Wally Patch

Born: 1888-09-26


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A Matter of Life and Death

as Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-15

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

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In Which We Serve

as Uncle Fred
Released: 1942-09-17

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during...

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Night Train to Munich

as Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-31

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague,...

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Pygmalion

as First Bystander
Released: 1939-03-03

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza...

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The Skin Game

as Van Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1931-02-26

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

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Bank Holiday

as Arthur
Released: 1938-01-27

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to...

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

as Butcher in Kitchen (uncredited)
Released: 1933-08-17

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With...

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The Millionairess

as Whelk Seller
Released: 1960-10-18

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman....

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I'm All Right Jack

as Workman
Released: 1959-08-18

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business....

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Poor Cow

as Pub Customer
Released: 1967-12-05

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a...

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Band Waggon

as Commisssionaire
Released: 1940-03-23

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless...

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Helter Skelter

as BBC Commissionaire
Released: 1949-01-07

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

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Tiger Bay

as Wally
Released: 1934-09-01

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger...

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Night Ride

as Alf Higgins
Released: 1937-06-28

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company....

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Crime Unlimited

as Andrew Purvis
Released: 1935-08-01

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

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Poison Pen

as Mr. Albert Suggs
Released: 1939-07-03

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone...

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Shooting Stars

as Property Man
Released: 1928-02-06

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he...

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Cottage to Let

as Evans
Released: 1941-09-06

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...

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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

as Police Officer 'Tiny' White
Released: 1950-01-31

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged...

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as Supt. Smithnells
Released: 1936-07-23

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers...

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Serena

as Barman
Released: 1962-06-01

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is...

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High Treason

as Peace League Commissionaire
Released: 1929-03-25

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic...

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Sparrows Can't Sing

as Watchman
Released: 1963-03-26

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife...

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Up the Junction

as Totter
Released: 1965-11-03

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and...

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The Comedy Man

as Bar Manager
Released: 1964-09-03

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a...

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Cathy Come Home

as Grandad
Released: 1966-11-16

A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden...

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Get Cracking

as Sgt. Joe Preston
Released: 1943-05-17

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah...

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Unpublished Story

as Taxi Driver at Victoria Station
Released: 1942-08-10

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

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Pygmalion

as Man in the Cap
Released: 1948-02-08

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

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Return to Yesterday

as Night Watchman
Released: 1940-03-09

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small...

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Three Clear Sundays

as Prisoner
Released: 1965-04-07

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the...

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The Naked Truth

as Paunchy Old Man
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 High Command

as Crawford
Released: 1937-08-23

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

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Wanted for Murder

as Merry-Go-Round Barker
Released: 1946-06-17

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to...

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The Challenge

as Ticket Collector
Released: 1960-05-17

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a...

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Good-Time Girl

as Bookie (uncredited)
Released: 1948-04-28

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home...

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Nothing Barred

as Newspaperman
Released: 1961-10-10

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor...

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Hammer the Toff

as Bert Ebbutt
Released: 1952-05-01

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

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Josephine and Men

as Landlord
Released: 1955-11-09

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to...

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Farewell Again

as Sgt. Maj. Billings
Released: 1937-01-05

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people...

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Alf's Button Afloat

as Sergt. Hawkins
Released: 1938-06-30

Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp...

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Inspector Hornleigh

as Sam Holt
Released: 1939-03-07

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

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Dandy Dick

as Police Constable Topping
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 Seventh Survivor

as Bob Sutton
Released: 1942-01-05

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a...

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Owd Bob

as Unlucky Joe
Released: 1938-01-26

Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey...

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Doctor Syn

as Collyer's Bo'sun
Released: 1937-08-25

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this...

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Men Are Not Gods

as Gallery Attendant
Released: 1936-11-26

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the...

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Dusty Ermine

as Thug
Released: 1936-12-01

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by...

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The Guinea Pig

as Uncle Percy
Released: 1948-10-26

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two...

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They Came by Night

as Bugsie
Released: 1940-03-07

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

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The Sport of Kings

as Panama Pete
Released: 1931-02-23

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To...

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The Fire Raisers

as Price the Trainer
Released: 1934-01-22

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with...

