Cast: Frederick Leister

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frederick Leister. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Goodbye Mr. Chips

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn

Plot An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Footsteps in the Fog

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie

Plot To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband...

7.0

783 votes

7.0

783 votes

The Captive Heart

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns

Plot In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell....

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes

So Well Remembered

1947 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Mills · Martha Scott · Patricia Roc · Trevor Howard

Plot On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper...

6.5

37 votes

6.5

37 votes

The End of the Affair

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Deborah Kerr · Van Johnson · John Mills · Michael Goodliffe

Plot In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love...

6.3

256 votes

6.3

256 votes

The Gentle Sex

1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard · Maurice Elvey

Cast Joan Gates · Jean Gillie · Joan Greenwood · Joyce Howard

Plot This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.

5.9

23 votes

5.9

23 votes

Dangerous Exile

1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Louis Jourdan · Belinda Lee · Keith Michell · Richard O'Sullivan

Plot It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.

5.1

43 votes

5.1

43 votes

For Them That Trespass

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Stephen Murray · Richard Todd · Patricia Plunkett · Rosalyn Boulter

Plot "Cristy" Drew, an aspiring young writer, trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with "Frankie" Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds "Frankie"...

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Sons of the Sea

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power

Plot After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach...

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Paper Orchid

1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Hugh Williams · Hy Hazell · Sid James · Garry Marsh

Plot A man found dead inside a gossip columnist's apartment leads to competition between two rival newspapers.

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Down River

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

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O.H.M.S.

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Wallace Ford · John Mills · Anna Lee · Grace Bradley

Plot Two soldier friends vie for the affections of the sergeant-major's daughter, against a background of military pomp and adventure.

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Mrs. Fitzherbert

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Peter Graves · Joyce Howard · Leslie Banks · Margaretta Scott

Plot 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...

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On the Night of the Fire

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Ralph Richardson · Diana Wynyard · Romney Brent · Mary Clare

Plot A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.

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The 20 Questions Murder Mystery

1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Robert Beatty · Rona Anderson · Clifford Evans · Stewart MacPherson

Plot BBC Radio's 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass.

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We'll Meet Again

1943 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philip Brandon

Cast Vera Lynn · Geraldo · Ronald Ward · Patricia Roc

Plot A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally...

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Before I Wake

1955 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Mona Freeman · Jean Kent · Maxwell Reed · Hugh Miller

Plot A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to...

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye

1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Patricia Medina · Jimmy Hanley · Marie Lohr · Frederick Leister

Plot Joan's (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley).

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The Hundred Pound Window

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Anne Crawford · David Farrar · Frederick Leister · Mary Clare

Plot An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and...

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The Rossiter Case

1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Francis Searle

Cast Helen Shingler · Clement McCallin · Sheila Burrell · Frederick Leister

Plot A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns...

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Not rated