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Soho black marketeers frame a former RAF pilot for murder, forcing him to go on the run until he can exact revenge on them. Thriller, starring Trevor Howard, Sally Gray and Griffith Jones
1947
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Movie/Drama
Thriller
Cast & Crew
Trevor Howard
(Actor)
Rene Ray
(Actor)
Sally Gray
(Actor)
Griffith Jones
(Actor)
Alberto Cavalcanti
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Trevor Howard
(Actor)
Born:
September 29, 1913
in
Kent
Best Known For:
Brief Encounter.
Early-life:
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Kent on September 29, 1913. He was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He played a number of roles on the West End stage before being called up into the Army Signal Corps in 1940. He was discharged from service in 1943 for mental instability.
Career:
Howard had small roles in the films The Way Ahead (1944) and The Way to the Stars (1945) before his big break in 1945, playing the stoic Dr Alec Harvey in David Lean's Brief Encounter. He went on to have an acclaimed film career, starring in The Third Man (1949), Outcast of the Islands (1951), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), The Key (1958), Sons and Lovers (1960), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Rawlinson End (1980). He died on January 7, 1988 at the age of 74.
Quote:
"We don't have the Method School of acting in England. We simply read the script, let it seep in, then go put on whiskers - and do it."
Trivia:
He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Received an Academy Award nomination for Sons and Lovers. He won a Primetime Emmy for The Invincible Mr Disraeli.
Rene Ray
(Actor)
Sally Gray
(Actor)
Griffith Jones
(Actor)
Alberto Cavalcanti
(Director)
