
7.0

Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.

Save a Little Sunshine

1938

No artwork available
10.0

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

1938

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

It's a Cop

1934

Lend Me Your Husband poster
6.0

A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.

Lend Me Your Husband

1935

No artwork available
NR

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.

East of Ludgate Hill

1937

Stolen Life poster
6.8

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.

Stolen Life

1939

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lucky Loser

1934

Stamboul poster
9.0

In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.

Stamboul

1931

Men of Tomorrow poster
8.0

In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.

Men of Tomorrow

1932

The Improper Duchess poster
9.0

The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.

The Improper Duchess

1936

No artwork available
9.0

A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.

The Jewel

1933

The Silent Passenger poster
5.8

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?

The Silent Passenger

1935

Service for Ladies poster
7.6

Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.

Service for Ladies

1932

Alf's Button poster
8.2

A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.

Alf's Button

1930

No artwork available
7.0

A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.

All That Glitters

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Sally Bishop, a headstrong young girl falls for a trashy novelist and insidiously enters his household. This prompts her former fiancé to conspire with the author's wife to expose her foolishness.

Sally Bishop

1932

No artwork available
9.0

The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.

His Lordship Regrets

1938

No artwork available
9.0

A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.

The Officers' Mess

1931

The Outsider poster
7.0

An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.

The Outsider

1931

1920s · 11 titles

A Little Bit of Fluff poster
9.0

Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.

A Little Bit of Fluff

1928

Tiptoes poster
9.0

A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

Tiptoes

1927

Innocent poster
7.0

An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.

Innocent

1921

A Scandal in Bohemia poster
7.0

Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.

A Scandal in Bohemia

1921

Love, Life and Laughter poster
8.5

A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.

Love, Life and Laughter

1923

The Passionate Friends poster
9.0

An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.

The Passionate Friends

1922

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Knave of Diamonds

1921

No artwork available
10.0

A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.

The Sins Ye Do

1924

The Yellow Claw poster
8.0

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

The Yellow Claw

1921

After the Verdict poster
9.0

A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen

After the Verdict

1929

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Recoil

1922