Frederick Worlock
Frederick Worlock was a British-American actor. He is known for his work in various films during the 1940s and 1950s, and as the voice of Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. On stage, he made his début in 1906 in Henry V in Bristol and acted in four productions in London before moving to the United States in the 1920s, where he appeared in Broadway productions between 1923 and 1954. From 1938 to 1966, Worlock appeared as a supporting actor in films including Man Hunt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, How Green Was My Valley, The Imperfect Lady, Singapore, The Lone Wolf in London, Love from a Stranger, Ruthless, Joan of Arc, Spartacus, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (voice-over), and Spinout. He appeared in a number of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone in the 1940s. The diginfied-looking British actor often portrayed "professorial roles, some benign, some villainous". Worlock died from cerebral ischemia in 1973, at the age of 86.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.559 |
| Birthday | 1886-12-14 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Frederic Worlock, Fred Worlock, |
1960
Spartacus
7.545/2124
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...
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Spartacus
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
6.3/15
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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A Woman's Vengeance
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.424/164
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1946
Terror by Night
6.6/123
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging...
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Terror by Night
1946
Dressed to Kill
6.5/111
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purc...
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Dressed to Kill
1941
Man Hunt
7/113
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten,...
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Man Hunt
1941
Rage in Heaven
6.2/20
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Rage in Heaven
1961
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
7.18/6239
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fas...
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1945
The Woman in Green
6.403/124
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...
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The Woman in Green
1947
The Macomber Affair
6.2/12
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
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The Macomber Affair
1941
How Green Was My Valley
7.277/397
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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How Green Was My Valley
1948
Ruthless
5.7/25
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to fo...
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Ruthless
1943
Air Raid Wardens
7.083/18
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Air Raid Wardens
1946
She-Wolf of London
5.59/67
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a n...
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She-Wolf of London
1940
Murder Over New York
6/16
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Murder Over New York
1940
Strange Cargo
7/51
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1945
Pursuit to Algiers
6.8/64
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean...
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Pursuit to Algiers
1947
Love from a Stranger
5.7/8
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Law...
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Love from a Stranger
1947
Singapore
5.8/18
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...
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Singapore
1943
The Mantrap
6/1
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection...
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The Mantrap
1945
The Fatal Witness
6.2/5
A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
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The Fatal Witness
1941
Hudson's Bay
6.2/9
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the F...
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Hudson's Bay
1946
The Imperfect Lady
0/0
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Imperfect Lady
1939
Miracles for Sale
6.4/16
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Miracles for Sale
1940
Moon Over Burma
5/3
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Moon Over Burma
1943
Sahara
7.2/128
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a...
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Sahara
1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.
5.5/20
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
1962
The Notorious Landlady
6.7/51
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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The Notorious Landlady
1947
Last of the Redmen
6/4
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the G...
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Last of the Redmen
1965
Strange Bedfellows
5.9/20
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, m...
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Strange Bedfellows
1947
A Double Life
6.3/66
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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A Double Life
1939
Lady of the Tropics
6.1/8
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Lady of the Tropics
1939
Balalaika
4.2/4
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Balalaika
1943
Appointment in Berlin
6.4/4
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Appointment in Berlin
1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6.4/27
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains pow...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1943
London Blackout Murders
5/2
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Ja...
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London Blackout Murders
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1944
The Lodger
6.335/88
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Lodger
1943
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
6.9/77
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1940
Northwest Passage
6.3/52
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e...
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Northwest Passage
1940
The Sea Hawk
7.1/127
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk
1945
Scotland Yard Investigator
5.7/3
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
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Scotland Yard Investigator
1942
Eagle Squadron
0/0
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Eagle Squadron
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
0/0
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
1942
Keep 'Em Sailing
0/0
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
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Keep 'Em Sailing
1963
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
7/1
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1966
Spinout
5.5/36
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
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Spinout
1941
International Lady
6.4/7
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a...
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International Lady
1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/130
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Jane Eyre
1943
Madame Curie
7.149/37
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...
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Madame Curie
1943
Passport to Suez
5.7/6
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
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Passport to Suez
1948
Johnny Belinda
6.8/66
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Johnny Belinda
1945
Hangover Square
6.8/62
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime...
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Hangover Square
1942
Madero of Mexico
6/1
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
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Madero of Mexico
1945
Captain Kidd
6/28
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable...
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Captain Kidd
1942
Pacific Rendezvous
6/1
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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Pacific Rendezvous
1948
Joan of Arc
6.079/76
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
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Joan of Arc
1943
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
5/2
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1982
Disney's Halloween Treat
5.9/6
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and...
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Disney's Halloween Treat
1942
The Black Swan
6.4/83
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane...
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The Black Swan
1953
King Lear
8/2
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
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King Lear
1928
Two Masters
0/0
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Two Masters
1946
The Locket
6.4/38
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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