Reginald Beckwith
Total Credits at Criticker: 33 (Actor), 2 (Writer)
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Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader... (imdb)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. (imdb)
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him. (imdb)
It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other... (imdb)
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be... (imdb)
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him as if he is a King and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves. (imdb)
A British officer, captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, amongst many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross!! Based on a true story. (imdb)
The Big Job stars James as George the Brain, leader of a gang of inept bank robbers who end up in prison for 15 years, with only the thought of the stolen money that remains hidden (LOVFILM)
Comedy of railfans who take over their village's passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it. (imdb)
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life. (imdb)
In an isolated house, mystery writer Janet Frobisher is involved in potentially murderous relationships. (imdb)
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West. (imdb)
Just after a young singer comes out with his first hit record, he is drafted into the Army. (imdb)
An American con-man, traveling in Africa, is transformed into a local hero after a village tribe believes him to be a reincarnation of Moses. (TCM.com)
Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however, is highly exploitative of the young singer, and their relationship soon begins to go bad. (imdb)
An American salvager sells off his company shares and ships off to England to investigate the mysterious circumstances of his brother's death during World War 2.
A ordinary young American woman learns that she has become the owner of a tiny European country. Comedy and romance ensue. (imdb)
A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board. (imdb)
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police. (imdb)
The marketing department of a pharmaceutical company decides to find a dentist to endorse it's brand of toothpaste. (imdb)
A fair stab at yet another World War II comedy, this film by Michael Relph features the humorous antics of an ENSA troupe (the British equivalent of the American USO) and an absurd involvement with an army major (Alfred Marks) that leads to the capture of a German commanding officer (Marius Goring). The troupe of entertainers includes a pair of seasoned crooners, a level-headed piano player, a leader who seems to fail equally well at comedy and singing, his wife, and a few others. (allmovie.com)
This low-budget swashbuckling film is not in the same league with the Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn portrayals, but still fun if the viewer doesn't do comparisons. Standard Robin Hood plot. (allmovie.com)
A mild-mannered British planning engineer is sent across the Atlantic by his firm to negotiate a deal for which he feels hugely out of his depth. He finds however, that his personality changes in synchronization with a clock. (Wikipedia)
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde.
On the English Channel Island of Boonzey there is a small British Navy base serviced by minesweeper HMS Compton. The task of the vessel and its crew is to sweep the surrounding waters for German magnetic mines leftover from WW2. The task is easy since there are no mines in the local waters. Therefore, the crew spends its time in various ways in order to kill boredom.
Cyril's family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only when he dies and his salesman Bernie marries his widow Julie that the truth comes out through Cecil re-appearing as a parrot, puzzlingly given as a wedding gift. When a local Brighton heavy realises he's been conned the family band together to try and fix things.
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbors. (imdb)
Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.
An young American lady arrives in Britain to advise on factory working practices and ends up embroiled in a local battle that evokes the spirit of magna Carta.
US sleuth Whispering Smith arrives in London on vacation, but soon becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Ada Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.