Jimmy Godden
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Roles you can spot in Whatthemovie snapshots
Feather Your Nest
An employee of a record manufacturing company comes up with a hit song.
Someone at the Door
A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Their plans to launch his journalistic career by faking her murder go awry when they fall foul of a gang of jewel thieves trying to find the loot stashed somewhere in the house.
Living Dangerously
When Doctor Stanley Norton finds his partner, Doctor Henry Pryor, has been illegally selling drugs to addicts, he dissolves the partnership. Seeking revenge, Pryor accuses Norton of misconduct with Pryor's wife, Helen.
It's a Bet
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
Dandy Dick
A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.
The Outcast
When the box-office manager takes off with all the money belonging to a traveling theatre-troupe, the show's promoters and leading performers, Bill Potter and Jim Truman, have to sell off of the show's assets to a theatre in Newcastle in order to pay the actors.
The Luck of a Sailor
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
The Great Defender
Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has taken its toll and if Sir Douglas does not take off for several months he stands a good chance of dying soon.
Their Night Out
Silly ass Jimmy (Claude Hulbert) gets drunk in a nightclub, and is then confused with the leader of a gang of robbers.
Crime on the Hill
Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
The Last Coupon
A frugal coal miner in the north of England turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools.
Money Talks
Comedy of Jewish domestic life depicts an impecunious old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need. He begins to gamble with his savings, but things don't seem to work in his favor.
His Wife's Mother
Recently married Henry is accused by his mother-in-law of seeing a showgirl, the ex-girlfriend of a close friend. Manservant Joy (Gus McNaughton) attempts to help matters with a scheme involving Henry posing as his own double.