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Paul Cavanagh (8 December 1888 – 15 March 1964) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1928 and 1959.
Cavanagh was born in Chislehurst, Kent, and attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cavanagh studied law in England, earning a master of arts degree at Cambridge. A newspaper article published 17 June 1931, reported, "It is on record that Cavanagh won high honors in mathematics and history."
Cavanagh practised "for several years" before he changed professions. He went to Canada "for a year of sightseeing and wandering" before he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
After serving in World War I, he returned to Canada, where he practised law, including revising the statutes of Alberta, but eventually went back to England to practise law.
Cavanagh went onto the stage after a stroke of bad luck in 1924 caused him to lose his savings, and later he went into films.
In 1926, Cavanagh lost $22,000 in one evening on a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. An observer offered to provide a letter "to some of my theatrical acquaintances" in London, England. Those contacts led to Cavanagh's role in It Pays to Advertise.
Cavanagh first film contract and film came in 1929 with Paramount Pictures.
Cavanagh died In London from a heart attack in 1964, aged 75.
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01 March 1941
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
05 August 1955
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
03 May 1930
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian.
17 August 1930
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
16 June 1942
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
24 November 1950
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England.
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.
10 January 1941
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid.
01 July 1957
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
27 February 1953
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
01 April 1957
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
01 September 1941
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
31 October 1951
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved.
22 November 1935
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious.
16 February 1958
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
20 July 1934
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief.
18 December 1930
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay.
06 May 1936
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
08 October 1952
A 17th-century French pirate sides with an English noblewoman who's posing as a pirate.
13 November 1959
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing.
01 December 1939
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
16 October 1951
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
07 July 1950
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
17 April 1931
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
15 October 1950
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.
01 December 1950
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty.
16 April 1953
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
22 November 1934
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
21 June 1950
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
01 June 1951
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
31 August 1939
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families.
09 August 1994
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
17 March 1939
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
02 July 1946
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital.
27 June 1931
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
18 March 1948
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw.
16 January 1943
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
28 September 1932
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
03 May 1953
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
15 June 1945
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed.
15 June 1950
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
12 January 1956
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
08 November 1931
John Merrick and Vilma Walden, who fall in love at an embassy fundraiser in Vienna before World War I.
04 September 1954
British officers of India is jeopardized when warlords Ahmed Shir and Prince Ishak Khan battle at the Khyber Pass.
21 May 1942
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
07 April 1954
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca.
16 April 1934
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
25 January 1947
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
01 January 1937
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry.
25 August 1949
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
14 March 1931
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
26 June 1947
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr.
02 November 1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people.
21 October 1936
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
13 January 1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
07 August 1954
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr.
01 October 1933
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee?
31 October 1951
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
26 March 1953
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city.
