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Russell Waters
Actor 1908 - 1982

Russell Waters

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Scottish actor. He mainly played small, but memorable parts in UK productions.

Filmography

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35 titles
The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

Robin Hardy 1973 1h 33m 7.6

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Endless Night

Endless Night

Sidney Gilliat 1972 1h 39m 6.0

Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Delbert Mann 1971 1h 40m 6.0

In eighteenth century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.

The Devil Rides Out

The Devil Rides Out

Terence Fisher 1968 1h 36m 6.7

The Duc de Richeleau and his friend Rex discover their young charge Simon has fallen in with the powers of Darkness and is about to be baptized into the service of evil. The Duc is fortunately versed in such matters and finds himself locked in a duel with the deadly Mocata, disciple of the left-hand path.

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark

Anthony Mann 1965 2h 11m 5.8

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Crooks in Cloisters

Crooks in Cloisters

Jeremy Summers 1964 1h 37m 6.0

Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man

Jeremy Summers 1963 1h 36m 6.0

Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.

I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing

Ronald Neame 1963 1h 39m 6.0

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had.

Flat Two

Flat Two

Alan Cooke 1962 1h 6.0

When Louba, a crooked casino owner blackmails a young female gambler, her boyfriend breaks into Louba's flat to confront him, only to find himself interrupting a burglary and being accused on murder.

Marriage of Convenience

Marriage of Convenience

Clive Donner 1960 58m 6.0

An escaped convict discovers his girlfriend has married the detective who arrested him.

Danger Tomorrow

Danger Tomorrow

Terry Bishop 1960 1h 1m 6.0

A doctor and his wife move into an old house in an English village where he is to start a new job. Over the next few days his wife begins to experience strange visions which make her fear that her life is in danger.

Yesterday's Enemy

Yesterday's Enemy

Val Guest 1959 1h 35m 7.5

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre

Sidney Gilliat 1959 1h 35m

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy?

Next to No Time!

Next to No Time!

Henry Cornelius 1958 1h 29m 6.0

An unassuming planning engineer must negotiate an important loan while aboard the Queen Elizabeth en route to New York City, but his lack of confidence threatens to foil his plans.

The Man in the Sky

The Man in the Sky

Charles Crichton 1957 1h 27m 6.0

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.

Let's Be Happy

Let's Be Happy

Henry Levin 1957 1h 47m 6.0

An American salesman pursues an heiress from Vermont, who is in turn being wooed by a Scottish lord in financial need.

Interpol

Interpol

John Gilling 1957 1h 32m 6.0

International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.

Third Party Risk

Third Party Risk

Daniel Birt 1954 1h 3m 5.0

An American on vacation in Spain gets mixed up with a smuggling ring.

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

Joseph Losey 1954 1h 29m 7.0

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

The Maggie

The Maggie

Alexander Mackendrick 1954 1h 32m

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Lease of Life

Lease of Life

Charles Frend 1954 1h 34m 6.0

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly

Jack Lee 1953 1h 21m 7.0

Follows three women through their first day of freedom after they are released from prison.

The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea

Charles Frend 1953 2h 6m 6.0

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back.

Isn't Life Wonderful!

Isn't Life Wonderful!

Harold French 1953 1h 20m 6.0

In England, alcoholic Uncle Willie vexes his family. They let him buy a bike shop to woo American heiress Virginia, who loves Willie's nephew Frank.

Saturday Island

Saturday Island

Stuart Heisler 1952 1h 33m 6.0

In 1943, an Allied hospital ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.

The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit

Alexander Mackendrick 1951 1h 25m 7.9

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process.

Pool of London

Pool of London

Basil Dearden 1951 1h 25m 7.0

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North

Anthony Kimmins 1951 1h 33m 6.0

A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Raoul Walsh 1951 1h 57m 7.8

A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Victor Saville 1951 1h 20m

A ruthless London gang prompts Scotland Yard to recruit retired Bulldog Drummond. He infiltrates the gang with detective Helen, gaining their trust until their true identities are exposed, leading to their capture by the gang overlord.

The Magnet

The Magnet

Charles Frend 1950 1h 19m

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life

Frank Launder 1950 1h 21m

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

State Secret

State Secret

Sidney Gilliat 1950 1h 44m 7.0

In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.

Obsession

Obsession

Edward Dmytryk 1949 1h 36m 7.0

Dr. Clive Riordan's beautiful-but-flirty wife, "Storm", comes home one night in the company of an American diplomat, Bill Kronin. Riordan, obsessed with jealousy, determines to murder his most recent rival and plans, as only a psychiatrist would, to not only kill bill, but to commit the perfect crime in the process.

Dear Mr. Prohack

Dear Mr. Prohack

Thornton Freeland 1949 1h 31m 5.0

Arthur Prohack (Cecil Parker) is an official in the Treasury Department with a reputation for fiscal efficiency and running a tight ship. One day he finds out that a struggling businessman to whom he once loaned money used it to amass a fortune, and after his death he left much of it to Prohack.

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