Cast: John Gregson

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


The Lavender Hill Mob

1951 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sid James · Alfie Bass

Synopsis Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Three Cases of Murder

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Eady · George More O'Ferrall · Wendy Toye

Cast Orson Welles · Alan Badel · John Gregson · Elizabeth Sellars

Synopsis Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is...

6.6

223 votes

6.6

223 votes

The Titfield Thunderbolt

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Stanley Holloway · George Relph · Naunton Wayne · John Gregson

Synopsis Comedy of railfans who take over their village's passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it.

6.6

422 votes

6.6

422 votes

Scott of the Antarctic

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast John Mills · Diana Churchill · Harold Warrender · Anne Firth

Synopsis Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she's "not the least jealous" that he's going...

6.5

141 votes

6.5

141 votes

Genevieve

1953 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Dinah Sheridan · John Gregson · Kay Kendall · Kenneth More

Synopsis It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Along the way, some old jealousies are kindled...

6.4

222 votes

6.4

222 votes

Sea of Sand

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Richard Attenborough · John Gregson · Michael Craig · Vincent Ball

Synopsis A small British army team is sent to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Whilst they are there they spot a large number of tanks and realise...

6.4

32 votes

6.4

32 votes

Tomorrow at Ten

1963 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast John Gregson · Robert Shaw · Alec Clunes · Alan Wheatley

Synopsis It's a race against time for the police when they have to find a kidnapped boy imprisoned with a time bomb, after his abductor dies without revealing the child's whereabouts.

6.3

54 votes

6.3

54 votes

The Frightened City

1961 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Lemont

Cast Herbert Lom · John Gregson · Sean Connery · Alfred Marks

Synopsis A 1961 British film about extortion rackets and gang warfare in the West End of London. It stars Sean Connery, who plays a burglar called Paddy Damion. He is lured into a protection racket by oily mobster Harry Foulcher (Alfred...

6.1

33 votes

6.1

33 votes

Treasure Island

1950 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Bobby Driscoll · Robert Newton · Basil Sydney · Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis 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...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

The Battle of the River Plate

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Peter Finch · John Gregson · Anthony Quayle · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface...

6.0

659 votes

6.0

659 votes

Above Us the Waves

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using...

5.7

116 votes

5.7

116 votes

Fright

1971 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Susan George · Honor Blackman · Ian Bannen · John Gregson

Synopsis Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror...

4.9

143 votes

4.9

143 votes

Faces in the Dark

1960 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Eady

Cast John Gregson · Mai Zetterling · John Ireland · Michel Dennison

Synopsis Businessman and inventor Richard Hammond is determined to develop and market the perfect light-bulb. In a freak lab accident he is blinded and suffers a partial breakdown. His wife, partner and brother take him to his country house, but then...

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The Captain's Table

1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Lee

Cast John Gregson · Peggy Cummins · Donald Sinden · Nadia Gray

Synopsis A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the...

Not rated

Not rated

The Brave Don't Cry

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philip Leacock

Cast John Gregson · Meg Buchanan · John Rae · Fulton Mackay

Synopsis A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony.

Not rated

Not rated

Shirley's World (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Melville Shavelson · Frank Tarloff · Ray Austin · Ralph Levy

Cast Shirley MacLaine · John Gregson · Rodney Bewes · Stuart Damon

Synopsis Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis Croft, her London based editor.

Not rated

Not rated

Cairo Road

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Eric Portman · Laurence Harvey · Maria Mauban · Camelia

Synopsis The never-ending struggle of an Egyptian Narcotics Bureau unit. This time around,the murder of a rich Arab named Bashiri leads colonel Yussef Bey and his right-hand man Lieutenant Mourad to a berthed ship in the harbor of Port Saïd. An...

Not rated

Not rated

SOS Pacific

1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Richard Attenborough · Pier Angeli · John Gregson · Eva Bartok

Synopsis A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On...

Not rated

Not rated

Angels One Five

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George More O'Ferrall

Cast Jack Hawkins · Michel Dennison · Dulcie Gray · John Gregson

Synopsis This is the story of "The Few" and how they managed to fight off the might of the Luftwaffe despite overwhelming German air power.

Not rated

Not rated

Hand in Hand

1961 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philip Leacock

Cast Kathleen Byron · Finlay Currie · Arnold Diamond · Eric Francis

Synopsis A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.

Not rated

Not rated