Peter Gawthorne
- Title: Peter Gawthorne
- Popularity: 1.723
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1884-08-31
- Place of Birth: Queen's County, Ireland
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1 1934 HD
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...
5.8 1954 HD
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
4 1939 HD
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...
6.9 1936 HD
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
5.8 1935 HD
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
7.4 1939 HD
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated...
6.8 1938 HD
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...
6.8 1937 HD
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a...
7 1939 HD
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
1 1954 HD
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...
5.6 1952 HD
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...
5 1935 HD
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
6.1 1933 HD
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...
6.9 1941 HD
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...
6.3 1942 HD
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
7.6 1939 HD
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...
1 1934 HD
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
1 1929 HD
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry...
6.5 1945 HD
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...
5.5 1937 HD
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the...
4.5 1935 HD
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
5.2 1940 HD
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of...
7.3 1929 HD
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...
6.8 1937 HD
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
7 1937 HD
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
1 1934 HD
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help...
7.303 1939 HD
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
3 1932 HD
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...
7.3 1939 HD
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...
6.5 1931 HD
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong...
1 1939 HD
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
1 1946 HD
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
5.8 1937 HD
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
1 1936 HD
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been...
5 1940 HD
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
4.8 1936 HD
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...
1 1930 HD
The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog...
3.5 1950 HD
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...
1 1933 HD
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
7.7 1949 HD
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...
4 1930 HD
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
3.5 1931 HD
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...
1 1935 HD
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...
5.5 1937 HD
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...
1 1934 HD
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
1 1933 HD
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
7.1 1941 HD
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his...
1 1938 HD
A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...
5.5 1941 HD
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...
7.4 1941 HD
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...
5.7 1940 HD
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...
5.7 1941 HD
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...
6.5 1941 HD
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...
5 1937 HD
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her...
5 1940 HD
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
6 1944 HD
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...
5 1929 HD
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are...
1 1932 HD
A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....
1 1932 HD
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
7 1932 HD
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....
5.2 1932 HD
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
5 1937 HD
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....
6 1936 HD
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.
4 1939 HD
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
6.2 1942 HD
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...
5 1941 HD
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
6.5 1935 HD
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....
7.7 1936 HD
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...
6 1934 HD
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol...
5.5 1952 HD
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
1 1949 HD
After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.
1 1935 HD
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...
6 1942 HD
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...
6 1949 HD
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even...
5.4 1942 HD
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.