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Gus McNaughton is a Actor British born on 29 july 1881 at London (United-kingdom)

Gus McNaughton

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 29 july 1881 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 november 1969 (at 88 years) at Castor, Cambridgeshire (United-kingdom)

Gus McNaughton (29 July 1881 – 18 November 1969), also known as Augustus Le Clerq and Augustus Howard, was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire. He is sometimes credited as Gus MacNaughton. He appeared on stage from 1899, as a juvenile comedian with the Fred Karno company, the influential British music hall troupe. In films, McNaughton was often cast as the "fast-talking sidekick", and he appeared in several popular George Formby comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. He also appeared twice for director Alfred Hitchcock in both Murder! (1930) and The 39 Steps (1935).

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Filmography of Gus McNaughton (49 films)

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A Place of One's Own
A Place of One's Own (1945)
, 1h32
Directed by Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price, Dulcie Gray, Helen Haye
Roles Police Constable Hargreaves
Rating61% 3.0942453.0942453.0942453.0942453.094245
(The plot summary is copied verbatim from the website "Britmovie".) Mr and Mrs Smedhurst (James Mason and Barbara Mullen) are a business couple wanting to retire. They find a mansion in the country, Bellingham House, at a bargain price. They move in along with their servants and soon learn the house is supposedly haunted – but Mr Smedhurst in particular is sceptical of the paranormal myth. They invite a young companion, Annette (Margaret Lockwood), to join them but within days of arriving she steadily begins hearing strange voices. The new owners learn that a young invalid girl was believed to have been murdered 40 years previously in the house – and their preconceptions of the supernatural are challenged.
The Day Will Dawn
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
, 1h40
Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Roland Culver
Roles Army Sergeant
Rating60% 3.0489753.0489753.0489753.0489753.048975
As the Germans invade Poland in September 1939, the former horse racing-correspondent Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later, he meets a Norwegian fisherman called Alstad in a sailors' bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors (singing "Rule Britannia", egged on by Metcalfe) and German ones (singing the Nazi Party anthem the Horst-Wessel-Lied). Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norway's territorial waters, during which they sight the Altmark and are fired upon by a German U boat, despite Norway's neutrality. They then come back to his home port of Langedal, and Metcalfe goes to Oslo to report this to the British embassy there, despite the best efforts of the German Kommandant and the German-sympathising local police chief Gunter. There Metcalfe meets Lockwood en route back to England from the Winter War in Finland. It was Lockwood who had got him the foreign correspondent job at the outbreak of war, but he now passes on the news to Metcalfe that he has been fired from it for sailing out with the fisherman rather than staying on dry land where the paper can contact him. Metcalfe informs the embassy, and also warns his paper of signs that a German war on Norway is imminent. Alstad's daughter Kari (who had accompanied them on their voyage) also meets him to tell him of suspicious German merchant ships at Bergen which her father suspects have troops on board.
Jeannie
Jeannie (1941)
, 1h41
Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Michael Redgrave, Edward Chapman, Barbara Mullen, Hilda Bayley, Wilfrid Lawson, Gus McNaughton
Rating69% 3.450253.450253.450253.450253.45025
Jeannie McLean (Mullen) is a Scottish girl who finds that she has received an inheritance. The film follows her adventures of finding her family castle and being romanced by different men.
Facing the Music
Facing the Music (1941)

Directed by Maclean Rogers
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Driver, Chili Bouchier, Wally Patch, Gus McNaughton, Ruby Miller, Eliot Makeham
Roles Illusionist

An incompetent man struggles to hold down a series of jobs.
I Killed the Count
I Killed the Count (1939)

Directed by Friedrich Zelnik
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ben Lyon, Terence De Marney, Athole Stewart, Barbara Blair, Antoinette Cellier, David Burns
Rating60% 3.015053.015053.015053.015053.01505
Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it more or less straight as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson, at present trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Mattoni (Leslie Perrins). The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses. In fact, four different people come forth to confess to the killing – each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
Q Planes
Q Planes (1939)
, 1h22
Directed by Jack Clayton, Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson, George Curzon, Patrick Aherne, George Merritt
Roles Bleinkinsop
Rating64% 3.2367953.2367953.2367953.2367953.236795
Advanced British aircraft prototypes, carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay (Valerie Hobson), a newspaper reporter, who is working undercover in the works canteen used by the crews at the Barrett & Ward Aircraft Company.