Arthur Young

Arthur Young was an English actor, notable for roles including Gladstone in the 1951 The Lady with a Lamp. He can be seen as a window cleaner in the film Radio Parade of 1935. He regularly appeared in BBC radio plays and was a member of the Corporation’s Drama Repertory Company in the late 1950s.

No Limit (1935)

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. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monty Banks
CAST:  George Formby  •  Florence Desmond  •  Howard Douglas  •  Beatrix Fielden-Kaye

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. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monty Banks
CAST:  George Formby  •  Florence Desmond  •  Howard Douglas  •  Beatrix Fielden-Kaye

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul L. Stein
CAST:  Robert Beatty  •  Rona Anderson  •  Clifford Evans  •  Edward Lexy

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul L. Stein
CAST:  Robert Beatty  •  Rona Anderson  •  Clifford Evans  •  Edward Lexy

Five Days (1954)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Montgomery Tully
CAST:  Dane Clark  •  Cecile Chevreau  •  Paul Carpenter  •  Thea Gregory

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Montgomery Tully
CAST:  Dane Clark  •  Cecile Chevreau  •  Paul Carpenter  •  Thea Gregory

Shy Guy (1947)

Phil, a student who recently transferred into his high school, keeps to himself a lot, spending time in his basement building radios and record players. His dad notices that he has no friends, and tells him that, like the electronic parts he assembles, "you have to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ted Peshak
CAST:  Mike Wallace  •  Dick York  •  Frank Ferguson  •  Arthur Young

Phil, a student who recently transferred into his high school, keeps to himself a lot, spending time in his basement building radios and record players. His dad notices that he has no friends, and tells him that, like the electronic parts he assembles, "you have to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ted Peshak
CAST:  Mike Wallace  •  Dick York  •  Frank Ferguson  •  Arthur Young

Isn't Life Wonderful! (1954)

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold French
CAST:  Peter Asher  •  Cecil Parker  •  Eileen Herlie  •  Donald Wolfit

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold French
CAST:  Peter Asher  •  Cecil Parker  •  Eileen Herlie  •  Donald Wolfit

The Root of All Evil (1947)

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brock Williams
CAST:  Phyllis Calvert  •  Michael Rennie  •  John McCallum  •  Brefni O'Rorke

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brock Williams
CAST:  Phyllis Calvert  •  Michael Rennie  •  John McCallum  •  Brefni O'Rorke

The Lady with a Lamp (1951)

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Wilcox
CAST:  Anna Neagle  •  Michael Wilding  •  Gladys Young  •  Felix Aylmer

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Wilcox
CAST:  Anna Neagle  •  Michael Wilding  •  Gladys Young  •  Felix Aylmer

Lorna Doone (1934)

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dean
CAST:  Victoria Hopper  •  John Loder  •  Margaret Lockwood  •  Roy Emerton

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dean
CAST:  Victoria Hopper  •  John Loder  •  Margaret Lockwood  •  Roy Emerton

Stranger from Venus (1954)

Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Burt Balaban
CAST:  Patricia Neal  •  Helmut Dantine  •  Cyril Luckham  •  Willoughby Gray

Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Burt Balaban
CAST:  Patricia Neal  •  Helmut Dantine  •  Cyril Luckham  •  Willoughby Gray

The Gelignite Gang (1956)

A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Searle
CAST:  Wayne Morris  •  Sandra Dorne  •  Patrick Holt  •  Eric Pohlmann

A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Searle
CAST:  Wayne Morris  •  Sandra Dorne  •  Patrick Holt  •  Eric Pohlmann

Portrait from Life (1948)

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Mai Zetterling  •  Robert Beatty  •  Guy Rolfe  •  Herbert Lom

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Mai Zetterling  •  Robert Beatty  •  Guy Rolfe  •  Herbert Lom

San Demetrio London (1943)

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Frend
CAST:  Walter Fitzgerald  •  Ralph Michael  •  Neville Mapp  •  Barry Letts

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Frend
CAST:  Walter Fitzgerald  •  Ralph Michael  •  Neville Mapp  •  Barry Letts

My Brother Jonathan (1948)

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold French
CAST:  Michael Denison  •  Dulcie Gray  •  Ronald Howard  •  Stephen Murray

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold French
CAST:  Michael Denison  •  Dulcie Gray  •  Ronald Howard  •  Stephen Murray

21 Days (1940)

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dean
CAST:  Vivien Leigh  •  Leslie Banks  •  Laurence Olivier  •  Francis L. Sullivan

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dean
CAST:  Vivien Leigh  •  Leslie Banks  •  Laurence Olivier  •  Francis L. Sullivan

An Inspector Calls (1954)

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Hamilton
CAST:  Alastair Sim  •  Jane Wenham  •  Brian Worth  •  Eileen Moore

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Hamilton
CAST:  Alastair Sim  •  Jane Wenham  •  Brian Worth  •  Eileen Moore

Victoria the Great (1937)

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Wilcox
CAST:  Anna Neagle  •  Adolf Wohlbrück  •  Walter Rilla  •  H.B. Warner

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Wilcox
CAST:  Anna Neagle  •  Adolf Wohlbrück  •  Walter Rilla  •  H.B. Warner

Read All About It (1945)

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  John Laurie  •  Joss Ambler  •  Frank Atkinson  •  Alfie Bass

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  John Laurie  •  Joss Ambler  •  Frank Atkinson  •  Alfie Bass

John of the Fair (1954)

Set in the fairgrounds of 18th century England, the story of a kidnapped heir who regains his rightful inheritance to title and estates with the help of his friends.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael McCarthy
CAST:  Hilda Barry  •  Sidney Bland  •  John Charlesworth  •  Tom Clegg

Set in the fairgrounds of 18th century England, the story of a kidnapped heir who regains his rightful inheritance to title and estates with the help of his friends.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael McCarthy
CAST:  Hilda Barry  •  Sidney Bland  •  John Charlesworth  •  Tom Clegg