Early career

Selected filmography

• Happy
  Happy (1933 film)
  Happy is a 1933 British musical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff and Will Fyffe. In Paris, a band leader pretends to be a millionaire.-Cast:* Stanley Lupino ... Frank Brown* Laddie Cliff ... George...
  
  (1933)
• Keep It Quiet
  Keep It Quiet
  Keep it Quiet is a 1933 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Bertha Belmore, Frank Pettingell, Cyril Raymond and Davy Burnaby. Joe Puddlefoot becomes involved with criminals trying to steal valuable jade pieces belonging to the distinguished Sir Charles Goode....
  
  (1933)
• Over the Garden Wall (1934)
• Blossom Time
  Blossom Time (film)
  Blossom Time is a 1934 British musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter and Carl Esmond. It was based on the opera Blossom Time by Heinrich Berte. In nineteenth century Vienna, a composer assists a girl who he is secretly in love with.-Cast:* Richard...
  
  (1934)
• Are You a Mason? (1934)
• Royal Cavalcade
  Royal Cavalcade
  Royal Cavalcade is a 1935 British, black-and-white, drama film directed by six separate directors: Thomas Bentley , Herbert Brenon, Norman Lee, Walter Summers, Will Kellino and Marcel Varnel. The film features Marie Lohr, Hermione Baddeley, Owen Nares, Robert Hale, Austin Trevor, James Carew,...
  
  (1935)
• So You Won't Talk
  So You Won't Talk (1935 film)
  So You Won't Talk is a 1935 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Monty Banks, Vera Pearce and Bertha Belmore. The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write...
  
  (1935)
• In the Soup
  In the Soup (1936 film)
  In the Soup is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Ralph Lynn, Judy Gunn, Morton Selten and Nelson Keys. It was based on a play by Ralph Lumley...
  
  (1936)
• Broken Blossoms
  Broken Blossoms (1936 film)
  Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. It was based on the novel The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke. It was made at Twickenham Studios in West London. The story had previously been...
  
  (1936)
• Over She Goes
  Over She Goes
  Over She Goes is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Stanley Lupino, Claire Luce, Gina Malo and Max Baer. It was based on a play by Lupino...
  
  (1938)
• Convict 99
  Convict 99
  Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring British comedian Will Hay and Googie Withers.-Synopsis:Incompetent Dr Benjamin Twist is dismissed from his job as headmaster at St. Michaels' School Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel...
  
  (1938)
• Let's Make a Night of It
  Let's Make a Night of It
  Let's Make a Night of It is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Charles Rogers, June Clyde and Claire Luce. A husband and his wife acquire rival nightclubs at the same time...
  
  (1938)
• She Couldn't Say No
  She Couldn't Say No (1939 film)
  She Couldn't Say No is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney and Googie Withers. It was based on a play Funny Face by Paul Girard Smith and Fred Thompson...
  
  (1939)
• Yes, Madam?
  Yes, Madam?
  Yes, Madam? is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Norman Lee and starring Bobby Howes, Diana Churchill and Wylie Watson. Two cousins have to spend a spell in service to qualify for an inheritance, but they find themselves in the same house as their arch-enemy. It was adapted from a...
  
  (1939)
• Discoveries
  Discoveries (film)
  Discoveries is a 1939 British, black-and-white, musical, directed by Redd Davis and starring Ronald Shiner as Jim Pike. It was produced by the British Grand National Film Productions, which is not to be confused with the later, American Grand National Films Inc.-Synopsis:A pre-1900s burlesque,...
  
  (1939)
• The Midas Touch
  The Midas Touch
  The Midas Touch is a 1940 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly, Frank Cellier and Bertha Belmore.-Cast:* Barry K...
  
  (1940)