Tom Walls
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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as Jack DrakeLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of...
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as Geoffrey LymesGeoffrey and his wife Anne are trapped in a stifling marriage, which neither feels able to...
Movie pageTurkey Time
as Max WheelerA group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for...
Movie pagePlunder
as Freddie MaloneA comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
Movie pagePot Luck
as uncreditedA retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final...
Movie pageA Cup of Kindness
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as uncreditedSir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French...
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