Eric Portman — Actor (12)
The Spider and the Fly (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Spider and the Fly
director: Robert Hamer actor: Eric Portman / Guy Rolfe
other title: Il ragno e la mosca / Der Meisterdieb von Paris
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
West 11 (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
West 11
director: Michael Winner actor: Alfred Lynch / Kathleen Breck
other title: Distrito 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
The Prince and the Pauper (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Prince and the Pauper
director: William Keighley actor: Errol Flynn / Claude Rains
other title: Il principe e il povero / Mit eiserner Faust
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
director: George King actor: Tod Slaughter / Marjorie Taylor
other title: Crimen y pasión
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.
We Dive at Dawn (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
We Dive at Dawn
director: Anthony Asquith actor: John Mills / Eric Portman
other title: La tigre del mare / Plongée à l'aube
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...
49th Parallel (1941) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
49th Parallel
other title: Gli invasori - 49° parallelo / 49. breddegrad
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.