Tom Walls
Age: 66 | From: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1883-02-18 14:17:45
Death: 1949-11-27 14:17:45
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 35
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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 actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
Most Famous Work
Dirty Work
(1934) Director
A Cuckoo in the Nest
(1933) Director
Stormy Weather
(1935) Director
Foreign Affaires
(1935) Director
For Valour
(1937) Director
Plunder
(1931) Director
Lady in Danger
(1934) Director
Canaries Sometimes Sing
(1930) DirectorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Mr. Clayton | |
| Inspector | ||
| 1948 | Uncle Joshua Howard | |
| 1947 | Nehemiah | |
| Simeon Crowther Sr. | ||
| 1946 | Philip Ferguson | |
| 1945 | Net Pomeroy | |
| 1944 | Tom Tanner | |
| Capt. Meadows | ||
| 1943 | Christopher Child | |
| Kossan Petrovitch | ||
| 1938 | Jack Drake | |
| Victor Garnett | ||
| Tommy Blythe | ||
| 1937 | Doubleday | |
| 1936 | Stephen Champion | |
| N/A | ||
| 1935 | Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore | |
| N/A | ||
| John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough | ||
| Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley | ||
| 1934 | Richard Dexter | |
| Fred Tutt | ||
| 1933 | Max Wheeler | |
| Maj. George Bone | ||
| Smith | ||
| Tim Fitzgerald | ||
| 1932 | Sir Hector Benbow | |
| Sir Peter Trallion | ||
| Michael Mahoney | ||
| 1930 | Freddie Malone | |
| Geoffrey Lymes | ||
| Duke of Bristol | ||
| Clive Popkiss | ||
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Directing
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| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1932 | Screenplay | |
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Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1924 | Producer | |
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