Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

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


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...

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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...

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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

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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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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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.

Not rated

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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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Not rated