
Acting
Eva Moore
Born 1870-02-08 · Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Eva Moore (born 1868 or 1870) was an English actress. Her career on stage from 1887 and in film from 1920 spanned six decades. Her daughter Jill Esmond was the first wife of Laurence Olivier.
Acting credits
6.7In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
The Old Dark House
1932
5.9A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.
The Divorce of Lady X
1938
5.3Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
1946
6.8A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Of Human Bondage
1946
10.0The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
Brown Sugar
1931
6.4During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
I Was a Spy
1933
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Annie, Leave the Room!
1935
7.0'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
Motherland
1927
Mendoza, who had an affair with the star of the original production of La Vie parisienne in 1900, returns in 1935 with his son and granddaughter. His granddaughter is engaged to a young Frenchman, but Mendoza's strait-laced and puritanical son initially forbids the marriage. The core conflict involves Mendoza and his old Parisian friends conspiring to change the son's mind and convince him to embrace the titular "Parisian life".
Parisian Life
1936
6.3A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
But the Flesh Is Weak
1932
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
The Circle
1939
Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.
Old Iron
1938
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
Blind Justice
1935
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Leave It to Smith
1933
10.0Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.
Flames of Passion
1922
Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.
Happy Family
1939
6.5A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Scotland Yard Investigator
1945
10.0Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1922
8.0Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
The Song You Gave Me
1933
10.0In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
The Great Well
1924
6.0The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Vintage Wine
1935
10.0'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
Almost a Divorce
1931
9.0In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Chu-Chin-Chow
1924
10.0A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
A Cup of Kindness
1934