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Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire.
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02 March 1962
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation.
28 February 1936
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
12 March 1937
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
01 April 1952
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
25 December 1940
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie.
22 April 1937
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
12 February 1937
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts.
11 October 1935
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
01 January 1953
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
29 July 1938
White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's daughter.
28 September 1938
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom.
07 November 1935
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England.
21 December 1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
01 April 1952
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers.
01 January 1962
To beautify his street and trim city spending, stuffy councilman Jack (Francis Matthews) pushes to have the last gas lamp in town removed.
01 December 1953
A U.S. sailor docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
16 May 1955
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
01 May 1953
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
21 May 1937
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
08 December 1960
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move.
05 June 1936
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that.
15 September 1934
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet.
28 June 1935
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
01 July 1955
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate.
14 December 1934
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her.
01 January 1962
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.
04 May 1934
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline.
01 April 1959
The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.
01 December 1960
An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake.
05 March 1958
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
22 October 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder.
01 July 1951
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder.
03 September 1937
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
11 January 1935
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan.
31 January 1936
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
31 March 1960
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
15 July 1935
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron.
01 April 1954
While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) assists Scotland Yard Insp.
24 December 1939
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
04 October 1936
Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
19 March 1936
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians.
04 May 1962
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape.
18 May 1934
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander.
01 May 1957
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
01 January 1961
A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
22 January 1937
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
19 March 1952
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.
01 October 1959
Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insurance investigator of being a notorious -- and murderous -- jewel thief.
14 November 1938
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley.
01 April 1953
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
18 June 1936
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London.
