Sydney Fairbrother

Acting

Sydney Fairbrother

Born 1872-07-29 · Southwark, London, England, UK

Acting credits

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8.0

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Iron Justice

1915

Gay Love poster
8.0

Sisters 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

King Solomon's Mines poster
5.4

White 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

The Beloved Vagabond poster
9.0

A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.

The Beloved Vagabond

1923

Sally Bishop poster
8.0

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

Sally Bishop

1923

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Make It Three

1938

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9.0

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

Heartstrings

1923

The Game of Liberty poster
NR

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

The Game of Liberty

1916

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7.0

'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

The Mother of Dartmoor poster
NR

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

The Mother of Dartmoor

1916

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8.0

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

The Bachelor's Club

1921

Chu Chin Chow poster
5.0

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Chu Chin Chow

1934

Insult poster
7.0

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

Insult

1932

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10.0

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

Dreaming Lips poster
7.0

Dreaming 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

The Private Secretary poster
7.0

A 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

The Last Journey poster
7.2

Bob 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

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Confetti

1928

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10.0

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Excess Baggage

1933

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8.0

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

The Return of Raffles

1932

No artwork available
10.0

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...

Love and Hate

1924

Murder on the Second Floor poster
10.0

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Murder on the Second Floor

1932

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7.0

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

Paradise for Two poster
7.0

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

Paradise for Two

1937