Known for Acting
Frederick Worlock was a British-American actor. He is known for his work in various films during the 1940s and 1950s, and as the voice of Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. On stage, he made his début in 1906 in Henry V in Bristol and acted in four productions in London before moving to the United States in the 1920s, where he appeared in Broadway productions between 1923 and 1954. From 1938 to 1966, Worlock appeared as a supporting actor in films including Man Hunt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, How Green Was My Valley, The Imperfect Lady, Singapore, The Lone Wolf in London, Love from a Stranger, Ruthless, Joan of Arc, Spartacus, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (voice-over), and Spinout. He appeared in a number of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone in the 1940s. The diginfied-looking British actor often portrayed "professorial roles, some benign, some villainous". Worlock died from cerebral ischemia in 1973, at the age of 86.
Born
December 14, 1886
Died
August 1, 1973 (age 86)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Filmography
68 films, 5 shows


Disney's Halloween Treat
1982 · 47m
country: United States
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."


Elizabeth the Queen
1968 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.


Spinout
1966 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.


Strange Bedfellows
1965 · 1h 38m
country: United States
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.


The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1963 · 1h 16m
country: Unknown
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.


The Notorious Landlady
1962 · 2h 3m
country: United States
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.


One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961 · 1h 19m
country: United States
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.


Spartacus
1960 · 3h 17m
country: United States
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
King Richard II
King Richard II
1954
country: United States
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king. Shown as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954


King Lear
1953 · 1h 22m
country: United States
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.


A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.


Joan of Arc
1948 · 2h 25m
country: United States
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.


Johnny Belinda
1948 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.


Ruthless
1948 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.


A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.


A Double Life
1947 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.


Love from a Stranger
1947 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.


Forever Amber
1947 · 2h 18m
country: United States
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.


Singapore
1947 · 1h 19m
country: United States
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.


Last of the Redmen
1947 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro, her sister Cora, and her young brother Davy from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap.


The Macomber Affair
1947 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".


The Locket
1946 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.


The Imperfect Lady
1946 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.


Dressed to Kill
1946 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.


She-Wolf of London
1946 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.


Terror by Night
1946 · 1h
country: United States
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.


Captain Kidd
1945 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.


Pursuit to Algiers
1945 · 1h 5m
country: United States
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.


Scotland Yard Investigator
1945 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.


The Fatal Witness
1945 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.


The Woman in Green
1945 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.


Hangover Square
1945 · 1h 18m
country: United States
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.


The Lodger
1944 · 1h 24m
country: United States
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.


Jane Eyre
1943 · 1h 37m
country: United States
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?


Madame Curie
1943 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.


Sahara
1943 · 1h 37m
country: United States
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.


Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1943 · 1h 8m
country: United States
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.


Passport to Suez
1943 · 1h 12m
country: United States
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.


Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943 · 4h 3m
country: United States
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.


Appointment in Berlin
1943 · 1h 17m
country: United States
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.


The Mantrap
1943 · 57m
country: United States
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.


Air Raid Wardens
1943 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.


London Blackout Murders
1943 · 59m
country: United States
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.


The Black Swan
1942 · 1h 27m
country: United States
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.


Keep 'Em Sailing
1942 · 20m
country: United States
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.


Madero of Mexico
1942 · 11m
country: United States
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.


Eagle Squadron
1942 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.


Pacific Rendezvous
1942 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.


Captains of the Clouds
1942 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.


How Green Was My Valley
1941 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.


International Lady
1941 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.


A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.


Man Hunt
1941 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.


Rage in Heaven
1941 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.


Hudson's Bay
1940 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.


Murder Over New York
1940 · 1h 5m
country: United States
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.


South of Suez
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.


He Stayed for Breakfast
1940 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.


The Sea Hawk
1940 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.


Moon Over Burma
1940 · 1h 16m
country: United States
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.


Strange Cargo
1940 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.


Northwest Passage
1940 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.


The Earl of Chicago
1940 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.


Balalaika
1939 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.


Lady of the Tropics
1939 · 1h 32m
country: United States
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness.


Miracles for Sale
1939 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
Two Masters
Two Masters
1928 · 20m
country: United States
Lenora, caught in Spanish-Dutch conflict, becomes a spy, initially against the Dutch for her Spanish lover Ramón, but after his death, switches allegiance, helps the Dutch capture a fortress, and is reunited with her beloved Mark, a Dutch commander, realizing the justness of their cause and finding love.