Syd Crossley

Born: 1885-11-17


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Cotton Queen

as Shearman
Released: 1937-06-01

The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up...

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Cheer Up

as Waiter
Released: 1936-02-01

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new...

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Atlantic

as Telegraphist
Released: 1929-11-15

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

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Penny Paradise

as Uncle Lancelot
Released: 1938-09-23

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his...

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The Squeaker

as Minor Role
Released: 1937-11-11

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any...

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Dandy Dick

as Wilkins
Released: 1935-03-01

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of...

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The Younger Generation

as Goldfish's Butler
Released: 1929-03-04

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by...

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Perfect Understanding

as Butler
Released: 1933-01-15

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That...

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Perfect Understanding

as Butler (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-15

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That...

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Honeymoon for Three

as PC Smithers
Released: 1935-08-13

In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young...

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Feather Your Nest

as Police Constable
Released: 1937-03-12

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

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The Gorilla

as Butler
Released: 1927-11-13

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

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Victoria the Great

as uncredited
Released: 1937-09-01

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with...

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The Blood Ship

as Cockney Bouncer
Released: 1927-07-18

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is...

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Come on George!

as Police Constable Cronley
Released: 1939-12-01

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an...

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Me and Marlborough

as Soldier
Released: 1935-07-22

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

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Loud Soup

as Snoops - the butler
Released: 1929-03-16

Loud Soup is a comedy short

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Sensation

as uncredited
Released: 1936-12-16

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more...

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Queen of Hearts

as Constable
Released: 1936-10-04

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to...

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Mama Behave

as The Chase Butler
Released: 1926-02-27

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to...

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Give Her a Ring

as uncredited
Released: 1934-06-11

A telephonist falls for her employer.

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Letting in the Sunshine

as Jenkyns
Released: 1933-02-01

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a...

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Leave It to Me

as Beach
Released: 1933-04-01

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents...

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It's a Bet

as Undetermined Role
Released: 1935-02-01

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month....

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Old Mother Riley

as Briggs’ Butler
Released: 1937-08-13

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan,...

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The Circus Kid

as Skelly's Runner
Released: 1928-10-07

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins...

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The Man Behind the Mask

as Policeman
Released: 1936-08-23

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly...

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Meet My Sister

as Butler
Released: 1933-08-18

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Fatal Warning

as Dawson
Released: 1929-02-15

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his...

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Over the Garden Wall

as Podds
Released: 1934-06-20

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put...

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Those Were the Days

as Wyke
Released: 1934-04-02

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a...

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One Good Turn

as uncredited
Released: 1936-10-11

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while...

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Suspense

as Cpl. Brown
Released: 1930-07-04

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the...

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Public Nuisance No. 1

as Policeman
Released: 1936-02-15

Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the...

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Pearls Bring Tears

as Bankes
Released: 1937-03-20

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only...

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Keep Smiling

as Ryan's Butler
Released: 1925-09-06

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life...

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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride

as Townsman
Released: 1925-07-30

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was...

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A Perfect Gentleman

as The Valet
Released: 1928-01-15

Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a...

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The Man in the Mirror

as Porter
Released: 1936-10-15

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life...

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We're Going to Be Rich

as Jake
Released: 1938-07-03

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South...

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Men Like These

as uncredited
Released: 1932-01-30

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole...

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The Flying Fool

as Hicks
Released: 1931-08-01

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a...

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The Mayor's Nest

as Milkman
Released: 1932-06-27

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.

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The Cowboy Kid

as Sheriff
Released: 1928-07-14

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty...

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The Golden Web

as Butler
Released: 1926-09-01

After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a...

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One Hour Married

as uncredited
Released: 1927-02-27

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.

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Meet Maxwell Archer

as Perkins
Released: 1940-02-17

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

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You Made Me Love You

as Bleak
Released: 1933-10-01

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter...

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The Middle Watch

as Sentry
Released: 1930-10-27

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Hate Ship

as uncredited
Released: 1929-12-01

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a...

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Save a Little Sunshine

as Assistant
Released: 1938-10-01

Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward...

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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

as Warder Jackson
Released: 1931-12-26

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for...

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The King's Cup

as Crossley
Released: 1933-02-02

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.'...

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