Kay WalshFilmography

The Ruling Class

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of British society, based on a play by Peter Barnes. The film's irreverent tone is established with the disturbingly hilarious death of the thirteenth Earl of Gurney during a Read More

Connecting Rooms

Synopsis: This melodrama explores the relationship between tenants in a boarding house. Included are a street musician, an ex-school teacher, and an angry young man who brings chaos to their quiet lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Actors: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This melodrama is taken from a story by D.H. Lawrence. Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister Lucille (Harriet Harper) are two country girls who return home after attending a provincial school. Yvette is smitten by the sight of a handsome gypsy (Franco Nero). Her stern matriarchal grandmother (Fay Compton Read More

Scrooge

Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, Scrooge features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit "Thank You Read More

Taste of Excitement

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a painter finds himself entangled in a murder plot when he gets involved with a pretty girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Why Would Anyone Want to Kill a Nice Girl Like You?

Synopsis: Americans in 1968 seemed to prefer long, campy film titles. Thus it was that the British Taste of Excitement was rechristened Why Would Anyone Want to Kill a Nice Girl Like You? The girl in question is Jane Kerrell (Eva Rienzi), who is somehow involved in an assassination plot. The hero, artist Read More

A Study in Terror

Actors: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley

Synopsis: In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack the Ripper in this well-made and exciting mystery produced, written and directed by James Hill. In this adaptation of the popular character created by Sir Arthur Conan Read More

The Witches

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Synopsis: This film was a pet project of Joan Fontaine, based on a novel by Peter Curtis. It was her last feature film. Fontaine stars as teacher Gwen Mayfield, who is in charge of a missionary school in Africa. A witch doctor puts a curse on her, and she has a nervous breakdown. Returning to England, she Read More

He Who Rides a Tiger

Actors: Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers, Kay Walsh, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Tom Bell stars in this tight little British thriller as a mercurial cat burglar. So long as things are going his way, Bell is calm and collected. Let anything upset his equilibrium, and he's an accident waiting to happen. Bell's one chance at redemption is his romance with pretty social-worker Judi Dench Read More

Contest Girl

Actors: Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of what happens in the film is what the average viewer has suspected all along. The lovely and graceful British leading lady Janette Scott stars as an ambitious typist who enters the "Miss Globe" Read More

Bikini Paradise

Synopsis: Mission to Paradise is a British equivalent to those frolicsome female skinfests often seen on the USA network's Up All Night. British military officers Kieron Moore and John Baer are shipwrecked while on a reconnaissance mission. They soon discover to their delight that the island is Read More

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he is the model of upstanding citizenship and loyalty to an oppressive British government. But he is also a notorious smuggler who uses his ill-gotten gains to benefit his Read More

Circus World

Actors: John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte

Synopsis: Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for the big names. John Wayne stars as circus owner Matt Masters, who takes his show to Europe hoping to save it from financial ruin. Accompanying Matt, is young Toni (Claudia Cardinale Read More

80,000 Suspects

Actors: Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if he hasn't got enough trouble on his hands, Johnson must contend with his failing marriage to Claire Bloom. Read More

Reach for Glory

Actors: Michael Anderson, Jr., Martin Tomlinson, Oliver Grimm, Harry Andrews, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: John Rae's novel The Custard Boys became this World War II drama from British documentary filmmaker Philip Leacock. Martin Tomlinson stars as John Curlew, a troubled teenager who is part of a gang of London boys evacuated to a small English coastal town during World War II. Desperate to join the Read More

The L-Shaped Room

Actors: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Anthony Booth, Brock Peters, Patricia Phoenix, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage

Synopsis: Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl. Arranging for an abortion (illegal at that time), she takes up residence in a ramshackle British boarding house where most of the other residents are also outcasts of society. Many Read More

Lunch Hour

Synopsis: When a junior executive organizes a romantic encounter with a designer everything falls about creating this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Spy

Synopsis: The wife of Captain Morgan (William Kendall) is missing, and private detective Henry Frute (Eric Barker) is hired to find her. Morgan suspects that his wife has been unfaithful, and that she has run off with her lover. Actually, he turns out to be half right; finally catching up with Mrs. Morgan (Kay Walsh Read More

