- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 17, 1883
- Place of Birth
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- Died
- November 27, 1949
Tom Walls
From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British ac…
Filmography
movieThe Interrupted Journey
1949 · Mr. Clayton
movieMaytime in Mayfair
1949 · Inspector
movieSpring in Park Lane
1948 · Uncle Joshua Howard
movieWhile I Live
1947 · Nehemiah
movieThe Master of Bankdam
1947 · Simeon Crowther Sr.
movieThis Man Is Mine
1946 · Philip Ferguson
movieJohnny Frenchman
1945 · Net Pomeroy
movieLove Story
1944 · Tom Tanner
movieThe Halfway House
1944 · Capt. Meadows
movieThey Met in the Dark
1943 · Christopher Child
movieUndercover
1943 · Kossan Petrovitch
Old Iron
movieOld Iron
1938 · Sir Henry Woodstock, Director, Producer
movieCrackerjack
1938 · Jack Drake
Second Best Bed
movieSecond Best Bed
1938 · Victor Garnett, Director
movieStrange Boarders
1938 · Tommy Blythe
For Valour
movieFor Valour
1937 · Doubleday, Director
movieDishonour Bright
1936 · Stephen Champion, Director
moviePot Luck
1936 · , Director
Foreign Affaires
movieForeign Affaires
1935 · Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore, Director
movieStormy Weather
1935 · Sir Duncan Craggs, Director
movieMe and Marlborough
1935 · John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
Fighting Stock
movieFighting Stock
1935 · Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley, Director
movieDirty Work
1934 · Director
movieLady in Danger
1934 · Richard Dexter, Director
movieA Cup of Kindness
1934 · Fred Tutt, Director
movieTurkey Time
1933 · Max Wheeler, Director
movieA Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 · Maj. George Bone, Director
Leave It to Smith
movieLeave It to Smith
1933 · Smith, Director
The Blarney Stone
movieThe Blarney Stone
1933 · Tim Fitzgerald, Director
movieThark
1932 · Sir Hector Benbow, Director
Leap Year
movieLeap Year
1932 · Sir Peter Trallion, Director
movieA Night Like This
1932 · Michael Mahoney, Director, Screenplay
movieTons of Money
1930 · Director
moviePlunder
1930 · Freddie Malone, Director
movieCanaries Sometimes Sing
1930 · Geoffrey Lymes, Director
On Approval
movieOn Approval
1930 · Duke of Bristol, Director
movieRookery Nook
1930 · Clive Popkiss, Director
movieTons of Money
1924 · Producer