Holmes Herbert — Actor (20)
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Say It in French (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Say It in French
director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Ray Milland / Olympe Bradna …
other title: Soubrette / Sig det på fransk
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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Miss Pinkerton (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Miss Pinkerton
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Joan Blondell / George Brent …
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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British Intelligence (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
British Intelligence
director: Terry O. Morse actor: Boris Karloff / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: British Intelligence Service
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Calling Dr. Death (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Calling Dr. Death
director: Reginald Le Borg actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / Patricia Morison …
other title: El doctor Muerte
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Singapore (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Singapore
director: John Brahm actor: Fred MacMurray / Ava Gardner …
other title: Singapur / Singapour …
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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The House of Fear (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The House of Fear
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e la casa del terrore / Sherlock Holmes: Skrækkens hus …
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
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The Pearl of Death (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Pearl of Death
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e la perla della morte / Sherlock Holmes: Dødens perle …
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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The Verdict (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Verdict
director: Don Siegel actor: Sydney Greenstreet / Peter Lorre …
other title: La morte viene da Scotland Yard / Hier irrte Scotland Yard …
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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The Thirteenth Chair (1929) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Thirteenth Chair
director: Tod Browning actor: Conrad Nagel / Leila Hyams …
other title: La Treizième Chaise
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.