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Warburton Gamble is a Actor born on 16 december 1882 at London (United-kingdom)
Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble (December 16, 1882-August 27, 1945) was a British stage and film actor. Gamble spent a number of years working in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras. He played the role of Doctor Watson in the 1933 Sherlock Holmes film A Study in Scarlet. His final two films were at Ealing Studios.
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Birth name Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble
Birth 16 december 1882 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 27 august 1945 (at 62 years)
Birth 16 december 1882 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 27 august 1945 (at 62 years)
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Spare a Copper (1940)
, 1h17Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, Warburton Gamble, Bernard Lee, John Turnbull, George Merritt
Roles Sir Robert
Rating61%
Formby plays a bumbling War Reservist police officer called George Carter who aspires to become a member of the flying squad. The film is set in Merseyside where the battleship HMS Hercules is being built. A group of saboteurs are planning to destroy HMS Hercules by blowing it up. George manages to foil the saboteurs' attempts to destroy HMS Hercules, saving the battleship from being blown up by saboteurs. One of the saboteurs, called "Jake", is played by Bernard Lee.
Lonely Road (1936)
, 1h20Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Clive Brook, Warburton Gamble, Nora Swinburne, Victoria Hopper, Cecil Beresford Ramage, Laurence Hanray
Roles Fedden
Rating62%
Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
, 1h12Directed by Albert Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about disabilities, Films based on plays
Actors Basil Sydney, Enid Stamp Taylor, James Mason, Ian Colin, Warburton Gamble
Roles Tracy
Rating70%
A doctor invents a cure for blindness.
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
, 1h11Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, Alan Dinehart, Sr., J. M. Kerrigan, June Clyde, Wyndham Standing
Roles Dr. Watson
Rating56%
Les membres d'une société secrète londonienne succombent les uns après les autres dans de mystérieuses circonstances. Lorsque vient le tour du richissime Sir James Murphy, sa veuve désespérée fait appel aux services du détective Sherlock Holmes pour qu'il découvre ce qu'il est advenu de la fortune de son défunt mari...
Tonight Is Ours (1933)
, 1h15Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Byron, Paul Cavanagh, Ethel Griffies
Roles Alex
Rating63%
It tells the story of a princess who has an affair with another boyfriend before her marriage to a prince.
By Candlelight (1933)
, 1h10Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier, Lawrence Grant, Esther Ralston
Roles Baron von Ballin
Rating66%
During a European train journey, a nobleman's butler Josef (Paul Lukas) is mistaken for his employer Prince Alfred von Rommer (Nils Asther) by a beautiful woman, Marie (Elissa Landi), and he does nothing to disillusion her. In due course, the Prince himself arrives and is mistaken for his servant.
Child of Manhattan (1933)
, 1h10Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Jessie Ralph, Clara Blandick, Luis Alberni
Roles Stephen Eggleston
Rating63%
Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle (Nancy Carroll) attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill (John Boles), and when she becomes pregnant, they get married to avoid a scandal. When the baby dies at birth, Madeleine runs away to Mexico, to give Paul the divorce she thinks he wants. There, she meets "Panama Canal" Kelly (cowboy star Buck Jones), an old friend who proposed to her before he went west. Undeterred by her recent past, he asks her again to get married, and she eventually agrees. When Paul discovers where she is, he shows up just as the couple is about to be wed. When Panama overhears Madeleine confess her love to Paul, he bows out of the picture.
As You Desire Me (1932)
, 1h10Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays
Actors Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper, Rafaela Ottiano
Roles Baron
Rating62%
Budapest bar entertainer Zara (Greta Garbo) is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter (Erich von Stroheim). A strange man called Tony (Owen Moore) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno. Maria, Tony claims, had her memory destroyed during a World War I invasion 10 years ago. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Fast Life (1932)
, 1h22Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films
Actors William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel, Arthur Byron, Cliff Edwards, Warburton Gamble
Roles Halstead
Rating59%
Two people leave the US Navy after having served ten years as a sailor. Sandy is one of them and later invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run. When testing it, he accidentally sinks a boat and has to pay for it. Now he is broke and enters a boat contest. To win, he has to invent the fastest boat in the world.
Tonight or Never (1931)
, 1h20Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gloria Swanson, Constance Cummings, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Robert Greig
Roles Count Albert von Gronac
Rating65%
Nella Vargo (Swanson) is a Hungarian prima donna whose latest performances include singing Tosca in Venice. Although she is praised by the audience, her music teacher Rudig feels that she can not be the greatest opera singer in history until she performs in New York City. When she is criticized for not putting her soul into the song, she gets mad, until she suddenly notices a mysterious man walking on the street. She becomes smitten with the man, until Rudig claims that he is a gigolo whose latest client is Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni, a former diva with a notorious past.
Lights of London (1923)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Wanda Hawley, Warburton Gamble, Nigel Barrie, Mary Clare, Dorothy Fane
Roles Clifford Armytage
Dangerous Lies (1921)
, 1h6Directed by Paul Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors David Powell, Mary Glynne, Warburton Gamble
Roles Leonard Pearce
Rating68%
The Paliser Case (1920)
, 50minutesOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pauline Frederick, Alan Roscoe, Alec B. Francis, James Neill, A. Edward Sutherland, Tom Ricketts
Roles Monty Paliser
The Law of the Yukon (1920)
Directed by Charles Miller
Origin USA
Actors June Elvidge, Edward Earle, Bigelow Cooper, Warburton Gamble, Bird Millman
Roles Medford Delaney
Morgan Kleath, a young newspaper man from San Francisco, arrives in the Yukon to start a paper. His welcome is an insult from Joe Duke, a belligerent native, that results in the latter's first defeat and brews trouble to follow for Kleath. Goldie Meadows, the adopted daughter of Tim Meadows, keeper of the dance hall wins the heart of Kleath, increasing Duke's rage. A robbery instigated by associates of Duke leaves clues that point to Kleath as the guilty man. Claire Meredith, wife of the doctor, and Tiny Tess, a habitue of the dance hall, supply the weak souls to perish in the country's crushing power, and their two love affairs make side issues from the main romance of Kleath and Goldie. As the noose begins to threaten Kleath, his unfaithful wife arrives from 'Frisco to reveal his freedom from blame and breathes her last with the end of her testimony, permitting the union of the lovers.
A Society Exile (1919)
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elsie Ferguson, Julia Dean, Warburton Gamble, Zeffie Tilbury, William P. Carleton, Henry Stephenson
Roles Lord Bissett
Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication, Nora (Ferguson) is an American heiress who is courted by Lord Bissett (Gamble) while visiting England. She overhears Bissett discussing with his sister the need of Nora's money to replenish his fortune, so she leaves him and moves into a nearby