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Operation Cupid

as uncredited
Released: 1960-04-01

A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a...

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Green Fingers

as Dawson
Released: 1947-06-02

A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school,...

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Gasbags

as Sgt Major
Released: 1941-02-01

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton &...

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Will Any Gentleman...?

as Bookmaker
Released: 1953-08-25

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves...

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

as The Buller
Released: 1940-08-31

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring...

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Quiet Wedding

as Third Magistrate
Released: 1941-04-19

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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Shadows

as Cripps
Released: 1931-03-31

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang...

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Castle Sinister

as Jorkins
Released: 1932-03-30

A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.

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I Didn't Do It

as Det Sgt. Carp
Released: 1945-08-06

Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of...

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The Flying Squad

as Bargee
Released: 1940-10-12

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling...

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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

as Foreman
Released: 1947-10-30

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

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The Ware Case

as Taxi Driver
Released: 1938-12-02

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

as George
Released: 1934-12-14

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf...

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The Guns of Loos

as Sergeant
Released: 1928-02-28

Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the...

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Carry On!

as Andrews
Released: 1927-12-02

'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Salute the Toff

as Bert Ebbutt
Released: 1952-12-02

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

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Prison Breaker

as Villars
Released: 1936-02-01

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and...

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Appointment with Crime

as Joe Fisher
Released: 1946-05-13

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and...

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Sorrell and Son

as Buck
Released: 1934-03-05

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts...

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Once in a New Moon

as Syd Parrott
Released: 1935-01-01

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth,...

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The Great Gay Road

as Joe
Released: 1931-10-21

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes...

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Let the People Sing

as Sam
Released: 1942-08-11

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a...

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

as Sergeant Major
Released: 1941-05-17

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector...

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I See Ice

as Train Conductor
Released: 1938-02-10

George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who...

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Passing Shadows

as Sergeant
Released: 1934-10-22

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is...

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Gert and Daisy's Weekend

as Charlie Peters
Released: 1942-02-16

Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home...

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I Thank You

as Bill The Fireman
Released: 1941-10-20

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a...

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A Jolly Bad Fellow

as Tom Pike
Released: 1964-03-15

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a...

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Much Too Shy

as Police Constable
Released: 1942-10-12

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders...

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Old Mother Riley in Business

as uncredited
Released: 1941-04-11

Old Mother Riley starts a new business.

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The Butler's Dilemma

as Tom
Released: 1943-11-29

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a...

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Danger by My Side

as Factory Gatekeeper
Released: 1962-09-01

A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.

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Calling Paul Temple

as Spider Williams
Released: 1948-04-29

Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered...

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Date With a Dream

as Uncle
Released: 1948-11-01

Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are...

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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday

as Police Sergeant
Released: 1939-12-01

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to...

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Never Trouble Trouble

as Bill Hainton
Released: 1931-06-05

A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.

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Bob's Your Uncle

as Sgt. Brownfoot
Released: 1942-03-02

Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In...

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George in Civvy Street

as Sprout
Released: 1946-07-07

George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current...

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Thread o' Scarlet

as Ford
Released: 1930-11-22

'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Coming Out Party

as Grandad
Released: 1965-12-22

When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.

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Sabotage at Sea

as Tom (the steward)
Released: 1942-09-07

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of...

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Those Were the Days

as Inspector Briggs
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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Off the Dole

as Revels In His Part
Released: 1935-06-01

Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective...

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Laugh It Off

as Sergeant
Released: 1940-03-09

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for...

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Kissing Cup's Race

as Bookie
Released: 1930-11-01

A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .

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Britannia of Billingsgate

as Harry
Released: 1933-01-01

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition:...

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The Great Game

as Joe Miller
Released: 1930-08-27

Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life...

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The Adventure of the Torture Cage

as Private Bill Riggers
Released: 1928-03-11

Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers...

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River Patrol

as The Guy
Released: 1948-03-01

The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.

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The Scotland Yard Mystery

as Detective Sergeant George
Released: 1934-01-03

A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a...

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Not So Dusty

as uncredited
Released: 1956-02-16

Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts...

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Death by Design

as Sergeant Clinton
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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The Street Singer

as Policeman
Released: 1937-03-01

Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer...

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