Ronald Adam

Born: 1896-12-29


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The Haunting

as Eldridge Harper
Released: 1963-08-21

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large,...

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Around the World in Eighty Days

as Club Steward
Released: 1956-10-17

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...

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The Ruling Class

as Lord
Released: 1972-09-13

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits...

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The Man Who Never Was

as Adams
Released: 1956-04-03

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before...

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Under Capricorn

as Mr. Riggs
Released: 1949-09-08

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister...

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The Lavender Hill Mob

as Turner
Released: 1951-06-28

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

as Adm. McCartney
Released: 1951-04-10

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during...

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Black Magic

as Court President
Released: 1949-08-19

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

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The Tomb of Ligeia

as Minister at Graveside
Released: 1964-11-29

Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter...

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The Million Pound Note

as Samuel Clements
Released: 1954-01-07

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...

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The Black Knight

as The Abbot
Released: 1954-08-26

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win...

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Q Planes

as Pollack - Aviation Engineer
Released: 1939-02-21

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

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Christopher Columbus

as Talavera
Released: 1949-10-12

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that...

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Green for Danger

as Dr. White
Released: 1946-12-07

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But...

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Reach for the Sky

as Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory
Released: 1956-07-05

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying...

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Please Turn Over

as Mr. Appleton
Released: 1959-12-17

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged...

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Malta Story

as Operations Room Controller
Released: 1953-06-01

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island,...

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The Lion Has Wings

as German Bomber Chief
Released: 1939-11-03

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

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And the Same to You

as Trout (as Ronald Adams)
Released: 1960-02-01

Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To...

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Zeppelin

as Prime Minister
Released: 1971-04-08

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable...

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Offbeat

as J. B. Wykeham
Released: 1961-01-01

When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of...

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Fortune in Diamonds

as Van Thaal
Released: 1951-03-07

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He...

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Angels One Five

as Group Controller
Released: 1952-03-19

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a...

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Sea Wife

as Army Padre
Released: 1957-08-20

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A...

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Laughter in Paradise

as Mr. Wagstaffe - Bank Manager (as Ronald Adams)
Released: 1951-06-01

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they...

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Obsession

as Talkative, balding club member
Released: 1949-08-03

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

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Journey Together

as Commanding Officer at Falcon Field
Released: 1945-10-01

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with...

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Pink String and Sealing Wax

as uncredited
Released: 1945-11-22

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a...

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Top Secret

as Barworth Controller
Released: 1952-11-10

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which...

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Take My Life

as Det Sgt Hawkins - Deaf Man
Released: 1947-05-30

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

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Mr. Denning Drives North

as Coroner
Released: 1951-12-18

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...

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Private's Progress

as Doctor at Medical
Released: 1956-02-17

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end...

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Diamond City

as uncredited
Released: 1949-09-20

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a...

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My Daughter Joy

as Col. Fogarty
Released: 1950-08-21

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son...

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Assignment Redhead

as Scammel / Dumetrius
Released: 1956-10-01

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a...

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The Naked Truth

as Chemist (uncredited)
Released: 1957-12-03

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the...

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The Beachcomber

as Sir Henry Johnstone (uncredited)
Released: 1954-08-10

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands...

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Kate Plus Ten

as Police Chief
Released: 1938-03-17

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike...

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Escape to Danger

as George Merrick
Released: 1943-10-18

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the...

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Seven Days to Noon

as Arthur Lytton, the Prime Minister
Released: 1950-10-30

An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to...

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Helter Skelter

as Director General of the BBC
Released: 1949-01-07

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

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Snowball

as Mr. King
Released: 1960-01-01

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a...

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The Bad Lord Byron

as Judge
Released: 1949-04-18

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to...

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The Late Edwina Black

as Head-Master
Released: 1951-03-31

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal...

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Three on a Spree

as Judge
Released: 1961-06-28

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a...

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The Foreman Went to France

as Sir Charles Fawcett, Managing Director
Released: 1942-06-22

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to...

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All Over the Town

as Sam Vane
Released: 1949-04-25

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War...

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Song of Norway

as Gade
Released: 1970-11-04

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard...

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The Drum

as Major Gregoff
Released: 1938-09-29

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey)...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Macleod
Released: 1948-10-26

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

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Strange Boarders

as Barstow
Released: 1938-05-01

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of...

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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

as Sir John Farthing
Released: 1959-03-10

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific...

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Hindle Wakes

as Mr. Nat Jeffcote
Released: 1952-11-10

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting...

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At the Villa Rose

as Mons. Besnard
Released: 1940-03-02

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves...

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The Surgeon's Knife

as Major Tilling
Released: 1957-10-01

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable...

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Who Killed the Cat?

as Gregory
Released: 1966-10-07

A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.

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Forbidden Cargo

as Mr. Bennett
Released: 1954-05-04

Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a...

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Kill Me Tomorrow

as Mr. Brook
Released: 1957-05-01

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

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Circumstantial Evidence

as Sir William Hanson QC
Released: 1952-10-16

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover,...

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Inspector Hornleigh

as Wittens
Released: 1939-03-07

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate....

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Postman's Knock

as Mr. Fordyce
Released: 1962-02-22

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his...

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Carry on Admiral

as First Sea Lord
Released: 1957-05-14

Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the...

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Two Letter Alibi

as Sir John Fawcett
Released: 1962-01-01

Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is...

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Shadow of the Past

as solicitor
Released: 1950-09-04

A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.

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Question of Love

as Le juge anglais
Released: 1978-10-18

Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his...

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The Golden Disc

as Mr. Dryden
Released: 1958-03-04

The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.

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Meet Maxwell Archer

as Nicolides
Released: 1940-02-17

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

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Fame Is the Spur

as Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1947-09-23

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately...

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Woman and the Hunter

as Inspector McGregor
Released: 1957-01-13

When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for...

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That Dangerous Age

as Prosecutor
Released: 1949-04-13

The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and...

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Tons of Trouble

as Psychiatrist
Released: 1956-04-09

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

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The Phantom Shot

as Caleb Horder
Released: 1947-09-09

A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through...

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The Man from Nowhere

as George Harvey
Released: 1975-01-01

The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director...

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Inside Information

as uncredited
Released: 1957-05-31

Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be...

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Johnny-on-the-Spot

as Insp. Beveridge
Released: 1954-01-21

An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.

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Flannelfoot

as Insp. Duggan
Released: 1953-11-01

Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his...

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Flannelfoot

as Inspector Duggan
Released: 1953-11-01

Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his...

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The Case of Charles Peace

as Counsel for Defence
Released: 1949-03-02

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's...

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The Avengers

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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Gideon's Way

as Mr. Baker
First aired: 1965-03-18

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...

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Gideon's Way

as Sir Robert Copthorne
First aired: 1965-03-18

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...

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The Main Chance

as Sir Charles Braithwaite
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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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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Mystery and Imagination

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-29

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Cardinal Campeggio
First aired: 1970-01-01

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization...

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Justice

as Sir William
First aired: 1971-10-08

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...

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