John Longden
Birthday: Born in 1900-11-11 in West Indies
Deathday: 1971-05-26
John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.
TV Credits
The Count of Monte Cristo
Character:
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC prod...
Interpol Calling
Character: Lord Ruskington
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: The Abbot
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of William Tell
Character:
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Archbishop
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Ned
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Count Leger
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir Gyles of Wren
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Lord Blackstone
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Chambertin
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Walter Fitzurse
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Wulfric
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Tailor
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir Walter De Lys
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Hodges
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
Man from Interpol
Character: Mercer
Anthony Smith, an agent based at Britain's Interpol Division at Scotland Yard, takes on international assignments dealing with murderers, drug smugglers and slave runners....
Richard the Lionheart
Character: Sir Thomas
A kid-friendly take on the exploits of King Richard the Lion Heart, from his participation in the Crusades, to his capture in Austria, to his final return to England....
Man from Interpol
Character: Superintendent Mercer
Anthony Smith, an agent based at Britain's Interpol Division at Scotland Yard, takes on international assignments dealing with murderers, drug smugglers and slave runners....
Movie Credits
Blackmail
Character: Detective Frank Webber
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment....
Young and Innocent
Character: Det. Insp. Kent
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort....
Alias John Preston
Character: Richard Sandford
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions....
Quatermass 2
Character: Chief Inspector Lomax
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth....
Juno and the Paycock
Character: Charles Bentham
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds....
The Skin Game
Character: Charles Hornblower
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village....
Contraband
Character: Passport officer
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies....
The Gaunt Stranger
Character: Inspector Bliss
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'....
The Last Post
Character: David / Martin
'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)...
The Glad Eye
Character: Floquet
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)...
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Character: Mortimer Digby
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon....
So Evil, So Young
Character:
A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden....
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Character: Tod Jenkins
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore....
Dangerous Cargo
Character: Worthington
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it....
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: Colonel O'Sullivan
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain....
A Matter of Life and Death
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl....
Jamaica Inn
Character: Captain Johnson (uncredited)
In coastal Cornwall, England during the early 19th century, a young woman arriving there to visit her aunt discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals that arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit....
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Raven (uncredited)
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life....
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Character: Jeremy Meraulton
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs....
The Last Load
Character:
David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits....
Q Planes
Character: John Peters, a Pilot
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all....
The Flame of Love
Character: Lieutenant Boris Boriskoff
A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades....
Innocent Sinners
Character: Admiral
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church....
Thoroughbred
Character: Bill Peel
Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup....
Elstree Calling
Character: Himself
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself)....
Hindle Wakes
Character: Boyfriend
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play....
The Silence of Dean Maitland
Character: Dean Maitland
Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career. The Dean denies responsibility for both the pregnancy of his lover Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), and the death of her father, whom it turns out was enraged at the Dean's behaviour, attacked him and was killed in a fall. His friend, Dr. Everard (John Warwick), is found guilty of the death on false evidence, and Maitland allows him to suffer ...
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman....
Born Lucky
Character: Frank Dale
A humble girl's rise to fame....
Rynox
Character: Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik
Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night.......
Jennifer Hale
Character: Police Inspector Merton
Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her....
Piccadilly
Character: Man from China (uncredited)
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act....
Pool of London
Character: DI Williams
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
The Black Widow
Character: Mr. Kemp
Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by a car he stops to see if he can help. What he gets for his efforts is a vicious belt to the head from a lead cosh. He is then relieved of his wallet and his car. Several minutes later having somewhat recovered, he staggers to a nearby farmhouse and collapses....
Tower of Terror
Character: Commander
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness......
Children of Chance
Character: Jeffrey
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!...
Two Worlds
Character: Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter....
Two Crowded Hours
Character: Harry Fielding
A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself....
The Wickham Mystery
Character: Harry Crawford
'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)...
Murder on the Second Floor
Character: Hugh Bromilow
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......
Atlantic
Character: Lanchester
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into ...
Unpublished Story
Character: Metcalf
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings....
Death by Design
Character: Inspector Slade
Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?...
Palais De Danse
Character: No. 1
The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer...
The Lion Has Wings
Character: Unnamed Character
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis....
The Magic Box
Character: Speaker in Connaught Rooms
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved....
Frozen Alive
Character: Prof. Hubbard
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect....
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Character: Ground Officer (uncredited)
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians....
The Silver Fleet
Character: Jost Meertens
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first, he collaborates with the Germans as it is the easiest course. Later, a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Germans without endangering those around him?...
The Man Who Finally Died
Character: Munch
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play....
The Elusive Pimpernel
Character: The Abbot
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine....
The Ship That Died of Shame
Character: Detective
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling....
You Know What Sailors Are
Character:
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Anna Karenina
Character: Gen. Serpuhousky
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet....
The Flight Commander
Character: Ivan
In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot....
Ordeal by Fire
Character: De La Fayette
The biggest wildfire in North American history is brought to life, revealing what it means to us today, when the people of America are still figuring out how their federal government should manage and protect federal lands. It also explores how 21st century frontier technologies and people are coping with each other and with the ancient cycles of fire in a harsh yet beautiful land....
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Egeus
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night....