Jack Melford
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1899-09-05
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Also Known As:John Kenneth George Melford Smith

Three Clear Sundays (1965)
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

Feet of Clay (1960)
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith),...

Night of the Garter (1933)
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)

When Thief Meets Thief (1937)
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Compelled (1960)
An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old...

Honeymoon for Three (1935)
In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her...

When You Come Home (1948)
When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.

Lust for a Vampire (1971)
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla....

The Gentle Terror (1961)
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.

Department Store (1935)
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked...

Look Up and Laugh (1935)
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

It's in the Air (1938)
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

Hold My Hand (1938)
Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?

Spare a Copper (1940)
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

Radio Lover (1936)
A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune.

Background (1953)
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

The Ladykillers (1955)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

Crook's Tour (1940)
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

Command Performance (1937)
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

The Briggs Family (1940)
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic...

The Sport of Kings (1931)
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert...

Birds of a Feather (1936)
A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

The October Man (1947)
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Follow That Man (1961)
A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.

Warning to Wantons (1949)
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the...

They Met in the Dark (1943)
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court...

Guilty? (1956)
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers (1965)
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus...

The End of the Line (1957)
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

The Laughing Lady (1946)
A musical set during the French Revolution.

Theatre Royal (1943)
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will...

What Every Woman Wants (1962)
A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands

Gang War (1962)
During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

A Home of Your Own (1964)
A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day...

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956)
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

ITV Play of the Week (1955)
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute...

Sir Francis Drake (1961)
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden...

Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School (1952)
Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard,...

Man from Interpol (1960)
From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in waif for Special Agent Smith. "MAN FROM INTERPOL"...