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Cyril Thornton

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1905-08-06
New York, USA

Known For & Full Filmography24 Titles

#1Waterloo Bridge

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Sergeant (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
DramaRomanceWar

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

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#2The Thin Man

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Tanner

7.5 / 10
ComedyMysteryCrime

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

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#3The Invisible Man Returns

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Policeman (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

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#4The Raven

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Dr. Vollin's Butler (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
HorrorCrime

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

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#5The Prisoner of Shark Island

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Michael O'Laughlin (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaHistory

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

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#6When the Daltons Rode

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as First Cronie

6.2 / 10
Western

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

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#7Mysterious Mr. Moto

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Phony Policeman

6.2 / 10
MysteryThrillerCrime

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

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#8Tower of London

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Prisoner

6.1 / 10
DramaHistoryHorror

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

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#9This Above All

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Station Master

6.8 / 10
DramaRomanceWar

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

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#10The Man They Could Not Hang

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Senior Butler (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Sci-FiHorrorCrime

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

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#11A Dispatch from Reuters

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Clerk (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaHistory

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

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#12Eagle Squadron

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Binocular Observer

7.0 / 10
RomanceWarDrama

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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#13The Case of the Black Parrot

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Rogers

5.7 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.

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#14We Are Not Alone

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Man

6.9 / 10
CrimeDrama

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

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#15The White Angel

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Sick Woman's Husband (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

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#16Alias Boston Blackie

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Meggs - Manleder's Chauffeur (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Mystery

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

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#17Name the Woman

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Reynolds

9.0 / 10
Mystery

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.

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#18The Lone Wolf Strikes

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Frederick

6.8 / 10
ComedyThrillerRomance

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

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#19Man About Town

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Waiter (uncredited)

4.5 / 10
ComedyMusic

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

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#20The Perfect Gentleman

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Workman in Pub (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

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#21Double Danger

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Thornton - Theron's majordomo (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.

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#22Among the Missing

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Brennan

6.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

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#23Confirm or Deny

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Refugee

4.8 / 10
WarDrama

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.

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#24The Glass Alibi

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Riggs

4.2 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.

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