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Tom Walls
Actor

Tom Walls

17 Feb 1883Born
27 Nov 1949Died
66Age at death
37Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia

Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.

Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson.

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They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time.

In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.

Known for

Filmography

  1. 1949The Interrupted JourneyFilm: Mr. Clayton
  2. 1949Maytime in MayfairFilm: Inspector
  3. 1948Spring in Park LaneFilm: Uncle Joshua Howard
  4. 1947While I LiveFilm: Nehemiah
  5. 1947The Master of BankdamFilm: Simeon Crowther Sr.
  6. 1946This Man Is MineFilm: Philip Ferguson
  7. 1945Johnny FrenchmanFilm: Net Pomeroy
  8. 1944Love StoryFilm: Tom Tanner
  9. 1944The Halfway HouseFilm: Capt. Meadows
  10. 1943They Met in the DarkFilm: Christopher Child
  11. 1943UndercoverFilm: Kossan Petrovitch
  12. 1938Old IronFilm: Sir Henry Woodstock, Director
  13. 1938CrackerjackFilm: Jack Drake
  14. 1938Second Best BedFilm: Victor Garnett, Director
  15. 1938Strange BoardersFilm: Tommy Blythe
  16. 1937For ValourFilm: Doubleday, Director
  17. 1936Dishonour BrightFilm: Stephen Champion, Director
  18. 1936Pot LuckFilm: Director
  19. 1935Foreign AffairesFilm: Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore, Director
  20. 1935Stormy WeatherFilm: Sir Duncan Craggs, Director
  21. 1935Me and MarlboroughFilm: John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
  22. 1935Fighting StockFilm: Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley, Director
  23. 1934Dirty WorkFilm: Director
  24. 1934Lady in DangerFilm: Richard Dexter, Director
  25. 1934A Cup of KindnessFilm: Fred Tutt, Director
  26. 1933Turkey TimeFilm: Max Wheeler, Director
  27. 1933A Cuckoo in the NestFilm: Maj. George Bone, Director
  28. 1933Leave It to SmithFilm: Smith, Director
  29. 1933The Blarney StoneFilm: Tim Fitzgerald, Director
  30. 1932TharkFilm: Sir Hector Benbow, Director
  31. 1932Leap YearFilm: Sir Peter Trallion, Director
  32. 1932A Night Like ThisFilm: Michael Mahoney, Director, Screenplay
  33. 1930Tons of MoneyFilm: Director
  34. 1930PlunderFilm: Freddie Malone, Director
  35. 1930Canaries Sometimes SingFilm: Geoffrey Lymes, Director
  36. 1930On ApprovalFilm: Duke of Bristol, Director
  37. 1930Rookery NookFilm: Clive Popkiss, Director

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