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog

Actors: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Kay Walsh, Andrew Cruickshank

Synopsis: Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the Disney version stars Alex McKenzie as the shepherd Old Jock, the owner of a loyal Read More

Tunes of Glory

Actors: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York

Synopsis: Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a regiment until his replacement, Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives. Sinclair Read More

The Horse's Mouth

Actors: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Mike Morgan, Renee Houston, Robert Coote

Synopsis: The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to starring in the film. Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is an aging artist with a reputation as a genius, though he lives an impoverished life. Jimson has reached the point Read More

Now and Forever

Actors: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner, Pamela Brown

Synopsis: Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon Grey play Janette Grant and Mike Pritchard, who fall in love despite the objections of Janette's wealthy parents. Realizing that they will never be permitted to marry Read More

Cast a Dark Shadow

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne), hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to Read More

Lease of Life

Actors: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott, Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen by Eric Ambler, the story is set in a small rural community, where William Thorn (Donat) serves as parson. Upon learning that he has only a year to live, Thorn begins to see Read More

The Rainbow Jacket

Actors: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred from racing. Although he himself can no longer race, the jockey decides to live his dreams through Georgie Crain, who becomes his youthful protege. Sam teaches George all he Read More

Young Bess

Actors: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of England's eventual Queen Elizabeth I. It's told in flashback style, starting with the horrible day when King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) sends away the future queen, young Read More

The Stranger in Between

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: If the plot of the 1993 Kevin Costner film A Perfect World seemed vaguely familiar, perhaps it's because it bears a more than passing resemblance to the British-made 1952 thriller The Hunted (U.S. title: Stranger in Between). Dirk Bogarde stars in this emotional melodrama as an escaped murderer Read More

Tonight at 8:30

Actors: Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name. Several rotating playlets were presented in the original Tonight at 8:30, most of them starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. The film version utilizes Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

Encore

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt, Kay Walsh, Glynis Johns, Charles Victor, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: The producers of Quartet and Trio concluded their cycle with this omnibus film, which features three stories based, as in the previous film, on tales by W. Somerset Maugham. "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns Tom Ramsey (Nigel Patrick), a fiscally unstable young man who is constantly borrowing Read More

Stage Fright

Actors: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Todd, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre world. On the lam from the police, Richard Todd takes refuge in the home of his former girlfriend, RADA student Jane Wyman. Todd has been spotted fleeing the scene of a murder Read More

Last Holiday

Actors: Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Coco Aslan, Jean Colin

Synopsis: Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He withdraws all his savings from the bank and heads to a posh hotel. Here he makes more contacts and opens more professional doors than he'd ever done before, thanks to his Read More

The Magnet

Actors: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson

Synopsis: This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows Fox and his companions at play, aimlessly but enjoyably wandering about their neighborhood in search of adventure. Eventually the boy finds a discarded magnet, believing it Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by Read More

The October Man

Actors: Adrianne Allen, John Mills, Felix Aylmer, Joan Greenwood, George Benson, Edward Chapman, Esme Beringer, Joyce Carey, Kay Walsh, John Boxer

Synopsis: Adapted by Eric Ambler from his own novel, The October Man centers around Jim Ackland (played by John Mills), who has been involved in a terrible accident that killed a friend's daughter and has given Ackland a brain injury. Despondent after his release from the hospital, Ackland moves into a Read More

Vice Versa

Synopsis: Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very end. Anthony Newley plays the funloving son of stuffy stockbroker Roger Livesy. Father and son come into possession of a magic stone, and place a wish upon it. The result Read More

Great Expectations

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations Read More

This Happy Breed

Actors: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd celebrated the "higher orders" in Cavalcade. The film begins just after World War I. Middle-class Londoner Robert Newton hopes to improve his family's lot by moving them into a Read More

In Which We Serve

Actors: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy Read More

The Second Mr. Bush

Actors: Wallace Evennett, Evelyn Roberts, Kay Walsh, Barbara Everest

Synopsis: In this rather theatrical comedy, a millionaire and a starving author exchange places. The beleaguered millionaire does this so he can find a little peace and quiet. The ersatz millionaire goes to a boarding house where he finds moochers at every turn. Meanwhile the real millionaire's wife throws Read More

