Acting

Harold Ayer

Born 1916-08-15 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

Night of the Demons poster
6.3

When partygoers at a deserted funeral home decide to have a séance on Halloween night, they awaken something evil with a thirst for blood.

Night of the Demons

1988

Tarzan the Ape Man poster
4.1

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.

Tarzan the Ape Man

1981

The Man Who Wasn't There poster
4.3

When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.

The Man Who Wasn't There

1983

Star! poster
6.9

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

Star!

1968

Checkpoint poster
5.6

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.

Checkpoint

1956

The Whereabouts of Jenny poster
6.0

Jimmy O'Meara loves his daughter more than anything in the world. But when his ex-wife gets involved with a man who's involved with criminals, his world is turned upside down. They have entered the Witness Protection Program and the government attorney who is in charge of the program is being highly uncooperative with Mr. O'Meara's request that he be granted access to his daughter. This starts an intense legal battle.

The Whereabouts of Jenny

1991

Dead Air poster
5.8

A distraught disc jockey seeks out a mystery caller who may be the killer of his girlfriend.

Dead Air

1994

Saturday Island poster
5.6

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tropical island. But when British pilot William Peck crash-lands on their cozy little atoll, Dugan suddenly discovers he has a rival in love.

Saturday Island

1952

River Beat poster
6.3

British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol.

River Beat

1954

Desperate Moment poster
6.5

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Desperate Moment

1953

In Quiet Night poster
4.3

A thriller about a man, Dr Wolcott, who is wrongfully acquitted of charges that he molested his daughter, Dinah. The deputy district attorney, Joey, takes Dinah with her seeking refuge from Dr. Wolcott's molestation.

In Quiet Night

1998

Glitz poster
5.0

Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.

Glitz

1988

No artwork available
6.5

A young farmer becomes a singer against the wishes of his uncle.

A Time to Sing

1968

No artwork available
NR

A young restless young Amish girl falls in love with a visiting man and gets pregnant. She resorts to some drastic action and must now seek to reconcile herself with her community.

The Gentle People and the Quiet Land

1971