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C. Aubrey Smith
Actor 1863 - 1948

C. Aubrey Smith

London, England, UK

C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE) was an English born stage and screen actor, prominent in Hollywood films starting from the beginning of the sound era.

Filmography

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41 titles
Little Women

Little Women

Mervyn LeRoy 1949 2h 1m 7.0

The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.

Unconquered

Unconquered

Cecil B. DeMille 1947 2h 27m 5.0

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Terror by Night

Terror by Night

Roy William Neill 1946 1h 7.3

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown

Ernst Lubitsch 1946 1h 40m 8.8

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate..

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None

René Clair 1945 1h 38m 7.7

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

Madame Curie

Madame Curie

Mervyn LeRoy 1943 2h 4m 7.0

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab.

Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy

Julien Duvivier 1943 1h 33m 7.3

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Victor Fleming 1941 1h 53m 7.3

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

Mervyn LeRoy 1940 1h 48m 8.5

Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.

Rebecca

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock 1940 2h 10m 8.2

Rebecca is the first Hollywood film from Alfred Hitchcock and received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. A timeless tale of a woman who marries a widower and fears that she will never live up to the deceased wife. With excellently played rolls and a story that never seems wrong this film is a true classic.

Beyond Tomorrow

Beyond Tomorrow

A. Edward Sutherland 1940 1h 24m 5.0

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.

A Bill of Divorcement

A Bill of Divorcement

John Farrow 1940 1h 14m

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

Zoltan Korda 1939 2h 9m 6.5

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Five Came Back

Five Came Back

John Farrow 1939 1h 15m 8.0

A small and disparate band of passengers board a small charter plane to South America, but a storm crashes them into a jungle. Facing off against the natural elements, a tribe of angry headhunters,and each other, the ragtag group of survivors soon must make a harrowing choice when the extent of the crash is made clear.

Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man

W.S. Van Dyke 1939 1h 43m 5.5

An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in Nick and Nora (with new baby) to sort things out.

Four Men and a Prayer

Four Men and a Prayer

John Ford 1938 1h 25m 9.0

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie

John Ford 1937 1h 40m 6.0

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Alfred E. Green 1937 1h 20m 6.0

A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

John Cromwell 1937 1h 41m

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah

Richard Boleslawski 1936 1h 19m

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

George Cukor 1936 2h 5m

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

John Cromwell 1936 1h 42m 6.0

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

The Tunnel

The Tunnel

Maurice Elvey 1935 1h 34m

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Henry Hathaway 1935 1h 49m 8.0

In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt.

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger

Robert Florey 1935 1h 9m

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

China Seas

China Seas

Tay Garnett 1935 1h 27m 8.0

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress

Josef von Sternberg 1934 1h 44m 7.6
The House of Rothschild

The House of Rothschild

Alfred L. Werker 1934 1h 28m

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.

Gambling Lady

Gambling Lady

Archie Mayo 1934 1h 6m

Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Cecil B. DeMille 1934 1h 40m 7.0

Cleopatra as a firm ruler and military tactician who embarked on a ruthless rise to power. Cleopatra twice married brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony helped her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undid both of them.

The Barbarian

The Barbarian

Sam Wood 1933 1h 23m

An American tourist catches the eye of a disguised Arab prince who decides to kidnap her, then try to win her love.

Queen Christina

Queen Christina

Rouben Mamoulian 1933 1h 39m 7.0

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Morning Glory

Morning Glory

Lowell Sherman 1933 1h 14m

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?

Curtain at Eight

Curtain at Eight

E. Mason Hopper 1933 1h 8m 8.0

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.

Bombshell

Bombshell

Victor Fleming 1933 1h 36m

Sexpot film star Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) is at the top of the pile in Hollywood in this pre-code film directed by Victor Fleming But with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts and the studio PR honcho cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories, she decides to get a new image by trying all sorts of schemes which go awry.

Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch 1932 1h 23m 7.9

Trouble in Paradise is one of the most important films of Actor, Producer, and Director Ernst Lubitisch, and his personal favorite of all the films he’s made. A story of two thieves who fall in love and begin doing jobs together under the employment of a beautiful woman who stirs up the relationship.

Tarzan the Ape Man

Tarzan the Ape Man

W.S. Van Dyke 1932 1h 40m 7.3

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them.

Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight

Rouben Mamoulian 1932 1h 29m 10.0

A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

Trader Horn

Trader Horn

W.S. Van Dyke 1931 2h 2m

While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.

Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey

Basil Dean 1930 1h 38m 5.0

Two men plan revenge on a policeman who had had them convicted some years before.

Show People

Show People

King Vidor 1928 1h 19m 7.0

Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress.

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