Sydney Fairbrother Movies

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gertrude McCoy

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ernest Milton

Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Balfour

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Gish

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Fairbrother

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Pettingell

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Fairbrother

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna May Wong

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new...

Genre: Music

Cast: Florence Desmond

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Buchanan

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Foley

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Field

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Bergner

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Barraud

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Robey

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marie Doro

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sandy Powell

Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Fairbrother

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Lynn

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Risdon

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerrold Robertshaw

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.

Genre: Music

Cast: Fred Conyngham

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Robeson

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Marie Ault

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

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Cast: Betty Balfour

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Buchanan

A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna Flugrath

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Cast: Joe Nightingale

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fanny Tittell-Brune

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Owen Nares

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fanny Tittell-Brune

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Cast: Sydney Fairbrother