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Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Signified by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television, and radio; often playing aristocratic or gentlemanly, sophisticate roles.
Born to a Jewish family in London, Genn was educated as a lawyer and was a practicing barrister until after World War II, in which he served in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He began his acting career at The Old Vic and made his film debut in 1935, starring in a total of 85 screen roles until his death in 1978. For his portrayal of Petronius in the 1951 Hollywood epic Quo Vadis, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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01 April 1953
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood.
23 July 1938
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
22 April 1958
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
05 March 1958
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism.
25 September 1962
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French.
31 December 1950
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
03 December 1945
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
26 October 1950
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
06 July 1940
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs.
27 June 1956
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale.
05 November 1974
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes.
08 November 1951
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
06 May 1963
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
11 August 1953
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade.
02 June 1953
This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.
24 November 1944
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
28 August 1940
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted.
17 January 1950
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
05 February 1970
In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions.
09 June 1966
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister.
11 December 1945
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
01 January 1958
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
01 October 1950
Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.
18 December 1936
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette.
09 June 1944
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
13 July 1948
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
19 November 1947
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin.
17 March 1938
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
29 October 1956
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
19 July 1955
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
28 November 1952
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.
11 May 1940
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
01 January 1936
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
16 October 1950
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
05 November 1948
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939.
01 August 1973
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang.
07 December 1955
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires.
25 June 1970
Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr.
04 November 1948
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution.
29 April 1966
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
31 July 1965
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
10 February 1973
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently.
25 August 1954
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier, confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive.
20 June 1944
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.
06 October 1938
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
05 October 1972
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age.
23 March 1944
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
01 June 1940
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days.
18 February 1971
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
07 April 1938
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace.
02 January 1940
Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."
28 December 1955
A married pair of gamblers try to fleece a wealthy British nobleman while sailing on the Titanic's fateful cruise, but she begins to have misgivings as she becomes attracted to the dashing gentleman, frustrating her husband's goals.
01 January 1952
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green.
07 December 1946
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
31 July 1960
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
05 March 1937
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
20 October 1953
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
01 December 1960
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
01 January 1951
Part of a six part series, this BAFTA Special award nominated documentary looking at the building of hydro-electric power schemes in the Alps of Western Europe, specifically Italy and Austria.
07 January 1968
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
