Tom Walls

Born: 1883-02-17

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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They Met in the Dark

as Christopher Child
Released: 1943-08-11

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him...

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Maytime in Mayfair

as Inspector
Released: 1949-05-24

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class...

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The Halfway House

as Capt. Meadows
Released: 1944-02-01

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a...

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Strange Boarders

as Tommy Blythe
Released: 1938-05-01

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

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Johnny Frenchman

as Net Pomeroy
Released: 1945-10-29

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one...

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Love Story

as Tom Tanner
Released: 1944-11-20

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to...

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Pot Luck

as uncredited
Released: 1936-04-01

A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final...

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Undercover

as Kossan Petrovitch
Released: 1943-07-26

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the...

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Dishonour Bright

as Stephen Champion
Released: 1936-09-21

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he...

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Stormy Weather

as uncredited
Released: 1935-08-01

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French...

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The Interrupted Journey

as Mr. Clayton
Released: 1949-10-11

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is...

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Me and Marlborough

as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
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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A Night Like This

as Michael Mahoney
Released: 1932-03-16

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club....

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Turkey Time

as Max Wheeler
Released: 1933-12-01

A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for...

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Crackerjack

as Jack Drake
Released: 1938-10-01

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of...

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Spring in Park Lane

as Uncle Joshua Howard
Released: 1948-03-17

Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of...

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Plunder

as Freddie Malone
Released: 1930-11-05

A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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Canaries Sometimes Sing

as Geoffrey Lymes
Released: 1930-09-10

Geoffrey and his wife Anne are trapped in a stifling marriage, which neither feels able to...

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Rookery Nook

as Clive Popkiss
Released: 1930-02-11

A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.

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A Cuckoo in the Nest

as Maj. George Bone
Released: 1933-11-11

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is...

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While I Live

as Nehemiah
Released: 1947-10-07

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability...

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A Cup of Kindness

as Fred Tutt
Released: 1934-05-07

A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.

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Lady in Danger

as Richard Dexter
Released: 1934-11-27

Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to...

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