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Peter Gawthorne is a Actor born on 31 august 1884 at County Laois (Irlande)
Peter Gawthorne (1 September 1884 – 17 March 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in Will Hay films. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-upon bit part actors during the 1940s and 50s.
He was born in 1884 in Queen's County in Ireland, but spent most of his career in England. After two years at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Gawthorne began a career on the London stage, eventually running up over twenty years experience on the stage. His debut was in 1906, a walking on part at His Majesty's Theatre, London. He was featured in the role of Albany Pope, receiving good notices, in the hit musical The Boy in 1917.
He worked for a number of companies but, in particular, Gainsborough Studios. He also toured Australia, South Africa and Americas, going into films in America before returning to Britain. Gawthorne also studied singing.
He worked extensively in cinema often playing military officers and stern, authority figures, many of whom frequently clashed with the bumbling idiots played by Will Hay and other well-known comedians such as George Formby, The Crazy Gang, Jessie Matthews, Jack Hulbert, Alastair Sim and Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch.
He also worked with a number of famous straight actors including George Arliss, Errol Flynn and Leslie Banks.
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Birth 31 august 1884 at County Laois (Irlande)
Death 17 march 1962 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Death 17 march 1962 (at 77 years) at London (United-kingdom)
He was born in 1884 in Queen's County in Ireland, but spent most of his career in England. After two years at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Gawthorne began a career on the London stage, eventually running up over twenty years experience on the stage. His debut was in 1906, a walking on part at His Majesty's Theatre, London. He was featured in the role of Albany Pope, receiving good notices, in the hit musical The Boy in 1917.
He worked for a number of companies but, in particular, Gainsborough Studios. He also toured Australia, South Africa and Americas, going into films in America before returning to Britain. Gawthorne also studied singing.
He worked extensively in cinema often playing military officers and stern, authority figures, many of whom frequently clashed with the bumbling idiots played by Will Hay and other well-known comedians such as George Formby, The Crazy Gang, Jessie Matthews, Jack Hulbert, Alastair Sim and Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch.
He also worked with a number of famous straight actors including George Arliss, Errol Flynn and Leslie Banks.
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Scruffy (1980)
Directed by Randall Faye, Charles August Nichols
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Romance
Actors Nancy McKeon, Michael Bell, Jack Melford, June Foray, Alan Young, Toni Edgar-Bruce
Roles Chairman
Rating58%
Five Days (1954)
, 1h11Directed by Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dane Clark, Paul Carpenter, Thea Gregory, Anthony Forwood, Howard Marion-Crawford, Arthur Young
Roles Bowman
Rating60%
James Nevill, a nearly bankrupt businessman, hires his best friend to kill him so his wife can collect on his life insurance. After his business takes a sudden upswing he changes his mind, but he must get to the killer and tell him so before the killer gets to him first. Nevill suffers several near misses before learning that it is partner and another who really want to kill him, not his friend whom they have kidnapped and framed. In the end, the villains shoot each other.
Paul Temple Returns (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Robert Urquhart
Roles Sir Graham Forbes
Rating56%
Aspiring novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple begins investigating the case of a famous unsolved murder and ends up in a mansion full of snakes. With the aid of his wife Steve, he eventually solves the murder, and gets renown for his newest book as well.
Salute the Toff (1952)
, 1h15Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Valentine Dyall, Shelagh Fraser, Arthur Hill, Michael Golden
Roles Mortimer Harvey
Rating57%
The Honourable Richard Rollison (Bentley) is a well-known private detective who has friends and contacts in all echelons of society from the wealthy West End set to the lowest East End hovels. He likes to take on cases on behalf of underdogs, and is feared by the criminal underworld for his fearsome reputation of always getting his man.
Death Is a Number (1951)
Genres Horror
Actors Terence Alexander, Peter Gawthorne, Ingeborg von Kusserow
Roles James Gregson
Rating52%
A man is persecuted by the number 9.
Soho Conspiracy (1950)
, 1h25Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Zena Marshall, Peter Gawthorne, John Witty, Ian Colin, David Hurst, Noel Coleman
Roles Father Shaney
Rating37%
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
, 1h46Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton
Roles First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
Rating79%
In Edwardian Britain, Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), tenth Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting his death by hanging the next morning. Most of the film consists of a flashback in which Louis narrates the events leading to his imprisonment.
The Case of Charles Peace (1949)
Directed by Norman Lee
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Valentine Dyall, Michael Martin Harvey, Chili Bouchier, Ronald Adam, Peter Gawthorne, Hamilton Deane
Roles Mr. Justice Lopes
Rating60%
High Jinks in Society (1949)
Directed by John Guillermin
Genres Comedy
Actors Moore Marriott, Michael Ward, Peter Gawthorne
Roles Jenkins
After foiling a robbery, a window cleaner is hired by an aristocrat to protect their valuables with comic results.
This Man Is Mine (1946)
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Tom Walls, Glynis Johns, Hugh McDermott, Nova Pilbeam, Barry Morse, Ambrosine Phillpotts
Roles Businessman
Rating60%
Murder in Reverse? (1945)
, 1h20Directed by Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Chili Bouchier, Brefni O'Rorke, John Slater, Dinah Sheridan
Roles Crossley's Guest
Rating68%
After many years serving a prison sentence for a murder he didn't commit, a man tries to seek the truth behind the crime and search out the real culprit. This has complex consequences. His life has been altered as he was taken from his beloved daughter (Clark) who has now grown up not knowing her true identity (Sheridan as an adult). He seeks revenge on his awful degenerate wife (Bouchier) and the man he was accused of murdering.
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
, 1h24Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister, Mary Clare, Richard Attenborough, Niall MacGinnis
Rating59%
Un comptable se trouve obligé de trouver un deuxième travail dans un champ de courses au guichet des paris. Il va se trouver mêlé aux agissements de criminels.
Bell-Bottom George (1944)
, 1h37Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Formby, Reginald Purdell, Anne Firth, Peter Murray-Hill, Dennis Wyndham, Eliot Makeham
Roles Adm. Sir William Coltham
Rating58%
George Blake (Formby) is a waiter with ambitions to join the Navy, although he's been rejected several times, because of a weak heart. But during an air raid he's mistaken for a sailor because he's wearing the clothes of a navy friend who's borrowed his to go to a Lock-in at a pub. George is spotted by military police who think he is AWOL and escort him back to Naval barracks. He impresses the sailors there with his songs and ukulele playing, and is recruited to play at the "Spick and Span" troop radio concert in London. Somehow, along the way, he stumbles on a group of Nazi spies using a taxidermists shop as a front, and foils their plot to blow up a British submarine, "The Firefly". He also impresses and wins the heart of Pat (Anne Firth}, the Wren he's fallen for.
We'll Meet Again (1943)
, 1h24Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Vera Lynn, Patricia Roc, Ronald Ward, Donald Gray, Frederick Leister, Brefni O'Rorke
Rating59%
The film is about a young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II and then discovers that people like her singing voice. Although she's reluctant at first to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She meets a young musician who composes classical music and who turns his nose up at modern vulgar popular music, but she believes he can be a success at it and sets out to turn him around.
Women Aren't Angels (1943)
, 1h25Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Alfred Drayton, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Peggy Novak, Peter Gawthorne, Ralph Michael, John Stuart
Roles Colonel
Rating60%
Music publishers Wilmer Popday and Alfred Bandle find themselves unwittingly embroiled in an espionage adventure, when they go away on manoeuvres with the Home Guard.