Known for Acting
Ralph Truman (7 May 1900 – 15 October 1977) was a British actor.
Born
May 7, 1900
Died
October 15, 1977 (age 77)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Filmography
64 films, 4 shows


Lady Caroline Lamb
1972 · 2h 3m
country: United Kingdom
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.


Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · 3h 9m
country: United Kingdom
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.


El Cid
1961 · 3h 7m
country: Italy
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.


Exodus
1960 · 3h 28m
country: United States
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.


Under Ten Flags
1960 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.


Ben-Hur
1959 · 3h 32m
country: United States
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.


Web of Evidence
1959 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.


The Spaniard's Curse
1958 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.


The Good Companions
1957 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.


Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.


The Long Arm
1956 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.


Wicked as They Come
1956 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.


The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · 2h 1m
country: United States
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.


Tons of Trouble
1956 · 1h 17m
country: Unknown
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."


The Black Tent
1956 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.


The Ship That Died of Shame
1955 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.


The Night My Number Came Up
1955 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.


Beau Brummell
1954 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.


The Master of Ballantrae
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.


Malta Story
1953 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.


The Golden Coach
1952 · 1h 45m
country: France
A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.


Quo Vadis
1951 · 2h 54m
country: United States
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.


Treasure Island
1950 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
The Reluctant Widow
The Reluctant Widow
1950 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.


Christopher Columbus
1949 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.


The Interrupted Journey
1949 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.


Eureka Stockade
1949 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.


Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.


Oliver Twist
1948 · 2h 1m
country: United Kingdom
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.


Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.


The Adventures of Dusty Bates
1947 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.


The Man Within
1947 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.


The Laughing Lady
1946 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Papworth Village Settlement
Papworth Village Settlement
1946 · 19m
country: United Kingdom
Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papworth.


Beware of Pity
1946 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.


Lisbon Story
1946 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Read All About It
Read All About It
1945 · 29m
country: United Kingdom
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.


Henry V
1944 · 2h 17m
country: United Kingdom
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.


The Butler's Dilemma
1943 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...


Sabotage at Sea
1942 · 1h 1m
country: Unknown
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.


The Seventh Survivor
1942 · 1h 17m
country: Unknown
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.


The Saint in London
1939 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.


Black Eyes
1939 · 1h 7m
country: United Kingdom
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...


The Outsider
1939 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.


Life of St. Paul
1938 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.


The Challenge
1938 · 1h 16m
country: United Kingdom
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.


South Riding
1938 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.


The Drum
1938 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.


Dinner at the Ritz
1937 · 1h 17m
country: United Kingdom
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Change for a Sovereign
Change for a Sovereign
1937
country: United Kingdom
A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne.


Secret Lives
1937 · 1h 19m
country: United Kingdom
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.


Fire Over England
1937 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen, bringing gold from the New World.


Dusty Ermine
1936 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}


The Crimson Circle
1936 · 1h 16m
country: United Kingdom
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
The Marriage of Corbal
The Marriage of Corbal
1936 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.


Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Captain Bill
Captain Bill
1935 · 1h 21m
country: United Kingdom
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.


The Silent Passenger
1935 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
The Case of Gabriel Perry
The Case of Gabriel Perry
1935 · 1h 17m
country: United Kingdom
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.


Three Witnesses
1935 · 1h 8m
country: United Kingdom
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
The Perfect Flaw
The Perfect Flaw
1934 · 50m
country: United Kingdom
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.


The Shadow
1933 · 1h 3m
country: United Kingdom
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Partners Please
Partners Please
1932 · 34m
country: United Kingdom
Aristocrat Lord Dawlish is told by his girlfriend's father that he must find a job if he wishes to continue seeing her. He finds employment as a dancing partner at a dance club and prospers in his new role, despite facing a jealous rival.


The Bells
1931 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.