
Acting
Warwick Ward
Born 1891-12-03 · Saint Ives, Huntingdonshire, England, UK
Acting credits
10.0Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Wuthering Heights
1920
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Die berühmte Frau
1927
8.0'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Man of Mayfair
1931
6.4At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
Birds of Prey
1930
No synopsis available yet.
Lady Harrington
1926
8.5A trapeze artist suffers the curse that causes her kisses to be deadly.
La Venenosa
1928
8.5Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
Looping the Loop
1928
1820. A squire kills his pregnant mistress to marry a heiress but is exposed by his mother's dream.
Maria Marten
1928
9.0Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
Eva and the Grasshopper
1927
8.0A 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
9.0In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
The White Sheik
1928
10.0A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
The Woman He Scorned
1929
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Die schönste Frau von Paris
1928
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Bordellos of Algiers
1927
10.0In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.
Human Desires
1924
NROne evening at a ball, Count Georg de Clermont-Latour—a man who places great importance on convention and traditional notions of honor—surprises a young man in his wife Odette’s bedchamber. Despite her protestations that she had rebuffed the presumptuous youth and behaved with neither impropriety nor infidelity, her husband refuses to believe a word she says and casts her out of his home.
Odette
1928
8.0When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice.
Her Dark Spot
1929
No synopsis available yet.
The Great Turf Mystery
1924
A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
Belphegor the Mountebank
1921
6.7Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Variety
1925
6.3A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
The Informer
1929
A boxer saves a girl from a noble kidnapper.
Corinthian Jack
1921
A manager's mistress cons a financier into buying a dud oil claim.
The Money Habit
1924
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
The Prude's Fall
1925
Behind the camera
6.5Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall, a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence, but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...
The Last Chance
1937
6.8Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
My Brother Jonathan
1948
5.4Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Isn't Life Wonderful!
1953
5.5The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
The Dancing Years
1950
5.5The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
The Dancing Years
1950
5.2Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
Quiet Weekend
1946
5.2Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
Quiet Weekend
1946
5.6At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Warn That Man
1943
6.0With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
The Man from Morocco
1945
9.0A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
The Man at Six
1931
6.2Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.
The Young and the Guilty
1958
5.6Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
Dead Men Are Dangerous
1939
Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Night Alone
1938
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Women Aren't Angels
1943