Colin Tapley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Tapley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Samson and Delilah
as PrinceWhen strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks...
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The Dam Busters
as Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E.The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr...
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The Black Room
as Paul Hassel as a young lieutenantIn a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there...
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as BarrettIn the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom...
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The Sundowners
as Palmer (uncredited)In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep...
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Murder at the Vanities
as uncreditedShortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's...
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North West Mounted Police
as MountieTexas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...
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Peter Ibbetson
as Clerk (uncredited)When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to...
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Arizona
as Bart MasseyPhoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine...
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as DixonDrummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his...
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Angels One Five
as AdjutantThe year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a...
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Becky Sharp
as William DobbinThe first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was...
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The Light That Failed
as GardnerA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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Double Door
as Dr. John LucasA domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother...
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3 Steps to the Gallows
as Arnold WinslowA U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the...
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Thank You, Jeeves!
as Tom BrockJeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
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If I Were King
as Jehan Le LoupKing Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in...
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Souls at Sea
as Donaldson (uncredited)Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...
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Maid of Salem
as Roger's Friend (Uncredited)When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...
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The Last Outpost
as Lieutenant PrescottDuring WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem...
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King of Gamblers
as JoeWorking for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead...
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Wings of Danger
as Inspector MaxwellA former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being...
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Strongroom
as HaynesDuring a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks...
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Barbados Quest
as Lord ValchristSpecial investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage...
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The Safecracker
as Colonel Charles MercerSafe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
as Studio ManagerThe star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the...
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Wide Boy
as ManneringPicking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
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The Return of Sophie Lang
as LarryIn order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes...
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So Evil, So Young
as uncreditedA young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the...
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Man Accused
as InspectorSoon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh),...
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Cloudburst
as Inspector DavisCanadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes...
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The Diamond Wizard
as Sir Stafford BeachWhile in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury...
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The Steel Key
as Dr. CrabtreeAn adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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Night of Mystery
as Chester GreeneOne of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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Stranger in Town
as Henry RylandA vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory...
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Storm Over Bengal
as HallettThis being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed...
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Noose for a Lady
as Major FergussonAn amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of...
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Strange Stories
as Charles ('Strange Journey')'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'....
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The Crime Nobody Saw
as Dr. BrooksThree playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
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Early to Bed
as Doctor VernonChester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years...
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Emergency
as Dr. LloydWhen a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the...
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My Marriage
as Sir Philip BurleighWhen gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who...
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Compelled
as InspectorAn ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers...
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The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
as Lord VantonThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced...
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The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
as EverardThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced...
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