Cast: Wilfrid Lawson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Wilfrid Lawson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 29
War and Peace
1956 · Movie · 208 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman
Synopsis Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of...
7.3
10K votes
7.3
10K votes
Pygmalion
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith · Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Wendy Hiller · Wilfrid Lawson · Marie Lohr
Synopsis The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that...
7.0
844 votes
7.0
844 votes
Hell Drivers
1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Stanley Baker · Herbert Lom · Peggy Cummins · Patrick McGoohan
Synopsis Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too less runs in a day?...
6.9
339 votes
6.9
339 votes
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond
Synopsis Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
The Prisoner
1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Glenville
Cast Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · Raymond Huntley · Wilfrid Lawson
Synopsis The Prisoner is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions. Alec Guinness, his head shaved, plays an unnamed...
6.5
213 votes
6.5
213 votes
Bank Holiday
1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Margaret Lockwood · John Lodge · Hugh Williams · René Ray
Synopsis Britons take off for a summer holiday filled with romantic intrigue and dreams of better lives.
6.3
75 votes
6.3
75 votes
The Wrong Box
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bryan Forbes
Cast John Mills · Michael Caine · Ralph Richardson · Peter Cook
Synopsis A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until...
5.8
220 votes
5.8
220 votes
Allegheny Uprising
1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · George Sanders · Robert Barrat
Synopsis In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit. Jim Smith won't sit still for that. He organizes troopers to dress up as Indians and...
5.5
181 votes
5.5
181 votes
The Night Has Eyes
1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Arliss
Cast James Mason · Wilfrid Lawson · Mary Clare · Joyce Howard
Synopsis Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shellshocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris...
5.4
53 votes
5.4
53 votes
The Viking Queen
1967 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Don Murray · Carita · Donald Houston · Andrew Keir
4.6
63 votes
4.6
63 votes
Tread Softly Stranger
1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Diana Dors · George Baker · Terence Morgan · Patrick Allen
Synopsis An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.
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Make Me an Offer
1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cyril Frankel
Cast Peter Finch · Adrienne Corri · Rosalie Crutchley · Finlay Currie
Synopsis Charlie as a boy on a trip to the local museum, falls in love with a green portland vase (wedgewood), and decides that this is his quest in life to find it. So as a grown up he is still...
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Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · Movie · 197 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Ann Stephens · Gloria Sydney · Phyllis Calvert · James Mason
Synopsis Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their...
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Jeannie
1941 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Barbara Mullen · Wilfrid Lawson · Gus McNaughton · Phyllis Stanley
Synopsis Jeannie McLean (Mullen) is a Scottish girl who finds that she has received an inheritance. The film follows her adventures of finding her family castle and being romanced by different men.
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Tower of Terror
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lawrence Huntington
Cast Wilfrid Lawson · Michael Rennie · Movita · Morland Graham
Synopsis A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
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Stolen Life
1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Czinner
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Michael Redgrave · Wilfrid Lawson · Mabel Terry-Lewis
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Thursday's Child
1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Rodney Ackland
Cast Sally Ann Howes · Wilfrid Lawson · Kathleen O'Regan · Stewart Granger
Synopsis Family tensions arise when a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.
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The Phantom Strikes (The Gaunt Stranger)
1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Sonnie Hale · Wilfrid Lawson · Louise Henry · Alexander Knox
Synopsis Crooked lawyer Maurice Meister's (Lawson) life is threatened by his ex-partner who is a master of disguise known as the Ringer. The police give him protection and place in his house the only man who can identify the Ringer -...
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The Farmer's Wife
1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Arliss · Norman Lee
Cast Basil Sydney · Wilfrid Lawson · Nora Swinburne · Patricia Roc
Synopsis After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
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White Hunter
1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Warner Baxter · June Lang · Gail Patrick · Alison Skipworth
Synopsis Safari guide (Baxter) is hired by the man (Lawson) who was responsible for his father's death.
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