Known for Acting
John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was an English stage, film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as chief inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, and as portraying the second "Mr. French" on TV's Family Affair.
Born
April 15, 1903
Died
May 5, 1983 (age 80)
Birthplace
Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Filmography
35 films, 23 shows


Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · 14m
country: United States
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the films of Paramount studio which includes Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday and many others during her distinguished career that lasted more than six decades and earned her eight Academy Awards wins in between more than 30 nominations.


Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.


No Deposit, No Return
1976 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.


Lost in the Stars
1974 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.


The Hound of the Baskervilles
1972 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.


A Flea in Her Ear
1968 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.


The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968 · 1h 50m
country: United States
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...


Double Trouble
1967 · 1h 31m
country: United States
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.


The Last of the Secret Agents?
1966 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.


Harlow
1965 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platinum Blonde."


Dear Brigitte
1965 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.


Pygmalion
1963 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?


Five Fingers : Dossier
1961 · 1h
country: United States
From the TV series Five Fingers. Released theatrically in the UK in August 1961 as supporting film to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.


24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.


Midnight Lace
1960 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.


Visit to a Small Planet
1960 · 1h 25m
country: United States
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.


The Young Philadelphians
1959 · 2h 16m
country: United States
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.


Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · 1h 56m
country: United States
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
The Clouded Image
The Clouded Image
1957 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
A young stranger, Brat Farrar, shows up claiming to be the twin brother of a young Englishman, Peter Ashby, who is set to inherit a huge fortune. Farrar claim to have a right to half of the estate.


Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · 1h 33m
country: United States
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.


Island in the Sun
1957 · 1h 59m
country: United States
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.


The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.


D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 · 1h 46m
country: United States
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.


To Catch a Thief
1955 · 1h 46m
country: United States
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.


Sabrina
1954 · 1h 54m
country: United States
After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.


The Student Prince
1954 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.


Dial M for Murder
1954 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.


Thunder in the East
1952 · 1h 37m
country: United States
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.


The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.


Kind Lady
1951 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.


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.


The Goose Steps Out
1942 · 1h 19m
country: United Kingdom
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.


The Foreman Went to France
1942 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.


The Next of Kin
1942 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.


The Big Blockade
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United Kingdom
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.