John Longden

Born: 1900-11-11

John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.


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Jamaica Inn

as Captain Johnson (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-11

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to...

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Young and Innocent

as Det. Insp. Kent
Released: 1937-11-01

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Raven (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-28

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who...

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A Matter of Life and Death

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-15

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute,...

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The Skin Game

as Charles Hornblower
Released: 1931-02-26

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

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Blackmail

as Detective Frank Webber
Released: 1929-07-28

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in...

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Anna Karenina

as Gen. Serpuhousky
Released: 1948-01-22

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to...

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Quatermass 2

as Chief Inspector Lomax
Released: 1957-05-24

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

as Ground Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1942-04-24

On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down...

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Q Planes

as John Peters, a Pilot
Released: 1939-02-21

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter...

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The Ship That Died of Shame

as Detective
Released: 1955-04-19

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into...

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The Silver Fleet

as Jost Meertens
Released: 1943-03-15

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates...

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Elstree Calling

as Himself
Released: 1930-02-06

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live...

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Pool of London

as DI Williams
Released: 1951-02-20

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

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The Man Who Finally Died

as Munch
Released: 1963-12-01

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long...

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The Lion Has Wings

as Unnamed Character
Released: 1939-11-03

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the...

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Contraband

as Passport officer
Released: 1940-05-11

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British...

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Piccadilly

as Man from China (uncredited)
Released: 1929-02-01

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to...

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Juno and the Paycock

as Charles Bentham
Released: 1930-06-29

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life,...

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Frozen Alive

as Prof. Hubbard
Released: 1964-12-01

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject....

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Colonel O'Sullivan
Released: 1948-10-26

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the...

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The Magic Box

as Speaker in Connaught Rooms
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Dangerous Cargo

as Worthington
Released: 1954-05-01

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal...

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Alias John Preston

as Richard Sandford
Released: 1955-12-14

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good...

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Atlantic

as Lanchester
Released: 1929-11-15

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic"...

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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

as Mortimer Digby
Released: 1947-10-30

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion...

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Meet Mr. Callaghan

as Jeremy Meraulton
Released: 1954-06-01

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

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Murder on the Second Floor

as Hugh Bromilow
Released: 1932-03-04

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

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The Elusive Pimpernel

as The Abbot
Released: 1950-11-07

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

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So Evil, So Young

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-01

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the...

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The Black Widow

as Mr. Kemp
Released: 1951-10-22

Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared

as Sherlock Holmes
Released: 1951-04-01

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate...

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Two Worlds

as Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky
Released: 1930-07-28

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his...

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Innocent Sinners

as Admiral
Released: 1958-03-25

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny...

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The Gaunt Stranger

as Inspector Bliss
Released: 1938-10-27

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must...

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Thoroughbred

as Bill Peel
Released: 1936-05-09

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling...

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The Last Post

as David / Martin
Released: 1929-01-11

'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.'...

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Tower of Terror

as Commander
Released: 1941-12-27

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes...

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Two Crowded Hours

as Harry Fielding
Released: 1931-07-08

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put...

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Rynox

as Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik
Released: 1931-11-04

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the...

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Unpublished Story

as Metcalf
Released: 1942-08-10

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace...

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The Flame of Love

as Lieutenant Boris Boriskoff
Released: 1930-03-07

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides'...

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Hindle Wakes

as Boyfriend
Released: 1931-10-02

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on...

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The Silence of Dean Maitland

as Dean Maitland
Released: 1934-05-12

Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a...

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The Glad Eye

as Floquet
Released: 1927-06-01

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find...

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Children of Chance

as Jeffrey
Released: 1930-11-20

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model...

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The Adventures of Dusty Bates

as Tod Jenkins
Released: 1947-09-01

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by...

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Palais De Danse

as No. 1
Released: 1928-07-27

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's...

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Born Lucky

as Frank Dale
Released: 1933-04-05

A humble girl's rise to fame.

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The Last Load

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-01

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries....

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Death by Design

as Inspector Slade
Released: 1943-01-23

Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide...

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You Know What Sailors Are

as uncredited
Released: 1928-12-14

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The Wickham Mystery

as Harry Crawford
Released: 1931-10-19

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as The Abbot
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Archbishop
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Ned
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Count Leger
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Gyles of Wren
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Lord Blackstone
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Chambertin
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Walter Fitzurse
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Wulfric
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Tailor
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Walter De Lys
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Hodges
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Adventures of William Tell

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-15

The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on...

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Interpol Calling

as Lord Ruskington
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-02-20

The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very...

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Man from Interpol

as Superintendent Mercer
First aired: 1960-01-30

From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in...

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Man from Interpol

as Mercer
First aired: 1960-01-30

From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in...

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