Lewis Casson
Know for: Acting
Born: 1875-10-26
Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Also know as:
Midshipman Easy (1935)
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...
Calling the Tune (1936)
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and...
Little Friend (1934)
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
South Riding (1938)
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...
Crime on the Hill (1933)
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...
The Winslow Boy (1948)
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea...
Victoria the Great (1937)
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule...
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Uncle Vanya (1963)
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Rhodes of Africa (1936)
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter...
Escape! (1930)
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy...