Cecil Parker — Actor (19)
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The Comedy Man (1964) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Comedy Man
director: Alvin Rakoff actor: Kenneth More / Cecil Parker …
other title: Siempre hay un mañana
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Changed His Mind
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Boris Karloff / Anna Lee …
other title: Der Mann, der sein Gehirn austauschte / Cerveaux de rechange …
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
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Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Isn't Life Wonderful!
director: Harold French actor: Peter Asher / Cecil Parker …
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 love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
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The Woman in the Hall (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Woman in the Hall
director: Jack Lee actor: Ursula Jeans / Jean Simmons …
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Ralph Thomas actor: Dirk Bogarde / Dorothy Tutin …
other title: Verso la città del terrore / Zwei Städte …
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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The Magic Bow (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Magic Bow
director: Bernard Knowles actor: Stewart Granger / Phyllis Calvert …
other title: Paganini / El arco mágico
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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The Brain (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Brain
director: Freddie Francis actor: Anne Heywood / Peter van Eyck …
other title: L'uomo che vinse la morte / Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder …
After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.
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23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
23 Paces to Baker Street
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Van Johnson / Vera Miles …
other title: 23 passi dal delitto / Treogtyve skridt til Baker Street …
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
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The Citadel (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Citadel
director: King Vidor actor: Robert Donat / Rosalind Russell …
other title: La cittadella / Die Zitadelle …
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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I Was Monty's Double (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Was Monty's Double
director: John Guillermin actor: John Mills / Cecil Parker …
other title: La battaglia segreta di Montgomery / Montgomerys dobbeltgænger …
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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The Admirable Crichton (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Admirable Crichton
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Kenneth More / Diane Cilento …
other title: L'incomparabile Crichton / Zustände wie im Paradies …
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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The Constant Husband (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Constant Husband
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Rex Harrison / Kay Kendall …
other title: Sette mogli per un marito / So etwas lieben die Frauen …
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
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The Stars Look Down (1940) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Stars Look Down
director: Carol Reed actor: Michael Redgrave / Margaret Lockwood …
other title: E le stelle stanno a guardare / Die Sterne blicken herab …
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB Skybridge
Swiss Family Robinson
director: Ken Annakin actor: John Mills / Dorothy McGuire …
other title: Robinson nell'isola dei corsari / Familien Robinson og piraterne …
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.