The Chinese Den

Synopsis: This is a remake of Chinese Bungalow, which came out in 1930. A Chinese banker gets revenge when his wife, an Englishwoman, has an affair with an English plantation manager. After he gets his revenge, he changes his mind and decides that the one he really desires is his wife's sister. Alas, his Read More

The Mysterious Mr. Reeder

Actors: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, George Curzon, John Warwick

Synopsis: Will Fyffe makes another appearance as Mr. Reeder, the seemingly absent-minded Scotland Yard sleuth created by Edgar Wallace. This time, the canny Reeder is hot on the trail of a counterfeiting gang. In his own disshevelled fashion, he puts the criminals off guard long enough to swoop in for the Read More

The Chinese Bungalow

Actors: Paul Lukas, Jane Baxter, Kay Walsh, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The Marion Osmond-James Corbett stage melodrama The Chinese Bungalow was filmed three times over a thirty-year period. The plot involves a wealthy mandarin named Yuan Sing, who marries a British woman and lives to regret it. The climax is pure melodrama, with Yuan Sing hatching a plot to do away Read More

All at Sea

Synopsis: When a factory worker is sent off to deliver a message, he inadvertently gets enrolled in the navy. His bumblings take him far and wide in the service of the Royal Crown. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sons of the Sea

Actors: Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Simon Lack, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Originally released in England by British Consolidated, Sons of the Sea was the last film to be distributed in America by Grand National Pictures. Generally cast in villainous roles, Leslie Banks plays the film's true-blue hero Captain Hyde. Alas, Hyde's young son Philip (Simon Lack), though a Read More

The Missing People

Actors: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, Lyn Harding, Ronald Shiner, Patricia Roc

Synopsis: Long after the company went out of business in the US, Grand National Pictures thrived in England, turning out such bread-and-butter features as The Missing People. Scottish comedian Will Fyffe once again plays Mr. Reeder, the seemingly bucolic Scotland Yard detective who's a lot shrewder than he Read More

The Middle Watch

Synopsis: In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two glamorous women are still aboard after they set sail and cannot turn back. To protect them, and himself, he hides the unwilling stowaways in his quarters. Unfortunately, they are Read More

I See Ice

Actors: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfeld, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the misadventures of a prop man (George Formby) for a travelling ice-skating troupe. Inventing a new sort of candid camera in his spare time, our hero gets into a passel of trouble when Read More

Meet Mr. Penny

Synopsis: In 1954 there was Godzilla, the lizard transformed by radiation, and in 1959, the British gave us Behemoth, the Sea Monster, Godzilla's Anglo, radiated cousin. Now there is the "man of steel" in this undistinguished, "B"-grade, sci-fi melodrama that was the last film directed by Allan Dwan. The Read More

The Luck of the Irish

Actors: Richard Hayward, Kay Walsh, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: Leading man Richard Hayward took no chances in Luck of the Irish, serving as the film's co-producer with former Paramount talent scout Donovan Pedelty (who also directed). Filmed in its entirety in Northern Ireland, the film utilizes the considerable talents of the Belfast Repertory Theater. Read More

The Last Adventurers

Synopsis: In this British adventure, a shipwrecked fellow is saved by the captain of another ship. While aboard, the survivor falls in love with the captains daughter. The unlucky fellow finds himself shipwrecked a second time. Once again, he is saved by the captain who also manages to save his brother and Read More

Keep Fit

Synopsis: In this comedy, a scrawny barber must compete with a muscle bound thug for the love of a manicurist. Naturally the manicurist is most attracted to the brute until the barber can prove that he is a crook. The two then duke it out in the boxing ring. Later it is the weakling who gets the girl. Read More

The Secret of Stamboul

Actors: Valerie Hobson, Frank Vosper, James Mason, Peter Haddon, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: In this actioner, two guards lose their jobs after they start a fight with a lascivious Arab prince who tries to seduce one of their girl friends. Fortunately, the girl friend's father is thankful and gives her love a job managing one of his tobacco warehouses in Turkey. Unfortunately, he meets a Read More

If I Were Rich

Synopsis: When a socialist barber inherits a royal title, he adapts his political opinions in this political and social satire. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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