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Tom Walls
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the…
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From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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1949
The Interrupted Journey
Movie Mr. Clayton
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1949
Maytime in Mayfair
Movie Inspector
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1948
Spring in Park Lane
Movie Uncle Joshua Howard
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1947
While I Live
Movie Nehemiah
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1947
The Master of Bankdam
Movie Simeon Crowther Sr.
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1946
This Man Is Mine
Movie Philip Ferguson
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1945
Johnny Frenchman
Movie Net Pomeroy
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1944
Love Story
Movie Tom Tanner
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1944
The Halfway House
Movie Capt. Meadows
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1943
They Met in the Dark
Movie Christopher Child
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1943
Undercover
Movie Kossan Petrovitch
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1938
Old Iron
Movie Sir Henry Woodstock
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1938
Crackerjack
Movie Jack Drake
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1938
Second Best Bed
Movie Victor Garnett
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1938
Strange Boarders
Movie Tommy Blythe
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1937
For Valour
Movie Doubleday
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1936
Dishonour Bright
Movie Stephen Champion
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1936
Pot Luck
Movie
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1935
Foreign Affaires
Movie Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
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1935
Stormy Weather
Movie Sir Duncan Craggs
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1935
Me and Marlborough
Movie John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
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1935
Fighting Stock
Movie Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley
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1934
Dirty Work
Movie Director
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1934
Lady in Danger
Movie Richard Dexter
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1934
A Cup of Kindness
Movie Fred Tutt
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1933
Turkey Time
Movie Max Wheeler
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1933
A Cuckoo in the Nest
Movie Maj. George Bone
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1933
Leave It to Smith
Movie Smith
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1933
The Blarney Stone
Movie Tim Fitzgerald
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1932
Thark
Movie Sir Hector Benbow
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1932
Leap Year
Movie Sir Peter Trallion
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1932
A Night Like This
Movie Michael Mahoney
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1930
Tons of Money
Movie Director
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1930
Plunder
Movie Freddie Malone
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1930
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Movie Geoffrey Lymes
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1930
On Approval
Movie Duke of Bristol
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1930
Rookery Nook
Movie Clive Popkiss
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1924
Tons of Money
Movie Producer
