John Slater
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3215 |
| Birthday | 1916-08-22 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1949
Passport to Pimlico
6.888/98
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part o...
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Passport to Pimlico
1953
The Flanagan Boy
6/19
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fight...
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The Flanagan Boy
1942
Went the Day Well?
7.16/78
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...
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Went the Day Well?
1949
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 10
0/0
The 22nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, unusually featuring a single article: 'Replanning a Coalfield'.
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Mining Review 2nd Year No. 10
1954
Mining Review 7th Year No. 8
0/0
The 80th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Anthracite Field', 'Time Out', 'Bowhill On Top' and 'Ideas Man'.
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Mining Review 7th Year No. 8
1957
Mining Review 10th Year No. 8
0/0
The 118th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the article 'Hungarians in Britain', 'Double Dutch', 'Pulsed Infusion' and 'Songs...
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Mining Review 10th Year No. 8
1948
Against the Wind
6.4/15
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to res...
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Against the Wind
1953
Operation Malaya
0/0
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
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Operation Malaya
1954
The Million Pound Note
6.921/80
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...
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The Million Pound Note
1947
It Always Rains on Sunday
6.613/71
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
1948
Escape
5.676/17
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
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Escape
1948
Noose
5.265/17
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...
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Noose
1953
The Long Memory
6.7/20
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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The Long Memory
1958
Violent Playground
7.174/23
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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Violent Playground
1942
Uncensored
9/1
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
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Uncensored
1944
For Those in Peril
6.111/9
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking the...
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For Those in Peril
1952
The Promise
3.7/3
A much loved Prison Missioner has died. His replacement struggles to live up to his predecessor's saintly reputation until he receives inspiration fro...
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The Promise
1953
Strange Stories
0/0
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on telev...
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Strange Stories
1963
A Place to Go
6.444/9
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-cl...
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A Place to Go
1950
Prelude to Fame
6.833/3
While holidaying in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician, becomes friendly with young Guido, and...
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Prelude to Fame
1944
A Canterbury Tale
6.897/126
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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A Canterbury Tale
1943
Undercover
6.063/8
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...
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Undercover
1952
The Ringer
6/7
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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The Ringer
1945
Murder in Reverse?
7.2/5
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an ol...
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Murder in Reverse?
1952
The Faithful City
10/1
The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphan...
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The Faithful City
1954
John Wesley
4.5/2
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film fol...
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John Wesley
1956
Johnny, You're Wanted
7/2
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, b...
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Johnny, You're Wanted
1963
Mining Review 16th Year No. 6
0/0
The 186th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the article 'A story from South Wales', about the closure of unproductive pits and...
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Mining Review 16th Year No. 6
1961
Nothing Barred
7/3
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and...
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Nothing Barred
1955
Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?
0/0
The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."
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Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?
1950
Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5
0/0
Another edition of the industry cinemagazine, featuring three film articles. Pipeline to Pimlico: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local...
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Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5
1961
Three on a Spree
6.4/5
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
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Three on a Spree
1957
Thark
0/0
As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush r...
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Thark
1951
The Third Visitor
6.286/7
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corp...
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The Third Visitor
1941
Shunter Black's Night Off
7/1
Short war time film about the daily activities of Shunter Trains in British Railway Yards and their importance and contribution to the war effort.
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Shunter Black's Night Off
1942
They Flew Alone
6.75/4
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro...
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They Flew Alone
1954
Star of India
4.375/8
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back t...
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Star of India
1941
The Common Touch
6.75/4
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want...
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The Common Touch
1941
Love on the Dole
5.875/16
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally c...
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Love on the Dole
1941
"Pimpernel" Smith
7.268/28
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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"Pimpernel" Smith
1943
Deadlock
5.5/4
A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.
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Deadlock
1942
Unpublished Story
6.5/7
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Unpublished Story
1959
Hot Summer Night
9/1
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfrie...
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Hot Summer Night
1943
Millions Like Us
5.633/15
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a fa...
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Millions Like Us
1945
I Live in Grosvenor Square
7.333/9
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean J...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
1943
The New Lot
8/1
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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The New Lot
1945
The Seventh Veil
6.644/45
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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The Seventh Veil
1945
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
0/0
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to ass...
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
1945
Read All About It
4.6/9
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of news...
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Read All About It
1960
The Night We Got the Bird
6.333/3
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Night We Got the Bird
1942
Our Film
0/0
A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of...
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Our Film
1942
The Young Mr. Pitt
6.167/9
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1966
The Yellow Hat
8/1
When an exclusive designer hat blows off the head of the milliner's assistant who borrowed it, the quest to recover it leads her to find love.
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The Yellow Hat
1957
The Devil's Pass
6/2
Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his father's...
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The Devil's Pass
1963
Giants of Steam
0/0
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson an...
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Giants of Steam
1942
Those Kids from Town
10/1
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Those Kids from Town
1943
We Dive at Dawn
6.426/27
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tige...
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We Dive at Dawn
1952
Night Call
5/1
Demonstrating the work of the British police force, based on actual incidents from the files of Brighton Borough Police, and illustrated through a cas...
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Night Call
1953
Dollars for Sale
3/2
Account of how Anglo-American police co-operation succeeds in tracking down forgers of $100 bills.
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