Edgar Lustgarten
Birthday: Born in 1907-05-03 in Manchester, England, UK
Deathday: 1978-12-15
TV Credits
The Scales of Justice
Character: Self - Introduces
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Mert...
Movie Credits
The Silent Witness
Character: Self
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears...
Passenger to Tokyo
Character: Self
A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victims body to Tokyo in a trunk....
The Missing Man
Character: Self
Through a mother's terrible dream, her son's body is discovered in France and his killer is arrested in England....
The Blazing Caravan
Character: Self
The body of a travelling salesman is found underneath a burning caravan, and Scotland Yard is convinced it's murder! But is everything as it seems?...
Late Night Final
Character: Self
Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared....
The Dark Stairway
Character: Self
A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself accused of the murder...
The Candlelight Murder
Character: Self
A Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of an old recluse....
The Case of the River Morgue
Character: Self
Scotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water....
Fatal Journey
Character: Self
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the connection between a man who suffers from amnesia, a blackmailer and murder....
The Dover Road Mystery
Character: Host
A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars....
The Drayton Case
Character: Self: Narrator
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman....
Inside Information
Character:
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man....
The Case of The Smiling Widow
Character: Presenter
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger....