
Acting
Sydney Fairbrother
Born 1872-07-29 · Southwark, London, England, UK
Acting credits
No synopsis available yet.
Iron Justice
1915
8.0Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Gay Love
1934
5.4White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
King Solomon's Mines
1937
9.0A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.
The Beloved Vagabond
1923
8.0A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
Sally Bishop
1923
No synopsis available yet.
Make It Three
1938
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Heartstrings
1923
NRA Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.
The Game of Liberty
1916
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Dora
1933
NRA man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
The Mother of Dartmoor
1916
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
The Bachelor's Club
1921
5.0Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Chu Chin Chow
1934
7.0'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Insult
1932
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
All In!
1936
7.0Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
Dreaming Lips
1937
7.0A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
The Private Secretary
1935
7.2Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
The Last Journey
1935
No synopsis available yet.
Confetti
1928
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Excess Baggage
1933
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
The Return of Raffles
1932
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
Love and Hate
1924
10.0A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Murder on the Second Floor
1932
Two women win £130,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. They use their winnings to establish an oyster bar, but soon become the target of a phony count who attempts to swindle them.
Lucky Ladies
1932
7.0A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
Paradise for Two
1937