Colin Tapley
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Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.716 |
| Birthday | 1907-05-07 |
| Place of Birth | Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand |
| Also Known As |
1935
The Black Room
6.42/56
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the ol...
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The Black Room
1955
The Dam Busters
6.8/132
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S...
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The Dam Busters
1951
Cloudburst
6.3/14
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over b...
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Cloudburst
1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
6.6/36
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohamm...
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
5.9/17
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a...
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1952
Wings of Danger
5.3/5
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his...
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Wings of Danger
1938
If I Were King
6.8/9
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
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If I Were King
1952
Wide Boy
6.6/4
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
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Wide Boy
1937
The Crime Nobody Saw
5/2
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
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The Crime Nobody Saw
1936
Too Many Parents
5/2
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart wri...
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Too Many Parents
1936
The Preview Murder Mystery
6/4
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist wor...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
1937
Night of Mystery
0/0
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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Night of Mystery
1936
The Return of Sophie Lang
6/1
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a jo...
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The Return of Sophie Lang
1937
Souls at Sea
5.7/6
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Souls at Sea
1939
The Light That Failed
6/5
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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The Light That Failed
1962
Emergency
5.5/2
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One...
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Emergency
1940
Arizona
6.1/25
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But P...
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Arizona
1936
Thank You, Jeeves!
6/7
Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
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Thank You, Jeeves!
1938
Booloo
6.5/2
White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's...
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Booloo
1953
3 Steps to the Gallows
6.3/7
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
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3 Steps to the Gallows
1940
North West Mounted Police
6.264/36
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor...
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North West Mounted Police
1937
King of Gamblers
7/1
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...
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King of Gamblers
1935
The Last Outpost
6/6
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal le...
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The Last Outpost
1938
Storm Over Bengal
5/3
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...
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Storm Over Bengal
1936
Early to Bed
7/1
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...
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Early to Bed
1934
Double Door
6.8/11
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Ave...
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Double Door
1949
Samson and Delilah
6.524/206
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regr...
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Samson and Delilah
1937
Maid of Salem
5.9/7
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...
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Maid of Salem
1953
Noose for a Lady
5.7/6
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering...
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Noose for a Lady
1962
Strongroom
6.625/12
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan t...
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Strongroom
1953
The Steel Key
5.5/3
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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The Steel Key
1958
The Safecracker
5.8/6
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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The Safecracker
1952
Angels One Five
6/29
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
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Angels One Five
1957
Stranger in Town
6.5/6
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
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Stranger in Town
1955
Barbados Quest
4.5/5
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willin...
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Barbados Quest
1935
Becky Sharp
5.529/17
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanit...
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Becky Sharp
1960
Compelled
5/1
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 "friends"...
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Compelled
1936
My Marriage
5/2
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his...
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My Marriage
1960
The Sundowners
6.665/48
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to set...
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The Sundowners
1935
Peter Ibbetson
7/46
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter i...
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Peter Ibbetson
1954
The Diamond Wizard
5.889/9
While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keef...
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The Diamond Wizard
1953
Strange Stories
0/0
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on telev...
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Strange Stories
1961
So Evil, So Young
4/2
A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
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So Evil, So Young
1959
Man Accused
0/0
Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insuran...
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Man Accused
1934
Murder at the Vanities
5.8/9
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...
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