Robert Morley

Robert Morley

May 26, 1908 · 118 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley a…

Known For

39 titles
1
The African Queen

The African Queen

1952 · 1h 45m · Movie

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

7.7
2
Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · 2h 55m · Movie

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

6.7
3
The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper

1981 · 1h 37m · Movie

Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.

7.1
4
Theater of Blood

Theater of Blood

1973 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

7.1
5
Topkapi

Topkapi

1964 · 2h 0m · Movie

A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.

6.9
6
Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

1953 · 1h 29m · Movie

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...

6.4
7
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

1965 · 2h 18m · Movie

Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and c...

7.0
8
Cromwell

Cromwell

1970 · 2h 19m · Movie

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.

7.0
9
Murder at the Gallop

Murder at the Gallop

1963 · 1h 21m · Movie

When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.

7.2
10
High Road to China

High Road to China

1983 · 1h 45m · Movie

During WW1, alcoholic American biplane pilot Patrick O'Malley is hired by spoiled daughter Eve of industrialist Bradley Tozer to locate her father, who disappeared somewhere in Asia.

6.0
11
The Loved One

The Loved One

1965 · 2h 2m · Movie

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.

6.9
12
Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

1938 · 2h 29m · Movie

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

7.3
13
Hour of Glory

Hour of Glory

1949 · 1h 46m · Movie

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

7.1
14
Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

1979 · 1h 56m · Movie

To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.

5.8
15
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978 · 1h 52m · Movie

European chefs are being killed in the same ways that their special dishes are prepared. Pastry chef Natasha O'Brien is suspected, as is her ex-husband Robby Ross, a fast-food franchiser looking for chefs to endorse his omelet shops.

6.4
16
The Road to Hong Kong

The Road to Hong Kong

1962 · 1h 31m · Movie

Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.

6.1
17
A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

1965 · 1h 35m · Movie

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

6.5
18
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

1965 · 2h 0m · Movie

During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

5.8
19
The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House

1963 · 1h 26m · Movie

In England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a stormy night at the mysterious and deadly mansion of a client's family.

5.4
20
Hot Millions

Hot Millions

1968 · 1h 46m · Movie

Paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

6.8
21
Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven

1967 · 1h 39m · Movie

Seven portraits of different types of women.

5.8
22
The Alphabet Murders

The Alphabet Murders

1965 · 1h 30m · Movie

Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

5.3
23
Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell

1954 · 1h 53m · Movie

In 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.

6.4
24
Libel

Libel

1959 · 1h 40m · Movie

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

7.2
25
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

1979 · 1h 55m · Movie

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

6.1
26
The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young

1954 · 1h 40m · Movie

In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.

6.7
27
Major Barbara

Major Barbara

1941 · 2h 1m · Movie

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.

6.8
28
The Lady and the Highwayman

The Lady and the Highwayman

1988 · 1h 30m · Movie

Swashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II.

5.5
29
London Affair

London Affair

1970 · 1h 38m · Movie

A 38-year-old American writer of pornographic novels discovers the difficulties of being married to a 16-year-old British schoolgirl.

5.3
30
Way... Way Out

Way... Way Out

1966 · 1h 41m · Movie

In a futuristic world, the USA decides to send a married couple of astronauts to its moon base in order to prevent any improper contact with the Soviet female cosmonauts manning the USSR moon base.

5.3
31
Agent 8 3/4

Agent 8 3/4

1964 · 1h 38m · Movie

Czech-speaking, out-of-work Briton Nicholas Whistler is unwittingly sent on a secret mission to Prague by British Intelligence.

6.1
32
Wonderful to Be Young!

Wonderful to Be Young!

1961 · 1h 32m · Movie

Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help rais...

5.8
33
Song of Norway

Song of Norway

1970 · 2h 18m · Movie

Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics.

4.2
34
Ladies Who Do

Ladies Who Do

1963 · 1h 25m · Movie

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

6.8
35
The Trygon Factor

The Trygon Factor

1966 · 1h 28m · Movie

Scotland Yard Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigates the suspicious looking Emberday estate where the Emberday family and an order of nuns reside.

5.8
36
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1974 · 1h 40m · Movie

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

6.1