About

Known credits:
58
Birthday:
1883-02-17
Place of birth:
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Tom Walls

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1949 The Interrupted Journey Actor Mr. Clayton 59
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1949 Maytime in Mayfair Actor Inspector 59
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1948 Spring in Park Lane Actor Uncle Joshua Howard 59
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1947 While I Live Actor Nehemiah 59
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1947 The Master of Bankdam Actor Simeon Crowther Sr. 59
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1946 This Man Is Mine Actor Philip Ferguson N/A
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1945 Johnny Frenchman Actor Net Pomeroy 59
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1944 Love Story Actor Tom Tanner 59
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1944 The Halfway House Actor Capt. Meadows 59
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1943 They Met in the Dark Actor Christopher Child 59
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1943 Undercover Actor Kossan Petrovitch 59
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1938 Crackerjack Actor Jack Drake 59
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1938 Second Best Bed Actor Victor Garnett 59
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1938 Strange Boarders Actor Tommy Blythe N/A
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1937 For Valour Actor Doubleday N/A
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1936 Dishonour Bright Actor Stephen Champion N/A
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1936 Pot Luck Actor N/A
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1935 Foreign Affaires Actor Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore N/A
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1935 Stormy Weather Actor N/A
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1935 Me and Marlborough Actor John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough 58
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1935 Fighting Stock Actor Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley N/A
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1934 Lady in Danger Actor Richard Dexter 59
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1934 A Cup of Kindness Actor Fred Tutt N/A
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1933 Turkey Time Actor Max Wheeler N/A
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1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest Actor Maj. George Bone 58
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1933 Leave It to Smith Actor Smith N/A
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1933 The Blarney Stone Actor Tim Fitzgerald N/A
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1932 Thark Actor Sir Hector Benbow N/A
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1932 Leap Year Actor Sir Peter Trallion N/A
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1932 A Night Like This Actor Michael Mahoney N/A
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1930 Plunder Actor Freddie Malone N/A
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1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing Actor Geoffrey Lymes N/A
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1930 On Approval Actor Duke of Bristol N/A
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1930 Rookery Nook Actor Clive Popkiss N/A
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Directing
1938 Second Best Bed Directing Director 59
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1937 For Valour Directing Director N/A
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1936 Dishonour Bright Directing Director N/A
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1936 Pot Luck Directing Director N/A
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1935 Foreign Affaires Directing Director N/A
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1935 Stormy Weather Directing Director N/A
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1935 Fighting Stock Directing Director N/A
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1934 Dirty Work Directing Director N/A
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1934 Lady in Danger Directing Director 59
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1934 A Cup of Kindness Directing Director N/A
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1933 Turkey Time Directing Director N/A
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1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest Directing Director 58
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1933 Leave It to Smith Directing Director N/A
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1933 The Blarney Stone Directing Director N/A
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1932 Thark Directing Director N/A
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1932 Leap Year Directing Director N/A
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1932 A Night Like This Directing Director N/A
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1930 Tons of Money Directing Director N/A
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1930 Plunder Directing Director N/A
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1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing Directing Director N/A
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1930 On Approval Directing Director N/A
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1930 Rookery Nook Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1932 A Night Like This Writing Screenplay N/A
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Production
1924 Tons of Money Production Producer N/A
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