Personal Info
Birth date
1885-05-17 (140 Years)
Day of death
1963-04-26
Gender
Male
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Also known as
-Roland Pertwee
Biography
We dont have a biography for Roland Pertwee
Filmography
The Spy in Black
6.4
Overview:
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.King Solomon's Mines
5.3
Overview:
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.Madonna of the Seven Moons
6.3
Overview:
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.The Ghoul
5.5
Overview:
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.Pink String and Sealing Wax
6.3
Overview:
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).A Yank at Oxford
6.7
Overview:
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.The Halfway House
6.4
Overview:
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?Dinner at the Ritz
5.5
Overview:
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1
Overview:
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.Caravan
5.5
Overview:
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.The Gentle Sex
7
Overview:
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.The Night of the Party
5.5
Overview:
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...Diamond City
5.2
Overview:
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".Honor of the Family
NYR
Overview:
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.Silent Dust
7.3
Overview:
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.Sleeping Car
4
Overview:
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.The Night Invader
NYR
Overview:
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?Non-Stop New York
6.3
Overview:
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.Interference
8
Overview:
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.Freedom Radio
6.3
Overview:
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.The Magic Bow
5.3
Overview:
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.Jeannie
6.5
Overview:
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.Black Jack
5.8
Overview:
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.I Like Your Nerve
5.7
Overview:
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.The Ware Case
6.3
Overview:
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's houseThe Four Just Men
6.2
Overview:
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.Illegal
5.7
Overview:
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.Return to Yesterday
6.2
Overview:
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.It's a Great Day
5.7
Overview:
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.Acting
1945They Were Sisters as Sir Hamish Nair
1944The Halfway House as Prison Governor
1943The Gentle Sex as Captain (uncredited)
1942Talk About Jacqueline as Doctor in Hospital
1942The Day Will Dawn as Capt. Waverley
1941'Pimpernel' Smith as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
1939The Four Just Men as Mr Hastings
Writing
1955It's a Great Day ... Writer
1950Black Jack ... Story
1949Diamond City ... Writer
1949Silent Dust ... Writer
1946The Magic Bow ... Writer
1946Caravan ... Screenplay
1945Pink String and Sealing Wax ... Theatre Play
1945They Were Sisters ... Writer
1945Madonna of the Seven Moons ... Screenplay
1943The Night Invader ... Writer
1942Talk About Jacqueline ... Screenplay
1941Jeannie ... Screenplay
1941'Pimpernel' Smith ... Scenario Writer
1941Freedom Radio ... Story
1940It Happened to One Man ... Theatre Play
1940Dangerous Comment ... Writer
1940Return to Yesterday ... Screenplay
1939The Spy in Black ... Scenario Writer
1939Young Man's Fancy ... Writer
1939The Four Just Men ... Writer
1938The Ware Case ... Scenario Writer
1938A Yank at Oxford ... Writer
1937Dinner at the Ritz ... Dialogue, Scenario Writer, Screenplay
1937Non-Stop New York ... Screenplay
1937King Solomon's Mines ... Dialogue, Screenplay
1935Man of the Moment ... Screenplay, Dialogue
1935Honours Easy ... Writer
1934The Night of the Party ... Theatre Play, Dialogue
1933The Ghoul ... Writer
1933Sleeping Car ... Dialogue
1932The Silver Greyhound ... Writer
1932Illegal ... Dialogue, Screenplay
1932Help Yourself ... Writer
1932Murder on the Second Floor ... Adaptation, Dialogue
1932A Voice Said Goodnight ... Story, Screenplay
1932Impromptu ... Writer
1931Honor of the Family ... Writer
1931I Like Your Nerve ... Writer
1928Interference ... Theatre Play
1928A South Sea Bubble ... Story
1923Out to Win ... Story
1920Aunt Rachel ... Writer
1919Faith ... Writer
1919The Bridal Chair ... Writer