Tom Walls
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 17, 1883
- Died
- November 27, 1949 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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Filmography
The Interrupted Journey
Movie · as Mr. Clayton
Maytime in Mayfair
Movie · as Inspector
Spring in Park Lane
Movie · as Uncle Joshua Howard
While I Live
Movie · as Nehemiah
The Master of Bankdam
Movie · as Simeon Crowther Sr.
This Man Is Mine
Movie · as Philip Ferguson
Johnny Frenchman
Movie · as Net Pomeroy
Love Story
Movie · as Tom Tanner
The Halfway House
Movie · as Capt. Meadows
They Met in the Dark
Movie · as Christopher Child
Undercover
Movie · as Kossan Petrovitch
Crackerjack
Movie · as Jack Drake
Strange Boarders
Movie · as Tommy Blythe
Second Best Bed
Movie · as Victor Garnett
Old Iron
Movie · as Sir Henry Woodstock
For Valour
Movie · as Doubleday
Dishonour Bright
Movie · as Stephen Champion
Pot Luck
Movie
Me and Marlborough
Movie · as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
Fighting Stock
Movie · as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley
Foreign Affaires
Movie · as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
Stormy Weather
Movie · as Sir Duncan Craggs
Lady in Danger
Movie · as Richard Dexter
A Cup of Kindness
Movie · as Fred Tutt
A Cuckoo in the Nest
Movie · as Maj. George Bone
Turkey Time
Movie · as Max Wheeler
Leave It to Smith
Movie · as Smith
The Blarney Stone
Movie · as Tim Fitzgerald
Leap Year
Movie · as Sir Peter Trallion
A Night Like This
Movie · as Michael Mahoney
Thark
Movie · as Sir Hector Benbow
On Approval
Movie · as Duke of Bristol
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Movie · as Geoffrey Lymes
Rookery Nook
Movie · as Clive Popkiss
Plunder
Movie · as Freddie Malone