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Roddy Hughes is a Actor British born on 18 june 1891 at Porthmadog (United-kingdom)
Roddy Hughes (19 June 1891 – 22 February 1970) was an English film and television actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1932 and 1961.
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Birth name Rodri Henry Hughes
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 june 1891 at Porthmadog (United-kingdom)
Death 22 february 1970 (at 78 years) at Sussex (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 june 1891 at Porthmadog (United-kingdom)
Death 22 february 1970 (at 78 years) at Sussex (United-kingdom)
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The House in Marsh Road (1960)
, 1h10Directed by Montgomery Tully
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Samuel John Kydd, Llewellyn Rees
Roles Daniels
Rating59%
A spirit haunts a house on a lonely country road.
The Spaniard's Curse (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Ralph Kemplen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern, Susan Beaumont, Ralph Truman, Henry Oscar
Roles Arthur Jody
Rating57%
Guy Stevenson (Basil Dignam) is a British man of Spanish heritage wrongly convicted of murder. On being given the death sentence, he places a curse on the judge (Michael Hordern) and jury. Two of the jurors then die mysteriously, and suspicion falls on Stevenson, but he himself also dies. The judge and his daughter Margaret attempt to solve the mystery and uncover the real killer.
Sea Wife (1957)
, 1h22Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Harold Goodwin
Roles Club Barman
Rating57%
Michael Cannon (Richard Burton) returns to London after the Second World War and places advertisements in the personal column of various newspapers (The Daily Telegraph distributed miniaturised copies of the newspaper showing the 'ad' at U.K. cinemas after each performance of the film), in which "Biscuit" tries to get in touch with "Sea Wife". Eventually Cannon, who is Biscuit, receives a letter summoning him to the Ely Retreat and Mental Home. There he meets an ill man nicknamed "Bulldog" (Basil Sydney). Bulldog tries to persuade Biscuit to give up the search. A flashback reveals the backstory.
, 2h47Directed by John Farrow, Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke
Roles (uncredited)
Rating66%
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
Not So Dusty (1956)
, 1h18Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Bill Owen, Leslie Dwyer, Joy Nichols, Wally Patch, Roddy Hughes, Ellen Pollock
Roles J.C. Layton
Rating53%
See How They Run (1955)
Directed by Leslie Arliss
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Ronald Shiner, Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dora Bryan, Richard Wattis
Roles Reverend Arthur Humphrey
Rating26%
One Jump Ahead (1955)
, 1h6Directed by Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Jill Adams, Roddy Hughes
Roles Mac
Rating59%
John Wesley (1954)
Directed by Norman Walker
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Leonard Sachs, Keith Pyott, John Witty, John Slater, Joss Ambler, Andrew Cruickshank
Rating68%
The Great Game (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Maurice Elvey
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors James Hayter, Dame Thora Hird, Diana Dors, John Laurie, Meredith Edwards, Jack Lambert
Roles Mr. Broderick
Rating61%
The chairman of a top-flight English football club makes an illegal approach to a rising star of a rival club. This is discovered by the football authorities and the Chairman is ultimately suspended from the game following the ensuing scandal.
The Final Test (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph, Adrianne Allen, Brenda Bruce
Roles Mr Harborne
Rating65%
The film is a comedy drama, set around leading cricketer Sam Palmer's last appearance for England. He desperately wants his son to be there at The Oval to witness this, but the son is more concerned with meeting a leading poet Alexander Whitehead. Whitehead, it turns out, is more interested in cricket. Whitehead takes Reggie along to the match, in time to see Sam get out for a duck.
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
, 1h23Directed by Anthony Pelissier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Kay Kendall
Roles Billings
Rating58%
When Mr Pedelty (Joseph Tomelty) leaves his firm, he is given a television set as a retirement present. At first he enjoys all the attention from his neighbours, but soon the attraction wears off, and he sells it on to a young married couple (Jack Watling and Peggy Cummins) living in the flat above him. They soon encounter the same problems, and again the set is passed on to several different characters all with the same results.
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 Jolly
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.
Hammer the Toff (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Valentine Dyall, John Robinson, Wally Patch, Roddy Hughes
Roles Jolly
Rating60%
On the train to the seaside resort of Brighthaven, Richard Rollison (Bentley) is sharing a carriage with an attractive young lady called Susan Lancaster (Dainton). The journey is rudely interrupted when the window of the carriage is shattered by a barrage of bullets. Richard learns from the shaken Susan that she is on her way to join an uncle on holiday, and offers to escort her safely to her hotel. They learn that her uncle has disappeared, but has left Susan a package. Later, Rollison happens to overhear a pair of shady characters discussing how to kidnap Susan. She explains that her uncle has developed a secret formula which sinister characters are keen to get their hands on, and they have been receiving threats of menace, hence the flight to Brighthaven.
Escape Route (1952)
, 1h17Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Raft, Sally Gray, Clifford Evans, Frederick Piper, Reginald Tate, Patricia Laffan
Roles Porter
Rating55%
An American, Steve Rossi, enters Britain by slipping past immigration at Heathrow Airport, leading to a national manhunt by the police. He is finally intercepted by Joan Miller, an MI5 agent, who takes him to her superiors. Rossi reveals himself to be an FBI agent posing as a nuclear scientist in an attempt to infiltrate a gang kidnapping western scientists and taking them across the Iron Curtain. His contact in London is a man named Michael Grand who has recently arranged the kidnap of an American. With MI5's assistance, Rossi monitors Grand and arranges a meeting with him. Growing increasingly suspicious of Rossi, Grand and his organisation make several attempts to kill him.
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
, 1h25Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Howard Marion-Crawford, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Green
Rating72%
Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and former Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the north of England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession with inventing an everlasting fibre. Whilst working as a labourer at the Birnley Mill, he accidentally becomes an unpaid researcher and invents an incredibly strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out. From this fabric, a suit is made—which is brilliant white because it cannot absorb dye and slightly luminous because it includes radioactive elements.